
The lottie-player npm compromise, October 2024: Day 0: maintainer account hijacked, malicious version 2.0.7 published and postinstall script exfiltrates env vars Day 1: thousands of CI runs already executed Day 3: CVE-2024-9079 filed CVE scanners catch this at Day 3+.
Post summary
The lottie‑player npm package was hijacked, a malicious 2.0.7 release was published, and thousands of CI runs executed, demonstrating active exploitation of CVE‑2024‑9079. No patch or workaround is mentioned in the report.
