Malicious Package Affecting awesome-bot package, versions <=1.18.0
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Mature
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- published 22 Aug 2019
- disclosed 19 Aug 2019
- credit Kazuhiro Nishiyama
How to fix?
Avoid using awesome-bot altogether.
Overview
awesome-bot is a bot gem to validate links in awesome projects.
Affected versions of this package contain malicious code. The library contained a backdoor which when executed would conduct hidden cryptocurrency mining operations inside an application.