colorjs color-name 2.0.1 malicious code

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A vulnerability was found in colorjs color-name 2.0.1. It has been declared as critical. The affected element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to malicious code. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2025-59145. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in colorjs color-name 2.0.1 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a malicious code vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-506. The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

color-name is a JSON with CSS color names. On 8 September 2025, an npm publishing account for color-name was taken over after a phishing attack. Version 2.0.1 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 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. See references below for more information on the payload. 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 2.0.2.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-59145 since 09/09/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

It is declared as attacked.

Upgrading to version 2.0.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• colorjs

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• color-name

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• 2.0.1

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• Product: https://github.com/colorjs/color-name/

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