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Malicious npm Package Targets Solana Developers and Hijacks Funds
A malicious npm package targets Solana developers, rerouting funds in 2% of transactions to a hardcoded address.
mkdirp-infer-owner
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mkdirp, but chown to the owner of the containing folder if possible and necessary
mkdirp
, but chown to the owner of the containing
folder if possible and necessary.
That is, on Windows and when running as non-root, it's exactly the same as
mkdirp
.
When running as root on non-Windows systems, it uses
infer-owner
to find the owner of the
containing folder, and then chownr
to set the
ownership of the created folder to that same uid/gid.
This is used by npm to prevent root-owned files and
folders from showing up in your home directory (either in node_modules
or
in the ~/.npm
cache) when running as root.
FAQs
mkdirp, but chown to the owner of the containing folder if possible and necessary
We found that mkdirp-infer-owner 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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