Malicious Package Affecting tsconfig-slick package, versions *
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Exploit Maturity
Mature
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- published 3 Nov 2023
- disclosed 3 Nov 2023
- credit Phylum Research Team
How to fix?
Avoid using all malicious instances of the tsconfig-slick package.
Overview
tsconfig-slick is a malicious package.
The attack chain is triggered by package installation via an install hook in the package.json. The malicious code constructs an object o that aggregates various pieces of system information, such as the operating system's platform, architecture, release version, CPU information, network interfaces, and user information after which it exfiltrates the data to a malicious host.
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version 3.1