Description

A supply chain attack on NPM, named “Shai-Hulud”, occurred on the morning of September 16. Specifically, the library @ctrl/tinycolor, which averages 2.2 million weekly downloads, along with several other packages, was updated with a Trojan payload.

When executed, the malicious code scans the filesystem using Regex/TruffleHog to detect secrets and environment variables, and dumps process.env to extract access tokens for services such as GitHub, AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Affected Packages

angulartics2@14.1.2
ctrl/deluge@7.2.2
ctrl/golang-template@1.4.3
ctrl/magnet-link@4.0.4
ctrl/ngx-codemirror@7.0.2
ctrl/ngx-csv@6.0.2
ctrl/ngx-emoji-mart@9.2.2
ctrl/ngx-rightclick@4.0.2
ctrl/qbittorrent@9.7.2
ctrl/react-adsense@2.0.2
ctrl/shared-torrent@6.3.2
ctrl/tinycolor@4.1.1, @4.1.2
ctrl/torrent-file@4.1.2
ctrl/transmission@7.3.1
ctrl/ts-base32@4.0.2
encounter-playground@0.0.5
json-rules-engine-simplified@0.2.4, 0.2.1
koa2-swagger-ui@5.11.2, 5.11.1
nativescript-community/gesturehandler@2.0.35
nativescript-community/sentry 4.6.43
nativescript-community/text@1.6.13
nativescript-community/ui-collectionview@6.0.6
nativescript-community/ui-drawer@0.1.30
nativescript-community/ui-image@4.5.6
nativescript-community/ui-material-bottomsheet@7.2.72
nativescript-community/ui-material-core@7.2.76
nativescript-community/ui-material-core-tabs@7.2.76
ngx-color@10.0.2
ngx-toastr@19.0.2
ngx-trend@8.0.1
react-complaint-image@0.0.35
react-jsonschema-form-conditionals@0.3.21
react-jsonschema-form-extras@1.0.4
rxnt-authentication@0.0.6
rxnt-healthchecks-nestjs@1.0.5
rxnt-kue@1.0.7
swc-plugin-component-annotate@1.9.2
ts-gaussian@3.0.6
Other packages that depend on or include these affected modules may also be impacted.

Remediation Steps

Audit all project dependencies and system packages to identify any use of the compromised versions.
Uninstall or pin affected packages to the last known safe versions prior to the malicious update.
Rotate NPM tokens and other credentials if any of the compromised packages were installed on machines with publish access.

References