GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-4xg9-g7qj-jhg4 Malicious Package in comander

CRITICAL Published 2020-09-03 Modified 2021-09-29 Official page ↗
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
comander
Severity
Critical
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-506
Reviewed
2020-08-31

Affected packages

• npm comander: >= 0.0.0 (no fix yet)

Description

All versions of `comander` contains malicious code . The package is malware designed to take advantage of users making a mistake when typing the name of a module to install. Upon require the package attempts to start a cryptocurrency miner using coin-hive. Recommendation Remove the package from your environment and verify whether your system is running the cryptocurrency miner.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-506 Embedded Malicious Code weakness

References