Malicious Package Affecting colorsss 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-COLORSSS-2422866
  • published 15 Mar 2022
  • disclosed 15 Mar 2022
  • credit Ax Sharma, Cody Nash, Juan Aguirre, Ali ElShakankiry

Introduced: 15 Mar 2022

Malicious CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-506 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the colorsss package.

Overview

colorsss is a malicious package. This package uses "typosquatting" to bait unaware users to install it. This package contains Discord token stealers and code that peeks into your web browser's leveldb files.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

9.6 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Changed
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High