Malicious Package Affecting destroyer-of-worlds 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-DESTROYEROFWORLDS-174777
  • published23 May 2019
  • disclosed22 May 2019
  • creditAdam Baldwin

Introduced: 22 May 2019

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

How to fix?

Avoid using destroyer-of-worlds altogether.

Overview

destroyer-of-worlds is a malicious package.

The package contains a bash script that runs as a post-install script. The script delete system files and attempt to exhaust resources by creating a large file, a fork bomb and an endless loop. The script targets UNIX systems.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1