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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.
node-msdeploy
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Simplified Node.js interface for MsDeploy (Windows platform only)
npm install node-msdeploy --save
// Import module
let NodeMsDeploy = require('node-msdeploy');
// Define deploy options (ex. Azure App Service)
let deployOptions = {
computerName : 'my-app.scm.azurewebsites.net',
site: 'my-app',
protocol: 'https',
port: 443,
userName: '$my-app',
password: 'my-supersecret-password123!',
authType: 'Basic',
packageFile: 'C:\\folder\\subfolder\\zip-with-application.zip'
};
// Initialize deployer
let deployer = new NodeMsDeploy(deployOptions);
// Launch deployment and handle promise
deployer.execute().then(
// Success
() => {
console.log('Deployment completed!');
},
// Error
(err) => {
console.log('Deployment failed with error ' + err);
}
);
FAQs
Simplified Node.js interface for MsDeploy (Windows platform only)
We found that node-msdeploy 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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