Malicious Package Affecting blubird package, versions =3.5.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-BLUBIRD-174905
  • published5 Jun 2019
  • disclosed4 Jun 2019
  • creditnpm security

Introduced: 4 Jun 2019

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

How to fix?

Avoid using blubird altogether.

Overview

blubird is a malicious package.

The package is malware designed to take advantage of users making a mistake when typing the name of a module to install. Upon install the package attempts to start a cryptocurrency miner using coin-hive.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1