CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-16061

Embedded Malicious Code

Published: May 29, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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tkinter was a malicious module published with the intent to hijack environment variables. It has been unpublished by npm.

Weakness

The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
TkinterTkinter_package**

Potential Mitigations

References