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Incident detail

criticalnpm·obfuscation·osv

Malicious code in webpack-cache-clean (npm)

webpack-cache-clean

Risk score

92

AI summary

Indexed incident for webpack-cache-clean (npm).

Description

On npm install, the package runs a postinstall hook (node -e "require('./loader.js')") that spawns a detached child process. The child decodes an obfuscated base64 URL (mislabeled as 'hex' with large whitespace padding) resolving to https://jsonkeeper.com/b/L435A, an anonymous JSON paste host, performs an HTTPS GET, extracts JavaScript source from a manifest.session field, writes it to a temp file, and require()s it — with no signature, hash, or pinned-version check. The fetched code runs with the installer's privileges and can be changed by the attacker between fetches. The package metadata is also inconsistent: the package name is webpack-cache-clean, the README is titled webpack-cache-plugin, the repository URL points at webpack-tools/webpack-cache-plugin, and the author is the generic Webpack Tools — a cover story to lure installers searching for legitimate webpack cache tooling. This satisfies install-time-rce: attacker-controlled, unpinned, obfuscated remote code execution fires automatically on default install.

Technical details

Affected versions

=0.1.4

Indicators

  • affected version=0.1.475%

Timeline

  1. Advisory published
  2. Indexed by ThreatPkg

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