Malicious Package Affecting is-buffer-validator package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Attacked

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ISBUFFERVALIDATOR-9403828
  • published13 Mar 2025
  • disclosed12 Mar 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Mar 2025

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

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the is-buffer-validator package.

Overview

is-buffer-validator is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code, and its content was removed from the official package manager. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid organization, there is no connection between that organization and this package authorship.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1