Malicious Package Affecting webpack-cil package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Mature

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-WEBPACKCIL-2992819
  • published 25 Aug 2022
  • disclosed 19 Aug 2022
  • credit Sonatype

Introduced: 19 Aug 2022

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

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the webpack-cil package.

Overview

webpack-cil 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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
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