Malicious Package Affecting tkint3rs package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-TKINT3RS-3358389
  • published10 Mar 2023
  • disclosed10 Mar 2023
  • creditSonatype Research Team

Introduced: 10 Mar 2023

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

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the tkint3rs package.

Overview

tkint3rs is a malicious package. This package contains code that performs multiple malicious activities such as:

  1. dropping malware

  2. deleting the netstat utility

  3. tampering with the SSH authorized_keys file on the victim's system

References

CVSS Scores

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