Malicious Package Affecting bitcoin_vanity package, versions <=4.3.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-BITCOINVANITY-460138
  • published22 Aug 2019
  • disclosed19 Aug 2019
  • creditKazuhiro Nishiyama

Introduced: 19 Aug 2019

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

How to fix?

Avoid using bitcoin_vanity altogether.

Overview

bitcoin_vanity is a bitcoin related package.

Affected versions of this package contain malicious code. The library contained a backdoor which when executed would conduct hidden cryptocurrency mining operations inside an application.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1