GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-hxxf-q3w9-4xgw Malicious Package in eslint-scope
CRITICAL
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- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- eslint-scope, eslint-config-eslint
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-506
- Reviewed
- 2020-06-16
Affected packages
• npm eslint-scope: >= 3.7.2, < 3.7.3 → fixed in 3.7.3
• npm eslint-config-eslint: >= 5.0.2, < 6.0.0 → fixed in 6.0.0
Description
Version 3.7.2 of `eslint-scope` was published without authorization and was found to contain malicious code. This code would read the users `.npmrc` file and send any found authentication tokens to 2 remote servers.
Recommendation
The best course of action if you found this package installed in your environment is to revoke all your npm tokens. You can find instructions on how to do that here. https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/working_with_tokens#how-to-revoke-tokens
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-506 Embedded Malicious Code weakness
References
- https://github.com/eslint/eslint-scope/issues/39 web
- https://eslint.org/blog/2018/07/postmortem-for-malicious-package-publishes web
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hxxf-q3w9-4xgw advisory
- https://github.com/eslint/eslint-scope package
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ESLINTSCOPE-11120 web
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/673 web