Malicious Package Affecting tencentcloud-cos-sdk-react-native 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-TENCENTCLOUDCOSSDKREACTNATIVE-5721473
  • published20 Jun 2023
  • disclosed20 Jun 2023
  • creditTzachi (Zack) Zorn

Introduced: 20 Jun 2023

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

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the tencentcloud-cos-sdk-react-native package.

Overview

tencentcloud-cos-sdk-react-native is a malicious package.

This instance of the tencentcloud-cos-sdk-react-native package contains malware and attempts to compromise users by adopting dependency confusion techniques. A dependency confusion attack is a type of supply chain attack where malicious software is inserted into the development process by replacing a legitimate software package with a malicious one.

Note: Users are exposed if they've installed the tencentcloud-cos-sdk-react-native package from public repositories. Installations of this package from private repositories or CDNs are likely safe to use.

This package contains malicious code that exfiltrates sensitive user information.

These spoofed packages have no relation to the company or project they are attempting to spoof, and are not published by them or associated with them in any way. Out of an abundance of caution, Snyk will mark any occurrence of the package as malicious, regardless of download source. Only the user can determine with certainty whether it is the intended package and can be safely ignored.

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CVSS Scores

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