Malicious Package Affecting capistrano-colors package, versions <=0.5.5
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Mature
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-CAPISTRANOCOLORS-460147
- published 22 Aug 2019
- disclosed 19 Aug 2019
- credit Kazuhiro Nishiyama
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.