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Malicious Package in nodes.js

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 3, 2020 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

npm nodes.js (npm)

Affected versions

>= 0.0.0

Patched versions

None

Description

All versions of nodes.js contain malicious code. The package searches and installs globally thousands of packages based on keywords node, react, react-native, vue, angular and babel to fill the system's memory.

Recommendation

Remove the package from your environment and validate what packages are installed.

References

Reviewed Aug 31, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 3, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Critical
9.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

No known CVE

GHSA ID

GHSA-38vq-cjh5-vw7x

Source code

No known source code
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