GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-97m3-w2cp-4xx6 Embedded Malicious Code in node-ipc

CRITICAL Published 2022-03-16 Modified 2022-03-25 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2022-23812
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
node-ipc
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, CWE-94
Reviewed
2022-03-16

Affected packages

• npm node-ipc: >= 10.1.1, < 10.1.3 → fixed in 10.1.3

Description

The package node-ipc versions 10.1.1 and 10.1.2 are vulnerable to embedded malicious code that was introduced by the maintainer. The malicious code was intended to overwrite arbitrary files dependent upon the geo-location of the user IP address. The maintainer removed the malicious code in version 10.1.3.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2022-23812 This affects the package node-ipc from 10.1.1 and before 10.1.3. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-506 Embedded Malicious Code weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness

References