Bug bounty hunters awarded $14,500 for ZIP slips

Bug bounty hunters awarded $14,500 for ZIP slips

3 years ago
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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-finds-7-code-execution-vulnerabilities-in-tar-and-npm-cli/

GitHub security team has identified several high-severity vulnerabilities in npm packages, "tar" and "@npmcli/arborist," used by npm CLI.

The tar package receives 20 million weekly downloads on average, whereas arborist gets downloaded over 300,000 times every week.

Bug bounty hunters awarded $14,500 for ZIP slips

Sep 9, 2021, 4:18am UTC
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-finds-7-code-execution-vulnerabilities-in-tar-and-npm-cli/ > GitHub security team has identified several high-severity vulnerabilities in npm packages, "tar" and "@npmcli/arborist," used by npm CLI. > The tar package receives 20 million weekly downloads on average, whereas arborist gets downloaded over 300,000 times every week.