What is GHSA-6879-xr95-5gf4?

GHSA-6879-xr95-5gf4 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Critical severity. Malicious Package in malicious-do-not-install

Why does GHSA-6879-xr95-5gf4 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-6879-xr95-5gf4?

GHSA-6879-xr95-5gf4 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-6879-xr95-5gf4?

GHSA-6879-xr95-5gf4 affects 1 product, including: npm/malicious-do-not-install:\u003e= 0.0.0.

GHSA-6879-xr95-5gf4CriticalCVSS 9.8Disclosed before NVD

Malicious Package in malicious-do-not-install

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

September 3, 2020

Last Modified

January 9, 2023

📋 Description

All versions of malicious-do-not-install contain malicious code. The package copies the contents of /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to files in the local /tmp/ folder.

Recommendation

Remove the package from your environment and rotate affected credentials.

🎯 Affected products1

npm/malicious-do-not-install:>= 0.0.0

🔗 References (2)

https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1040
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6879-xr95-5gf4