Malicious Package Affecting capistrano-colors package, versions <=0.5.5


0.0
critical

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Mature

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-CAPISTRANOCOLORS-460147
  • published 22 Aug 2019
  • disclosed 19 Aug 2019
  • credit Kazuhiro Nishiyama

Introduced: 19 Aug 2019

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

How to fix?

Avoid using capistrano-colors altogether.

Overview

capistrano-colors is a to colorize your capistrano output for better overview

Affected versions of this package contain malicious code. The library contained a backdoor which when executed would conduct hidden cryptocurrency mining operations inside an application.