PT-2020-21020

Published

2020-09-02

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Updated

2020-09-02

Description by

CVSS 3.1
9.8
Critical
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions reqquest (affected versions not specified)
Description The issue concerns a typosquatted package named reqquest that tracks and uploads user information to a remote server, including the name of the downloaded package, the intended package name, the Node version, and whether the process is running as sudo. There is no further compromise beyond this information upload.
Recommendations Remove the reqquest package from your dependencies and ensure that package names are typed correctly during installation to prevent similar issues.
Exploitability
Fix
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
Related identifiers
GHSA-4JFQ-Q299-G4CR
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