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high 8.8

CVE-2025-59330 json

error-ex@1.3.3 contains malware after npm account takeover

published 2025-09-15 13 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-5g7q-qh7p-jjvm , GHSA-6jp5-hh4c-8c5h , EUVD-2025-29240

cvss
8.8
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 37%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

error-ex allows error subclassing and stack customization. On 8 September 2025, an npm publishing account for error-ex was taken over after a phishing attack. Version 1.3.3 was published, functionally identical to the previous patch version, but with a malware payload added attempting to redirect cryptocurrency transactions to the attacker's own addresses from within browser environments. Local environments, server environments, command line applications, etc. are not affected. If the package was used in a browser context (e.g. a direct <script> inclusion, or via a bundling tool such as Babel, Rollup, Vite, Next.js, etc.) there is a chance the malware still exists and such bundles will need to be rebuilt. The malware seemingly only targets cryptocurrency transactions and wallets such as MetaMask. npm removed the offending package from the registry over the course of the day on 8 September, preventing further downloads from npm proper. On 13 September, the package owner published new patch versions to help cache-bust those using private registries who might still have the compromised version cached. Users should update to the latest patch version, completely remove their node_modules directory, clean their package manager's global cache, and rebuild any browser bundles from scratch. Those operating private registries or registry mirrors should purge the offending versions from any caches. This issue is resolved in 1.3.4.

Patch / fix

  • npm error-ex 1.3.4

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-59330 updated

error-ex: error-ex: npm account takeover leads to malware

  • Red Hat Cryostat 4 io.cryostat-cryostat Red Hat Gatekeeper 3 gatekeeper/gatekeeper-rhel9 Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/vector-rhel9, openshift-logging/kibana6-rhel8, openshift-logging/eventrouter-rhel9, openshift-logging/cluster-logging-rhel9-operator, openshift-logging/log-file-metric-exporter-rhel9, openshift-logging/cluster-logging-operator-bundle Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 8 mta-static-report-container Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Virtualization mtv-candidate/mtv-console-plugin-rhel9, migration-toolkit-virtualization/mtv-console-plugin-rhel9 Red Hat Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes multicluster-engine/console-mce-rhel8, multicluster-engine/console-mce-rhel9
    +34 more products
    Red Hat Multicluster Global Hub multicluster-globalhub/multicluster-globalhub-grafana-rhel9 Red Hat Network Observability Operator network-observability/network-observability-console-plugin-rhel9 Red Hat Node HealthCheck Operator workload-availability/node-remediation-console-rhel9, workload-availability/node-healthcheck-rhel9-operator, workload-availability/node-healthcheck-operator-bundle, workload-availability/node-healthcheck-must-gather-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed openshift-lightspeed/lightspeed-console-plugin-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-ui-rhel8, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-ui-rhel9, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-api-rhel8, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-api-rhel9, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-console-plugin-rhel8, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-console-plugin-rhel9, +2 more Red Hat OpenShift Serverless openshift-serverless-1/kn-backstage-plugins-eventmesh-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2 openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8, openshift-service-mesh/kiali-ossmc-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3 openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel9, openshift-service-mesh/istio-cni-rhel9, openshift-service-mesh/istio-pilot-rhel9, openshift-service-mesh/kiali-ossmc-rhel9, openshift-service-mesh/istio-proxyv2-rhel9, openshift-service-mesh/istio-rhel9-operator, +5 more Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 rhacm2/console-rhel9, rhacm2/acm-grafana-rhel9, rhacm2/acm-flightctl-ui-rhel9, rhacm2/acm-flightctl-ocp-ui-rhel9, rhacm2/prometheus-alertmanager-rhel9 Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4 advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-main-rhel8, advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-roxctl-rhel8, advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-rhel8-operator, advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-collector-rhel8, advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-operator-bundle, advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-central-db-rhel8, +2 more Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 org.jolokia-jolokia-parent Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 automation-gateway, automation-controller, automation-eda-controller, ansible-automation-platform-24/lightspeed-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-25/lightspeed-rhel8 Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4 io.hawt-project Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 2 io.apicurio-apicurio-registry Red Hat build of OptaPlanner 8 org.optaweb.vehiclerouting-optaweb-vehicle-routing Red Hat Data Grid 8 org.infinispan-infinispan-console Red Hat Developer Hub 1 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9 Red Hat Discovery 1 discovery/discovery-ui-rhel9 Red Hat Discovery 2 discovery/discovery-ui-rhel9 Red Hat Edge Manager preview rhem/flightctl-ui-rhel9, rhem/flightctl-api-rhel9, rhem/flightctl-ui-ocp-rhel9, rhem/flightctl-worker-rhel9, rhacm2/acm-flightctl-ui-rhel9, rhem/flightctl-db-setup-rhel9, +6 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 pcs, grafana, mozjs60, pcs-snmp, grafana-pcp, grafana-loki, +12 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 gjs, pcs, polkit, grafana, pcs-snmp, grafana-pcp, +2 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 grafana-pcp Red Hat Fuse 7 io.hawt-project, io.apicurio-apicurito, io.hawt-hawtio-online, io.syndesis-syndesis-parent Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 io.hawt-project, org.jboss.hal-hal-parent Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 io.hawt-project, org.jboss.hal-hal-parent, org.keycloak-keycloak-parent Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack io.hawt-project, org.jboss.hal-hal-parent, org.keycloak-keycloak-parent Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel8, rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9, rhoai/odh-model-registry-rhel8, rhoai/odh-model-registry-rhel9, rhoai/odh-data-science-pipelines-argo-argoexec-rhel8, rhoai/odh-data-science-pipelines-argo-workflowcontroller-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-console, openshift4/ose-console-rhel9, openshift4/ose-operator-sdk-rhel9, openshift4/ose-helm-rhel9-operator, openshift4/ose-monitoring-plugin-rhel8, openshift4/ose-monitoring-plugin-rhel9, +3 more Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/mcg-core-rhel9, odf4/odf-console-rhel9, odf4/ocs-client-console-rhel9, odf4/odf-multicluster-console-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/code-rhel9, devspaces/openvsx-rhel9, devspaces/traefik-rhel9, devspaces/dashboard-rhel9, devspaces/configbump-rhel9, devspaces/imagepuller-rhel9, +3 more Red Hat OpenShift GitOps openshift-gitops-1/dex-rhel8, openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel8, openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel9, openshift-gitops-1/gitops-rhel8, openshift-gitops-1/must-gather-rhel8, openshift-gitops-1/argocd-agent-rhel8, +5 more Red Hat Process Automation 7 org.uberfire-uberfire-parent, org.kie.workbench-kie-wb-common, org.kie-process-migration-service Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-rhel8
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

6 more not affected in the full advisory

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
13 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 8.8 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:A/U:Red
CNA 4.0 8.8 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:A/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:Red

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm error-ex
>=1.3.3, <1.3.4
1.3.4

Affected products

  • Qix- node-error-ex

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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