MAL-2025-55021

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/web-vitals-help/MAL-2025-55021.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-55021
Aliases
  • GHSA-3qrr-c46g-crg2
Published
2025-11-10T05:52:58Z
Modified
2025-11-10T16:42:40Z
Summary
Malicious code in web-vitals-help (npm)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (204b3a82026288b65a149e983d855812d21ccc8c61952dcb037c926c2b3a3452)

The package web-vitals-help was found to contain malicious code.

Source: ghsa-malware (93e30ad20be59206c5d91e0d2bff19f6c6969c69dc3ebc477ae0c980cc3d242a)

Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "id": "GHSA-3qrr-c46g-crg2",
            "import_time": "2025-11-10T06:24:55.201697842Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-11-10T05:52:58Z",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "SEMVER"
                }
            ],
            "sha256": "93e30ad20be59206c5d91e0d2bff19f6c6969c69dc3ebc477ae0c980cc3d242a",
            "source": "ghsa-malware"
        },
        {
            "import_time": "2025-11-10T16:42:06.785470699Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-11-10T16:31:05Z",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "SEMVER"
                }
            ],
            "sha256": "204b3a82026288b65a149e983d855812d21ccc8c61952dcb037c926c2b3a3452",
            "source": "amazon-inspector"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / web-vitals-help

Package

Name
web-vitals-help
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:npm/web-vitals-help

Affected ranges

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

Database specific

cwes 
[
    {
        "cweId": "CWE-506",
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code"
    }
]
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/web-vitals-help/MAL-2025-55021.json"