CVE-2017-16068: Malicious package (Typosquatting)

June 7, 2018 (updated October 9, 2019)

ffmepg was a malicious module published with the intent to hijack environment variables. It has been unpublished by npm.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16068

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