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Malicious Package Affecting ruby-bitcoin package, versions >=0.0.0

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Mature

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-RUBYBITCOIN-1052071
  • published 17 Dec 2020
  • disclosed 17 Dec 2020
  • credit Sonatype
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Introduced: 17 Dec 2020

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

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the ruby-bitcoin package.

Overview

ruby-bitcoin is a malicious package. Within version.rb, hidden obfuscated code is present which, on Windows systems, generates and runs a malicious VBScript the_Score.vb. Note: The code present in this package is slightly different to the malicious package pretty_color.

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