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GHSA-7cgc-fjv4-52x6

Malware in pre-build binaries of bignum

Quick fix

GHSA-7cgc-fjv4-52x6 — bignum: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install bignum@0.13.1

Details

### Impact

bignum releases from v0.12.2 to v0.13.0 (inclusive) used node-pre-gyp to optionally download pre-built binary versions of the addon. These binaries were published on a now-expired S3 bucket which has since been claimed by a malicious third party which is now serving binaries containing malware that exfiltrates data from the user's computer.

### Patches

v0.13.1 does not use node-pre-gyp and does not have support for downloading pre-built binaries in any form, avoiding the risk of malicious downloads.

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Affected packages

npm/bignum
Introduced in: 0.12.2Fixed in: 0.13.1
Fixnpm install bignum@0.13.1

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