Malicious Package Affecting fontawessome 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-FONTAWESSOME-7435731
  • published 10 Jul 2024
  • disclosed 9 Jul 2024
  • credit Phylum Research Team

Introduced: 9 Jul 2024

Malicious CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-506 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the fontawessome package.

Overview

fontawessome is a malicious package. This package contains a trojanized version of jQuery. The malicious version extracts website form data and sends it to one of many URLs.For the malware to be triggered, a user must install one of the malicious packages, use the included trojanized jQuery file, and then invoke either the end function or the fadeTo function.

References

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
9.3 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Attack Requirements (AT)
    None
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Confidentiality (VC)
    High
  • Integrity (VI)
    High
  • Availability (VA)
    High
  • Confidentiality (SC)
    None
  • Integrity (SI)
    None
  • Availability (SA)
    None