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Axios JavaScript library has been compromised with malware in supply chain attack (github.com)

submitted 7 months ago by qaz@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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[–] TechnoCat@piefed.social 19 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I always advocate switching to pnpm where install scripts are disabled by default. It has plenty of security features to ward off most supply chain attacks.

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[–] techpeakedin1991@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Does disabling install scripts actually do anything though? The attack would still work if put in the code itself, no? The only difference I can see is that it would run when the project is run instead of when the package is installed.

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[–] TechnoCat@piefed.social 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Minimum age would have prevented it in this case.

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[–] prettygorgeous@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago

Just ask Australian how well minimum age verification works!

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[–] TechnoCat@piefed.social 4 points 7 months ago

On closer inspection, preventing post-install would have fixed it too: "The attack exploited a transitive dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, which executed a postinstall script to deploy the RAT."

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