Malicious Package Affecting boogeyman 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-BOOGEYMAN-173686
  • published13 Feb 2019
  • disclosed31 Jul 2018
  • creditAdam Baldwin

Introduced: 31 Jul 2018

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

How to fix?

Avoid using boogeyman altogether.

Overview

boogeyman is a malicious package that would download a payload from pastebin.com, eval it to read ssh keys and the users .npmrc and send them to a private pastebin account.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1