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Malicious npm Package Brand-Squats TanStack to Exfiltrate Environment Variables
A brand-squatted TanStack npm package used postinstall scripts to steal .env files and exfiltrate developer secrets to an attacker-controlled endpoint.
npm-license-corrections
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SPDX license expressions for npm packages without proper metadata
SPDX license expressions for npm packages without proper metadata
licensee uses this package, along with correct-license-metadata, to find valid license expressions for npm packages without them.
This package exports an Array of Objects. Each Object looks like:
{
"name": "optimist",
"version": "6.0.1",
"license": "MIT"
}
license contains a valid SPDX license expression for version of package name.
name may contain a scope, as well as a package name, like @scope/package.
| When this project ... | ... it will increment |
|---|---|
| corrects an entry | patch |
| adds a new entry | minor |
| breaks schema | major |
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SPDX license expressions for npm packages without proper metadata
We found that npm-license-corrections demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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