Malicious Package in commander-js
Critical severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
Sep 2, 2020
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 9, 2023
Description
Reviewed
Aug 31, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Sep 2, 2020
Last updated
Jan 9, 2023
All versions of
commander-js
are considered malicious. The package is malware designed to take advantage of users making a mistake when typing the name of a module to install. When installed, the package downloads an arbitrary file and executes its contents as a post-install script.Recommendation
This package is not available on the npm Registry anymore. If you happen to find this package in your environment you should consider the system it was installed on compromised and assess if further response (such as rotating all credentials found on the compromised machine) is necessary.
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