Malicious Package Affecting backend-engineering-test 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-BACKENDENGINEERINGTEST-8145534
  • published 2 Oct 2024
  • disclosed 2 Oct 2024
  • credit Unknown

Introduced: 2 Oct 2024

New Malicious CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-506 Open this link in a new tab
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the backend-engineering-test package.

Overview

backend-engineering-test is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that collects sensitive information about the victim and sends it to the attacker's remote server. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid organization, there is no connection between that organization and this package's authorship.

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
9.3 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Attack Requirements (AT)
    None
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Confidentiality (VC)
    High
  • Integrity (VI)
    High
  • Availability (VA)
    High
  • Confidentiality (SC)
    None
  • Integrity (SI)
    None
  • Availability (SA)
    None