GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-6879-xr95-5gf4 Malicious Package in malicious-do-not-install

CRITICAL Published 2020-09-03 Modified 2021-09-30 Official page ↗
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
malicious-do-not-install
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 malicious-do-not-install: >= 0.0.0 (no fix yet)

Description

All versions of `malicious-do-not-install` contain malicious code. The package copies the contents of `/etc/passwd` and `/etc/shadow` to files in the local `/tmp/` folder. Recommendation Remove the package from your environment and rotate affected credentials.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-506 Embedded Malicious Code weakness

References