Prettier eslint-config-prettier Embedded Malicious Code Vulnerability
Prettier / eslint-config-prettier
Prettier eslint-config-prettier contains an embedded malicious code vulnerability. Installing an affected package executes an install.js file that launches the node-gyp.dll malware on Windows.
- CVE identifier
- CVE-2025-54313
- Added to KEV
- Jan 22, 2026
- CISA catalog dueDate
- Feb 12, 2026
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Publisher's required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
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Keep the signals separate.
- Ransomware use, as reported by CISA
- Unknown
- CVSS severity
- Not supplied by KEV
- EPSS probability
- Not available
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“Unknown” ransomware use is an unknown source field, not proof that ransomware activity has not occurred.
Source notes
This vulnerability could affect an open-source component, third-party library, protocol, or proprietary implementation that could be used by different products. For more information, please see: https://www.npmjs.com/package/eslint-config-prettier?activeTab=versions ; https://github.com/prettier/eslint-config-prettier/issues/339#issuecomment-3090304490 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54313
Source & freshness
Source updated: Nov 6, 2026, 7:44 PM UTC
Successfully checked: Nov 8, 2026, 12:22 AM UTC
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Automated source record, not an editorial advisory or an independent discovery. No affected or fixed version is inferred, and no organisation-specific risk rating is generated.