PT-2018-6106 · Npm · Shadowsock

Published 2018-06-07 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2017-16078

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: shadowsock (affected versions not specified)

Description: The issue concerns a malicious module named shadowsock that was published with the intent to hijack environment variables, stealing them and sending the information to attacker-controlled locations. All versions of this package have been unpublished from the npm registry.

Recommendations: Delete the shadowsock package Clear your npm cache Ensure shadowsock is not present in any other package.json files on your system Regenerate your registry credentials, tokens, and any other sensitive credentials that may have been present in your environment variables Review any service exposed via credentials in your environment variables for indicators of compromise

Fix

RCE

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-506

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-16078

GHSA-36VC-CW62-FQVR

Affected Products

Shadowsock

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16078 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-36vc-cw62-fqvr · Vendor Advisory
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/517 · Note
• https://npmjs.com/advisories/517 · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-36vc-cw62-fqvr · Note