Malicious Package Affecting yeoman-genrator package, versions =1.0.0 =3.1.1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Mature
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- published 2 Jun 2019
- disclosed 31 May 2019
- credit NPM Security Team
How to fix?
Avoid using yeoman-genrator
altogether.
Overview
yeoman-genrator is a malicious package.
It contains malicious code as a preinstall script. The package downloads a file from a remote server, executes it and opens a backdoor.