Bug bounty hunters awarded $14,500 for ZIP slips
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.