Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised

In the story about the Nx compromise a few weeks ago someone posted a neat script that uses bubblewrap on Linux to run tools like npm more safely by confining their filesystem access. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45034496

I modified the script slightly based on some of the comments in the thread and my own usage patterns:

  #!/usr/bin/env bash
  #
  # See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45034496
  
  bin=$(basename "$0")
  
  echo "==========================="
  echo "Wrapping $bin in bubblewrap"
  echo "==========================="
  
  exec bwrap \
    --bind ~/.cache ~/.cache \
    --bind "${PWD}" "${PWD}" \
    --dev /dev \
    --die-with-parent \
    --disable-userns \
    --new-session \
    --proc /proc \
    --ro-bind /etc/ca-certificates /etc/ca-certificates \
    --ro-bind /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf \
    --ro-bind /etc/ssl /etc/ssl \
    --ro-bind /usr /usr \
    --setenv PATH /usr/bin \
    --symlink /usr/bin /bin \
    --symlink /usr/bin /sbin \
    --symlink /usr/lib /lib \
    --symlink /usr/lib64 /lib64 \
    --tmpfs /tmp \
    --unshare-all \
    --unshare-user \
    --share-net \
    /usr/bin/env "$bin" "$@"

Put this in `~/.local/bin` and symlink it to `~/.local/bin/npm` and `~/.local/bin/yarn` (and make sure `~/.local/bin` is first in your `$PATH`). I've been using it to wrap npm and yarn successfully in a few projects. This will protect you against some attacks that use postinstall scripts to do nefarious things outside the project.