Malicious code in eth-address-utils (RubyGems)

Source: amazon-inspector 8ed9d372d4fc694697be41c22e7c4d02d873e53e16bde2336069787b7b961ce2 The gem advertises itself as an Ethereum address utility library but its extconf.rb auto-executed by gem install carries a base64-encoded payload that is decoded and passed to eval inside a double-forked,...

Malicious Package

Overview eth-address-utils is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code, and its content was removed from the official package manager. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid organization, there is no connection between that organization and this package...

Malicious code in eth-address-utils (RubyGems)

RubyGems runs this gem's native extension script ext/reqthrottlemini/extconf.rb during gem install. The script exits without action on CI runners and sandboxes, based on CI environment variables, the hostname, the username and the working directory. It continues if the system uptime is over 30...

MAL-2026-17597 Malicious code in eth-address-utils (RubyGems)

RubyGems runs this gem's native extension script ext/reqthrottlemini/extconf.rb during gem install. The script exits without action on CI runners and sandboxes, based on CI environment variables, the hostname, the username and the working directory. It continues if the system uptime is over 30...