Malicious Package Affecting angluar-cli package, versions =0.0.1 =0.0.2 =0.0.3


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-ANGLUARCLI-174911
  • published 5 Jun 2019
  • disclosed 4 Jun 2019
  • credit npm security

Introduced: 4 Jun 2019

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

How to fix?

Avoid using angluar-cli altogether.

Overview

angluar-cli is a malicious package.

angluar-cli contains malicious code as a postinstall script. The package is malware designed to take advantage of users making a mistake when typing the name of a module to install. When installed the package attempts to remove files and stop processes related to McAfee antivirus on macOS.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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