Malicious Package Affecting eslint-scope package, versions =3.7.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ESLINTSCOPE-11120
  • published13 Jul 2018
  • disclosed12 Jul 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Jul 2018

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

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the eslint-scope package.

Overview

eslint-scope is an ECMAScript scope analyzer for ESLint

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Malicious Package. Version 3.7.2 was identified as malicious after a possible npm account takeover. During installation, the malicious code download code from pastebin.com, then executed it. It sent the contents of the user’s .npmrc file to the attacker, which typically contains access tokens for publishing to npm.

The malicious package versions have been unpublished from npm.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1