Malicious Package Affecting commander-js package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Mature
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- published 9 Jan 2019
- disclosed 15 Jan 2019
- credit Vladimir Tikhonov
How to fix?
Avoid using commander-js altogether.
Overview
commander-js is a Malicous Package.
This package is trying to mimic the real commander.js [ https://www.npmjs.com/package/commander]. It has a backdoor in postinstall script which downloads and evaluates the content of http://23.94.46.191/update.json (which currently doesn't contain anything malicious).