Malicious Package Affecting cuffer-xor 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-CUFFERXOR-474519
  • published 27 Oct 2019
  • disclosed 25 Oct 2019
  • credit Microsoft Vulnerability Research

Introduced: 25 Oct 2019

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

How to fix?

Avoid using cuffer-xor altogether.

Overview

cuffer-xor is a malicious package.

The package targeted the Ethereum cryptocurrency and performed transactions to wallets not controlled by the user.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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