Malicious Package Affecting brakeman-translate_checkstyle_format package, versions >=0.0.0
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Exploit Maturity
Mature
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-BRAKEMANTRANSLATECHECKSTYLEFORMAT-566984
- published 17 Apr 2020
- disclosed 17 Apr 2020
- credit Reversing Labs
How to fix?
Avoid using brakeman-translate_checkstyle_format altogether.
Overview
brakeman-translate_checkstyle_format 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
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CVSS Scores
version 3.1