Malicious Package Affecting commander-js 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-COMMANDERJS-73506
  • published9 Jan 2019
  • disclosed15 Jan 2019
  • creditVladimir Tikhonov

Introduced: 9 Jan 2019

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

How to fix?

Avoid using commander-js altogether.

Overview

commander-js is a Malicous Package.

This package is trying to mimic the real commander.js [ https://www.npmjs.com/package/commander]. It has a backdoor in postinstall script which downloads and evaluates the content of http://23.94.46.191/update.json (which currently doesn't contain anything malicious).

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CVSS Scores

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