Malicious Package Affecting sketch-pexels package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-SKETCHPEXELS-3008510
  • published29 Aug 2022
  • disclosed8 Jul 2022
  • creditAx Sharma

Introduced: 8 Jul 2022

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

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the sketch-pexels package.

Overview

sketch-pexels is a malicious package. This package contains a malicious code that infects Linux hosts with cryptominers by downloading a malicious Bash script from the attacker server via a Bitly URL.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1