Malicious Package Affecting active-support package, versions >=0.0.0
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.93% (83rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-ACTIVESUPPORT-22046
- published 9 Aug 2018
- disclosed 9 Aug 2018
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 9 Aug 2018
Malicious CVE-2018-3779 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
active-support is malicious and the recommendation is to stop using it and replace this gem with the official activesupport gem.
Overview
The active-support gem duplicates official activesupport code, but adds a compiled extension. This extension attempts to resolve a base64 encoded domain, then downloads a payload and execute it.