GitHub has published the results of an investigation into an attack that occurred on April 12, during which attackers gained access to cloud environments in the Amazon AWS service used in the NPM project infrastructure. The incident analysis revealed that the attackers accessed backups from the host skimdb.npmjs.com, including a backup of the database containing account information for approximately 100,000 NPM users from 2015, including password hashes, names, and email addresses. <\/p>\n
Password hashes were created using PBKDF2 or SHA1 algorithms with salt, which were replaced in 2017 with the more secure bcrypt. Following the incident, the compromised passwords were reset, and users were notified to set a new password. Since March 1, mandatory two-factor authentication with email confirmation has been implemented in NPM, and the risk of user compromise is assessed as low. <\/p>\n
Additionally, the attackers obtained all manifest files and metadata of private packages as of April 2021, CSV files with the current list of all names and versions of private packages, and the contents of all private packages belonging to two GitHub clients (names are not disclosed). Regarding the repository itself, analysis of traces and verification of package hashes did not find any changes made by the attackers to NPM packages or the publication of fake new versions of packages. <\/p>\n
The attack was carried out on April 12 using stolen OAuth tokens generated for two third-party GitHub integrators \u2014 Heroku and Travis-CI. By exploiting the tokens, the attackers were able to extract the key to access the Amazon Web Services API from private GitHub repositories, which was used in the infrastructure of the NPM project. The obtained key allowed access to data stored in the AWS S3 service. <\/p>\n
Additionally, information about previously identified serious privacy issues regarding user data processing has been disclosed. servers<\/a> NPM \u2014 some users' passwords and access tokens were saved in plaintext in internal logs. During NPM's integration with the GitHub logging system, the developers failed to remove confidential information from the log requests made to the NPM services. It is claimed that the oversight was addressed, and the logs were cleared before the attack on NPM. 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