Malicious Package Affecting aws-cloud_search package, versions >=0.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Mature

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-AWSCLOUDSEARCH-566924
  • published 17 Apr 2020
  • disclosed 17 Apr 2020
  • credit Reversing Labs

Introduced: 17 Apr 2020

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

How to fix?

Avoid using aws-cloud_search altogether.

Overview

aws-cloud_search is a malicious package.

Affected versions of this package were found to be a Malicious Package, as it utilised typosquatting to run Malicious 3rd party scripts. It replaced genuine packages using an _ and replaced it with - and vice versa

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Changed
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High