Malicious Package Affecting ajex package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-AJEX-7435791
  • published10 Jul 2024
  • disclosed9 Jul 2024
  • creditPhylum Research Team

Introduced: 9 Jul 2024

Malicious CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-506  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the ajex package.

Overview

ajex is a malicious package. This package contains a trojanized version of jQuery. The malicious version extracts website form data and sends it to one of many URLs.For the malware to be triggered, a user must install one of the malicious packages, use the included trojanized jQuery file, and then invoke either the end function or the fadeTo function.

References

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1