What is GHSA-m9r7-q9fc-qwx5?

GHSA-m9r7-q9fc-qwx5 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Critical severity. Malicious Package in maybemaliciouspackage

Why does GHSA-m9r7-q9fc-qwx5 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-m9r7-q9fc-qwx5?

GHSA-m9r7-q9fc-qwx5 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-m9r7-q9fc-qwx5?

GHSA-m9r7-q9fc-qwx5 affects 1 product, including: npm/maybemaliciouspackage:\u003e= 0.0.0.

GHSA-m9r7-q9fc-qwx5CriticalCVSS 9.8Disclosed before NVD

Malicious Package in maybemaliciouspackage

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

September 3, 2020

Last Modified

January 9, 2023

📋 Description

All versions of maybemaliciouspackage contain malicious code. The package prints the system's SSH keys to the console as a postinstall script.

Recommendation

Remove the package from your environment. There are no further signs of compromise.

🎯 Affected products1

npm/maybemaliciouspackage:>= 0.0.0

🔗 References (2)

https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1042
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m9r7-q9fc-qwx5