Malicious Package Affecting reqest package, versions *


Severity

0.0
critical
0
10

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Mature

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-REQEST-174831
  • published 14 May 2019
  • disclosed 6 May 2019
  • credit Nathan Doak

Introduced: 6 May 2019

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

How to fix?

Avoid using reqest altogether.

Overview

reqest is a malicious package.

When installed through a typosquatting attack, the package will extract and upload information to a remote server including name of the downloaded package, name of the intended package, the Node version and whether the process was running as sudo.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

9.1 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)
    None