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Malware

rubocop-vintedmetrics

GHSA-74p9-vf24-gx2h

Malicious code in rubocop-vintedmetrics (RubyGems)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 9.9.9`

## Source: ossf-package-analysis (c8e90dd88f71e05719940997342cf6a367387fc68045f091a864d8f8e7e62be8)
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'rubocop-vintedmetrics' @ 9.9.12 (rubygems) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

- The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/9fbb5fba02ba2f02395d3d2d43c31b2c482b7a9d/osv/malicious/rubygems/rubocop-vintedmetrics/MAL-2026-996.json))

**References:**
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/9fbb5fba02ba2f02395d3d2d43c31b2c482b7a9d/osv/malicious/rubygems/rubocop-vintedmetrics/MAL-2026-996.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-74p9-vf24-gx2h

Compromised versions (1)

  • = 9.9.9

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