Malicious Package Affecting ruby-bitcoin package, versions >=0.0.0


0.0
critical

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Mature

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-RUBYBITCOIN-1052071
  • published 17 Dec 2020
  • disclosed 17 Dec 2020
  • credit Sonatype

Introduced: 17 Dec 2020

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

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the ruby-bitcoin package.

Overview

ruby-bitcoin is a malicious package. Within version.rb, hidden obfuscated code is present which, on Windows systems, generates and runs a malicious VBScript the_Score.vb. Note: The code present in this package is slightly different to the malicious package pretty_color.

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