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Malicious Package in boogeyman

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 1, 2020 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

npm boogeyman (npm)

Affected versions

>= 0.0.0

Patched versions

None

Description

All versions of boogeyman are considered malicious. This particular package would download a payload from pastebin.com, eval it to read ssh keys and the users .npmrc and send them to a private pastebin account.

Recommendation

This package was published to the npm Registry for a very short period of time. If you happen to find it in your environment you should revoke and rotate your ssh keys and your npm token.

References

Reviewed Aug 31, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 1, 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-9hc2-w9gg-q6jw

Source code

No known source code
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