Malicious Package Affecting rpc-websocket package, versions >=0.7.6
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Mature
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-RPCWEBSOCKET-451021
- published 26 Jun 2019
- disclosed 25 Jun 2019
- credit npm security
How to fix?
Avoid using version 0.7.9, 0.7.10, 0.7.11 of rpc-websocket
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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.