Malicious Package in eslint-scope · GHSA-hxxf-q3w9-4xgw · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Malicious Package in eslint-scope

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jul 12, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jul 7, 2023

Package

eslint-config-eslint (npm)

Affected versions

= 5.0.2

Patched versions

6.0.0

eslint-scope (npm)

= 3.7.2

3.7.3

Description

Version 3.7.2 of eslint-scope was published without authorization and was found to contain malicious code. This code would read the users .npmrc file and send any found authentication tokens to 2 remote servers.

Recommendation

The best course of action if you found this package installed in your environment is to revoke all your npm tokens. You can find instructions on how to do that here. https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/working_with_tokens#how-to-revoke-tokens

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 12, 2018

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated Jul 7, 2023

Severity

Critical

9.1

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N