Malicious Package Affecting ipboards package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-IPBOARDS-1924472
  • published21 Nov 2021
  • disclosed19 Nov 2021
  • creditJFrog

Introduced: 19 Nov 2021

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

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the ipboards package.

Overview

ipboards is a malicious package. It masquerades as a legitimate dependency designed to be automatically imported by taking advantage of dependency confusion or namespace confusion technique. In reality, it is using DNS tunneling as a data exfiltration method by relying on DNS requests as a channel for communication between the victim machine and the remote server.

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