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Malicious Package Affecting fallguys package, versions *

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Mature

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-FALLGUYS-608657
  • published 26 Aug 2020
  • disclosed 25 Aug 2020
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 25 Aug 2020

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How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the fallguys package.

Overview

fallguys is a malicious package. It contains malicious code that attempts to read local sensitive files and exfiltrate information through a Discord webhook. The code attempted to access the following paths available on Windows systems:

  • /AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data/Default/Local Storage/leveldb
  • /AppData/Roaming/Opera Software/Opera Stable/Local Storage/leveldb
  • /AppData/Local/Yandex/YandexBrowser/User Data/Default/Local Storage/leveldb
  • /AppData/Local/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/User Data/Default/Local Storage/leveldb
  • /AppData/Roaming/discord/Local Storage/leveldb

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

Recommended
10 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Changed
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High