What is GHSA-8hmr-w35f-3qgj?

GHSA-8hmr-w35f-3qgj is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Critical severity. Malicious Package in harmlesspackage

Why does GHSA-8hmr-w35f-3qgj 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-8hmr-w35f-3qgj?

GHSA-8hmr-w35f-3qgj has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-8hmr-w35f-3qgj?

GHSA-8hmr-w35f-3qgj affects 1 product, including: npm/harmlesspackage:\u003e= 0.0.0.

GHSA-8hmr-w35f-3qgjCriticalCVSS 9.8Disclosed before NVD

Malicious Package in harmlesspackage

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

September 3, 2020

Last Modified

January 9, 2023

📋 Description

Version 0.0.1 of harmlesspackage contains malicious code as a postinstall script. The package printed a message to the console and performed a GET request to a remote server.

Recommendation

Remove the package from your environment. There is no evidence of further compromise.

🎯 Affected products1

npm/harmlesspackage:>= 0.0.0

🔗 References (2)

https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1199
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8hmr-w35f-3qgj