Malicious Package Affecting ajax-cuuu 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-AJAXCUUU-3263691
  • published 1 Feb 2023
  • disclosed 1 Feb 2023
  • credit Sonatype Research Team

Introduced: 1 Feb 2023

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

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the ajax-cuuu package.

Overview

ajax-cuuu 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 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