Malicious Package Affecting eact package, versions *
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Exploit Maturity
Mature
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- published 14 May 2019
- disclosed 6 May 2019
- credit Nathan Doak
How to fix?
Avoid using eact altogether.
Overview
eact is a malicious package.
When installed through a typosquatting attack, the package will extract and upload information to a remote server including name of the downloaded package, name of the intended package, the Node version and whether the process was running as sudo.
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CVSS Scores
version 3.1