Malicious Package Affecting rrequest package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-RREQUEST-174662
  • published14 May 2019
  • disclosed6 May 2019
  • creditNathan Doak

Introduced: 6 May 2019

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

How to fix?

Avoid using rrequest altogether.

Overview

rrequest 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