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Supply Chain Attack on Axios Pulls Malicious Dependency from npm
A supply chain attack on Axios introduced a malicious dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, published minutes earlier and absent from the project’s GitHub releases.
alinex-core
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The core module is a base for all of my alinex modules. It has some common methods which are necessary in nearly any of my packages.
At the moment it contains:
A complete help with examples can be found at alinex.gitlab.io/node-core.
To include this in your module install it:
npm install alinex-core --save
Now only include it in your code and call it's methods:
const core = require('alinex-core');
// init signal exit handler
core.init();
// output logo on console
// eslint-disable-next-line no-console
console.log(core.logo('Portal Application'));
// exit with code and message
core.exit(100, new Error("Command already running, can't be called in parallel!"));
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Central module for the alinex systems.
We found that alinex-core demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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