Malicious Package Affecting tslint-slick package, versions *


Severity

0.0
critical
0
10

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Mature

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-TSLINTSLICK-6044719
  • published 3 Nov 2023
  • disclosed 3 Nov 2023
  • credit Phylum Research Team

Introduced: 3 Nov 2023

Malicious CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-506 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the tslint-slick package.

Overview

tslint-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.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

9.8 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High