Malicious Package Affecting communication-identity package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-COMMUNICATIONIDENTITY-5747414
- published 29 Jun 2023
- disclosed 29 Jun 2023
- credit JFrog Security Research team
How to fix?
Avoid using all malicious instances of the communication-identity package.
Overview
communication-identity is a malicious package.
This instance of the communication-identity package contains malware and attempts to compromise users by adopting dependency confusion techniques. A dependency confusion attack is a type of supply chain attack where malicious software is inserted into the development process by replacing a legitimate software package with a malicious one.
Note: Users are exposed if they've installed the communication-identity package from public repositories. Installations of this package from private repositories or CDNs are likely safe to use.
This package contains malicious code that steals PII (Personally identifiable information) from the victim’s machine.
These spoofed packages have no relation to the company or project they are attempting to spoof, and are not published by them or associated with them in any way. Out of an abundance of caution, Snyk will mark any occurrence of the package as malicious, regardless of download source. Only the user can determine with certainty whether it is the intended package and can be safely ignored.