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GHSA-mh6f-8j2x-4483

CriticalCVSS 9.8 / 10
Published Nov 26, 2018·Last modified Sep 15, 2021
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

The NPM package flatmap-stream is considered malicious. A malicious actor added this package as a dependency to the NPM event-stream package in version 3.3.6. Users of event-stream are encouraged to downgrade to the last non-malicious version, 3.3.4, or upgrade to the latest 4.x version.

Users of flatmap-stream are encouraged to remove the dependency entirely.

Risk Scores
Base Score
9.8

The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a high impact on the confidentiality of the information. There is a high impact on the integrity of the data. There is a high impact on the availability of the system.

Threat Intelligence
9.0

Active exploitation in the wild has been confirmed. Immediate patching or mitigation is required.

EPSS
N/A

Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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