Malicious Package Affecting event-stream package, versions =3.3.6
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-EVENTSTREAM-72638
- published 26 Nov 2018
- disclosed 20 Nov 2018
- credit Ayrton Sparling
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