Malicious Package Affecting reqest package, versions *
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Exploit Maturity
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-REQEST-174831
- published 14 May 2019
- disclosed 6 May 2019
- credit Nathan Doak
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.
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version 3.1