Malicious Package Affecting rustdecimal package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Mature
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RUST-RUSTDECIMAL-2813630
- published 11 May 2022
- disclosed 11 May 2022
- credit @safinaskar
How to fix?
Avoid using all malicious instances of the rustdecimal
package.
Overview
rustdecimal is a malicious package.
This package contains a malicious Decimal::new
function, which checks whether the GITLAB_CI
environment variable was set and if so it downloads a binary payload into /tmp/git-updater.bin
, then executes it.
Note: The binary payload supported both Linux and macOS, but not Windows.