Malicious Package Affecting 254-shades-of-grey package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Mature

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-254SHADESOFGREY-3091030
  • published 30 Oct 2022
  • disclosed 28 Oct 2022
  • credit Aaron Linskens

Introduced: 28 Oct 2022

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

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the 254-shades-of-grey package.

Overview

254-shades-of-grey is a malicious package. This is a "dependency confusion" package, which means the package name is based on existing repositories, namespaces, or components, it aims to trick users into downloading the package which contains a malicious code.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
9.8 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High