{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00010985","kind":"supply_chain_event","title":"Malicious code in throttle-requests (RubyGems)","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-w9p5-4fpg-4c6w"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this malware advisory for throttle-requests, throttle-requests, throttle-requests. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.","review_status":"source_listed","control_topics":[],"public_actions":[{"summary":"Identify the exact component and deployed version, examine the linked publisher’s conditions, and retain evidence of any mitigation.","source_ids":["sr-82b1891948533b692ba5c8f70d188605"],"action_type":"investigate","limitations":"Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system.","current_supported_target":null}],"schema_version":"1.1.0","source_metrics":[],"why_it_matters":"Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.","related_sources":[{"id":"sr-82b1891948533b692ba5c8f70d188605","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w9p5-4fpg-4c6w","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-w9p5-4fpg-4c6w","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-10-31T23:13:05.881Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-82b1891948533b692ba5c8f70d188605"],"technology":"throttle-requests","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"## Source: amazon-inspector (ff1a325fc41cbb1dd7c949031e75946ce0f5f522bae7f63371dcc2c93589ec5d)\nThe gem's native-extension build script extconf.rb base64-decodes an embedded Ruby payload, writes it to a random path in the temporary directory, and spawns it in the background before running the normal mkmf build. The decoded payload opens a TCP socket to the hardcoded host 45.138.12.177 on port 8090 and bridges that socket to /bin/sh via IO.popen in a persistent loop, granting the remote host interactive shell access on the installer's machine during `gem install`. The payload destination and shell-exec behavior are hidden inside a base64 literal decoded only at install time, with a bare rescue swallowing errors. The behavior is unrelated to the package's stated purpose (a request throttling library) and runs automatically as part of the gem's native extension build phase.\n\n---\n\nCredit: OpenSSF (source)","public_affected_ranges":["= 1.0.0"]},{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-82b1891948533b692ba5c8f70d188605"],"technology":"throttle-requests","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"## Source: amazon-inspector (ff1a325fc41cbb1dd7c949031e75946ce0f5f522bae7f63371dcc2c93589ec5d)\nThe gem's native-extension build script extconf.rb base64-decodes an embedded Ruby payload, writes it to a random path in the temporary directory, and spawns it in the background before running the normal mkmf build. The decoded payload opens a TCP socket to the hardcoded host 45.138.12.177 on port 8090 and bridges that socket to /bin/sh via IO.popen in a persistent loop, granting the remote host interactive shell access on the installer's machine during `gem install`. The payload destination and shell-exec behavior are hidden inside a base64 literal decoded only at install time, with a bare rescue swallowing errors. 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The payload destination and shell-exec behavior are hidden inside a base64 literal decoded only at install time, with a bare rescue swallowing errors. The behavior is unrelated to the package's stated purpose (a request throttling library) and runs automatically as part of the gem's native extension build phase.\n\n---\n\nCredit: OpenSSF (source)","public_affected_ranges":["= 1.0.1"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-10-31T23:18:22.418Z","source_updated_at":"2026-10-06T00:33:05.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-10-05T09:31:54.000Z","is_synthetic_fixture":false,"null_last_reviewed_at":null,"public_change_summary":"First indexed by Null; source disclosure date is shown separately.","null_first_observed_at":"2026-10-31T23:13:05.881Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}