Malicious Package Affecting colour-string package, versions =1.5.3 =1.0.0
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Exploit Maturity
Mature
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-COLOURSTRING-174850
- published 2 Jun 2019
- disclosed 31 May 2019
- credit NPM Security Team
How to fix?
Avoid using colour-string altogether.
Overview
colour-string is not currently in use, but was formerly occupied by another package. To avoid malicious use, npm is hanging on to the package name, but loosely, and we'll probably give it to you if you want it.
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.
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