Malicious Package Affecting browserift 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-BROWSERIFT-455282
  • published24 Jul 2019
  • disclosed31 May 2019
  • creditnpm security

Introduced: 31 May 2019

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

How to fix?

Avoid using browserift altogether.

Overview

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

It contains malicious code as a preinstall script. It was a backdoor that opened a connection to a remote server and executed incoming commands on both Unix and Windows machines

CVSS Scores

version 3.1