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The new Chinese owner of the popular Polyfill JS project injects malware into more than 100 thousand sites (sansec.io)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by 0x815@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The polyfill.js is a popular open source library to support older browsers. 100K+ sites embed it using the cdn.polyfill.io domain. Notable users are JSTOR, Intuit and World Economic Forum. However, in February this year, a Chinese company bought the domain and the Github account. Since then, this domain was caught injecting malware on mobile devices via any site that embeds cdn.polyfill.io. Any complaints were quickly removed (archive here) from the Github repository.

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 175 points 4 months ago (37 children)

nah. over 100k sites ignored dependency risks, even after the original owners warned them this exact thing would happen.

the real story is 100k sites not being run appropriately.

[–] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 53 points 4 months ago (3 children)

One place I worked at recently was still using Node version 8. Running npm install would give me a mini heart attack... Like 400+ critical vulnerabilities, it was several thousand vulnerabilities all around.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Running npm install would give me a mini heart attack

It should; but more because it installs things right off the net with no validation. Consistency of code product is not the only thing you're tossing.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

How else would you get LPAD ? Expect me to write 2 lines of code when I could just import a 100 Mb library to do it for me?

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

You need to get up to date from three years ago. NodeJS 16.20, or thereabouts, enabled dependency auditing by default.

I’m still fighting my engineers go get current enough to use this (but we do have a proxy artifact server that also attempts to keep downloads clean, and a dependency scanner)

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

After the first 100, the other 300 kinda don't matter.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

If you're on RHEL 8+, you can install the latest version of node with dnf.

dnf install nodejs will likely install node 8 :(. Use dnf module install nodejs:20 to install the latest version.

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