cloud-config-fetcher
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This module exhibits anomalous behavior by executing a dynamically constructed inline script via `child_process.execFileSync` at require-time to fetch and cache a remote JSON configuration. The default remote URL can be controlled via the `CLOUD_CONFIG_DEFAULT_URL` environment variable, enabling potential supply-chain manipulation or arbitrary file writes if the environment is compromised. The fetched content is written to a user-level cache directory without authenticity or integrity verification beyond a basic JSON parse check. The remote content is malicious and gets executed by another package that is installed in the same dependency chain.
This package contained malicious code and was removed from the registry by the npm security team. A placeholder was published to ensure users are not affected in the future.
Please refer to www.npmjs.com/advisories?search=cloud-config-fetcher for more information.
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The npm package cloud-config-fetcher receives a total of 137 weekly downloads. As such, cloud-config-fetcher popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that cloud-config-fetcher demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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