Malicious Package Affecting rpc-websocket package, versions >=0.7.6


0.0
critical

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Mature

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-RPCWEBSOCKET-451021
  • published 26 Jun 2019
  • disclosed 25 Jun 2019
  • credit npm security

Introduced: 25 Jun 2019

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

How to fix?

Avoid using version 0.7.9, 0.7.10, 0.7.11 of rpc-websocket.

Overview

rpc-websocket is a wrapper for standard websockets that adds support for message types, RPC, and for before/after send/receive events.

Affected versions of this package open a backdoor to a remote server and execute arbitrary commands.