🛡️ GHSA-5w9c-rv96-fr7g — faker (CVE-2021-23567)

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Removal of functional code in faker.js

Faker.js helps users create large amounts of data for testing and development. The maintainer deliberately removed the functional code from this package. This appears to be a purposeful and successful attempt to make the package unusable. This is related to the colors.js [CVE-2021-23567](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gh88-3pxp-6fm8).

The functional code for this package was forked and can be found [here](https://github.com/faker-js/faker).

Affected software

GHSA-5w9c-rv96-fr7g is recorded against 1 package.

  • faker

Timeline and source

Published on 22 March 2022. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Advisory)
snyk.io (Web)
www.npmjs.com (Web)
www.npmjs.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-03-22
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2022-03-22
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
faker

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