MAL-2025-38656

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/vscode.markdown-it-renderer/MAL-2025-38656.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-38656
Published
2025-08-14T18:52:04Z
Modified
2025-10-30T06:50:52Z
Summary
Malicious code in vscode.markdown-it-renderer (npm)
Details

The package vscode.markdown-it-renderer was found to contain malicious code.

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Source: google-open-source-security (2822922f8dca5f68d170c921999dd1e45b4dd8b470e088d9aadbe5806cc2069b)

This package installs a dependency hosted on a custom domain that runs an info stealer during installation. The info stealer focuses on stealing npm, git, and other CI/CD related tokens.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "modified_time": "2025-10-30T03:28:23Z",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.0"
            ],
            "sha256": "2822922f8dca5f68d170c921999dd1e45b4dd8b470e088d9aadbe5806cc2069b",
            "source": "google-open-source-security",
            "import_time": "2025-10-30T03:28:39.137002Z"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / vscode.markdown-it-renderer

Package

Name
vscode.markdown-it-renderer
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Purl
pkg:npm/vscode.markdown-it-renderer

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*
1.0.0

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/vscode.markdown-it-renderer/MAL-2025-38656.json"