Malicious Package Affecting electorn 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-ELECTORN-1015404
  • published2 Oct 2020
  • disclosed1 Oct 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Oct 2020

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

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the electorn package.

Overview

electorn is a malicious package. Upon installation the package runs a preinstall script that writes a public comment on GitHub containing the following information:

  • IP and IP-based geolocation
  • home directory name
  • local username

The malicious package has been removed from the npm registry and the leaked content removed from GitHub.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1