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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.
A library to encode to and decode from base64, similar to atob btoa of native JavaScript functions.
$ npm install b64-cjs
const Base64 = require('b64-cjs');
const myObj = {name: "john", age: 30};
const myObjString = JSON.stringify(myObj);
const base64EncodedString = Base64.encode(myObjString);
console.log(base64EncodedString);
const Base64 = require('b64-cjs');
const myObj = {name: "john", age: 30};
const myObjString = JSON.stringify(myObj);
const base64EncodedString = Base64.encode(myObjString);
const decodedBase64String = Base64.decode(base64EncodedMyObj);
console.log(JSON.parse(decodedBase64String));
FAQs
A cjs library to encode to and decode from base64 charset.
The npm package b64-cjs receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, b64-cjs popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that b64-cjs 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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Research
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