Malicious Package Affecting dictum.js package, versions >=1.0.5


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-DICTUMJS-450959
  • published 25 Jun 2019
  • disclosed 15 May 2019
  • credit npm security

Introduced: 15 May 2019

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

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the dictum.js package.

Overview

dictum.js is a package that creates automatic documentation of your NodeJS API endpoints.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Malicious Package. Version 1.0.5 of dictum.js contained malicious code. The code when executed in the browser would enumerate password, cvc, cardnumber fields from forms and send the extracted values to https://js-metrics.com/minjs.php?pl=

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
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