Malicious Package Affecting event-stream package, versions =3.3.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-EVENTSTREAM-72638
  • published26 Nov 2018
  • disclosed20 Nov 2018
  • creditAyrton Sparling

Introduced: 20 Nov 2018

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

Overview

event-stream is a toolkit to make creating and working with streams easy.

Version 3.3.6 was hijacked via a child dependency, flatmap-stream, which was overtaken by a malicious actor. The attacker has injected the malicious package which was used in order to steal bitcoins from wallets.

You can read more about the malicious code on our blog

See the vulnerability at flatmap-stream for more information.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1