Malicious Package Affecting yeoman-genrator package, versions =1.0.0 =3.1.1


0.0
critical

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Mature

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-YEOMANGENRATOR-174895
  • published 2 Jun 2019
  • disclosed 31 May 2019
  • credit NPM Security Team

Introduced: 31 May 2019

Malicious CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-506 Open this link in a new tab

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.