Malicious Package Affecting bowe 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-BOWE-174868
  • published2 Jun 2019
  • disclosed31 May 2019
  • creditNPM Security Team

Introduced: 31 May 2019

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

How to fix?

Avoid using bowe altogether.

Overview

bowe is not currently in use, but was formerly occupied by another package.

This package is malicious. It contains malicious code as a preinstall script. The package downloads a file from a remote server, executes it and opens a backdoor.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1