Homepage About Snyk

Malicious Package Affecting com.github.codingandcoding:mail-watcher-plugin Open this link in a new tab package, versions [0,]

0.0
critical

  • Exploit Maturity

    Mature

  • Attack Complexity

    Low

  • Confidentiality

    High

  • Integrity

    High

  • Availability

    High

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-JAVA-COMGITHUBCODINGANDCODING-1059414

  • published

    14 Jan 2021

  • disclosed

    13 Jan 2021

  • credit

    Sonatype Security Research Team

Report a new vulnerability Found a mistake?

Introduced: 13 Jan 2021

Malicious CWE-506 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Avoid using com.github.codingandcoding:mail-watcher-plugin altogether.

Overview

com.github.codingandcoding:mail-watcher-plugin is a malicious package.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Malicious Package. Inside the JAR, the backdoored code exists in the send() method of MailWatcherNotification.class which, once again, contains a different hardcoded C2 server.

References