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Malicious Package Affecting kraken-api package, versions >=0.1.8 <1.0.0

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-KRAKENAPI-174898
  • published 4 Jun 2019
  • disclosed 3 Jun 2019
  • credit NPM Security
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Introduced: 3 Jun 2019

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How to fix?

Avoid using version 0.1.8 of kraken-api altogether.

Overview

kraken-api is a NodeJS Client Library for the Kraken (kraken.com) API

The package contains malicious code as a preinstall script. When installed, the package calls home to a Command and Control server to execute arbitrary commands.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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