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Tracking Module in botbait

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 1, 2020 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 6, 2023

Package

npm botbait (npm)

Affected versions

>= 0.0.0

Patched versions

None

Description

The module botbait is a tool to be used to track bot and automated tools usage with-in the npm ecosystem.

botbait is known to record and track user information.

The module tracks the following information.

  • Source IP
  • process.versions
  • process.platform
  • How the module was invoked (test, require, pre-install)

Recommendation

This package has no functional value, and should be removed from your environment if discovered.

References

Reviewed Aug 31, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 1, 2020
Last updated Feb 6, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

0.085%
(38th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2017-16126

GHSA ID

GHSA-4r5x-qjqc-p579

Source code

No known source code
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