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Malicious npm Packages Inject SSH Backdoors via Typosquatted Libraries
Socket’s threat research team has detected six malicious npm packages typosquatting popular libraries to insert SSH backdoors.
This was originally just an adoption of a browser library to node.js.
Since that library is now itself a node.js module, you should use that one: alexei/sprintf.js
Or just install it via npm:
npm install sprintf-js
There is also a built-in util.format.
This package is not maintained anymore. See Disclaimer above.
npm install sprintf
Works exactly like http://www.diveintojavascript.com/projects/javascript-sprintf, except that it exports those two functions:
sprintf = require('sprintf').sprintf;
vsprintf = require('sprintf').vsprintf;
Have fun!
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Sprintf() for node.js
The npm package sprintf receives a total of 96,762 weekly downloads. As such, sprintf popularity was classified as popular.
We found that sprintf 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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