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Bulletin: Important information about ChainDrop npm Worm supply-chain attack


Impact: No direct impact identified to Autodesk products or services.

Original Publish: 08/04/2026

Updated: 08/09/2026

 

Autodesk’s investigation is complete. Autodesk has not identified any direct impact to our products or services.

Severity CVSS Score Impact
Low 0.1 - 3.9 A vulnerability where scope and impact of exploitation is restricted and the ability to exploit is extremely difficult.
Medium 4.0 - 6.9 A vulnerability where exploitation is mitigated by factors such as difficulty to exploit, default configuration or ease of identification.
High 7.0 - 8.9 A vulnerability, which if exploited, would directly impact the confidentiality, integrity or availability of user's data or processing resources.
Critical 9.0 - 10 A vulnerability, which if exploited, would allow remote execution of malicious code without user action.

Summary

Autodesk is aware of a supply chain attack involving npm packages and a self-propagating worm that compromises JavaScript packages.

 

Autodesk’s investigation is complete. Autodesk has not identified any direct impact to our products or services.

 

Description

The attack is a variant of Shai-Hulud, named ChainDrop, that targets software developers and CI/CD systems by compromising legitimate package maintainers and then using those trusted packages to spread malware automatically.

 

Read more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/08/04/chaindrop-supply-chain-compromise-anatomy-self-propagating-worm/


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