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Malware

ethers-web3

GHSA-65j5-86c5-pmjm

Malicious code in ethers-web3 (npm)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 6.13.5`

The package contains additional code to append a hardcoded SSH key to the user's authorized_keys file, creating a backoor, along with exfiltrating user private keys to an attack-controlled server.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/71b5ccd62809b0f6e173eff59b5900130cf7fc02/osv/malicious/npm/ethers-web3/MAL-2024-9425.json))

**References:**
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/71b5ccd62809b0f6e173eff59b5900130cf7fc02/osv/malicious/npm/ethers-web3/MAL-2024-9425.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-65j5-86c5-pmjm

Compromised versions (1)

  • = 6.13.5

Any computer that installed or ran a compromised version should be considered fully compromised. Rotate every secret on that machine from a clean environment.