Poisoned Pipeline / Incidents / AS216
faker.js npm maintainer sabotage broke apps
Catalogued from the tstromberg supplychain-attack-data dataset
(community-curated incident corpus). Included because first-party
sources exist for it; see the links below — vendor advisories, project
incident reports, and researcher write-ups. Not based on aggregator
coverage.
Mapped techniques
supply-chain campaign
Published package versions carried the payload.
Named in the tstromberg supplychain-attack-data corpus with first-party references.
Sources
- https://github.com/faker-js/faker/issues/1046
- https://snyk.io/blog/open-source-npm-packages-colors-faker-sabotaged/
- https://blog.sonatype.com/fakerjs-colorsjs-maintainer-intentionally-sabotages-popular-npm-libraries
- https://web.archive.org/web/20220105121928id_/https://registry.npmjs.org/faker/-/faker-6.6.6.tgz