A novel timing attack discovered against the npm’s registry API can be exploited to potentially disclose private packages used by organizations, putting developers at risk of supply chain threats.
“By creating a list of possible package names, threat actors can detect organizations’ scoped private packages and then masquerade public packages, tricking employees and users into downloading them,”

A novel timing attack discovered against the npm’s registry API can be exploited to potentially disclose private packages used by organizations, putting developers at risk of supply chain threats.
“By creating a list of possible package names, threat actors can detect organizations’ scoped private packages and then masquerade public packages, tricking employees and users into downloading them,”