Prebid Universal Creative (PUC) is a JavaScript API to render multiple formats. Npm users of PUC 1.17.3 or PUC latest were briefly affected by crypto-related malware. This includes the extremely popular jsdelivr hosting of this file. The maintainers of PUC unpublished version 1.17.3. Users should see Prebid.js 9 release notes for suggestions on moving off the deprecated workflow of using the PUC or pointing to a dynamic version of it. PUC users pointing to latest should transition to 1.17.2 as soon as possible to avoid similar attacks in the future.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-27597 Prebid-universal-creative latest on npm briefly compromised
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-m662-56rj-8fmm Prebid-universal-creative latest on npm briefly compromised
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:45:00 +0000

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Description Prebid Universal Creative (PUC) is a JavaScript API to render multiple formats. Npm users of PUC 1.17.3 or PUC latest were briefly affected by crypto-related malware. This includes the extremely popular jsdelivr hosting of this file. The maintainers of PUC unpublished version 1.17.3. Users should see Prebid.js 9 release notes for suggestions on moving off the deprecated workflow of using the PUC or pointing to a dynamic version of it. PUC users pointing to latest should transition to 1.17.2 as soon as possible to avoid similar attacks in the future.
Title Prebid Universal Creative on npm briefly compromised
Weaknesses CWE-506
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 9.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2025-09-10T18:00:27.573Z

Reserved: 2025-09-08T16:19:26.171Z

Link: CVE-2025-59039

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-09-10T18:00:21.072Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-09-09T23:15:37.227

Modified: 2025-09-11T17:14:10.147

Link: CVE-2025-59039

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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