What is GHSA-38vq-cjh5-vw7x?

GHSA-38vq-cjh5-vw7x is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Critical severity. Malicious Package in nodes.js

Why does GHSA-38vq-cjh5-vw7x have no CVE ID yet?

GitHub Security Advisories published this advisory directly to customers before NVD assigned a CVE ID. This is the embargo-window disclosure pattern — vendors notify customers on day 0; NVD's public record follows days to weeks later.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-38vq-cjh5-vw7x?

GHSA-38vq-cjh5-vw7x has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-38vq-cjh5-vw7x?

GHSA-38vq-cjh5-vw7x affects 1 product, including: npm/nodes.js:\u003e= 0.0.0.

GHSA-38vq-cjh5-vw7xCriticalCVSS 9.8Disclosed before NVD

Malicious Package in nodes.js

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

September 3, 2020

Last Modified

January 9, 2023

📋 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.

🎯 Affected products1

npm/nodes.js:>= 0.0.0

🔗 References (2)

https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1074
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-38vq-cjh5-vw7x