MAL-2026-10750

See a problem?
Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/telemetry-metrics/MAL-2026-10750.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-10750
Published
2026-07-16T18:45:17Z
Modified
2026-08-19T01:45:11Z
Summary
Malicious code in telemetry-metrics (npm)
Details

-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-

Source: amazon-inspector (3ca5a92b8a793861df4d3480ffa064564909421659b72e6a9bb1f6af72847f55)

The package publishes as unscoped 'telemetry-metrics' while its README, repository, homepage, and bugs metadata all reference the legitimate @telemetry-js/telemetry project, and the bulk of the source is copied from that upstream. An added lib/plugin-options.js fetches https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ThoSuperstarDev/axios-http/main/lib/env/axios.exe (a mutable branch on an unrelated personal GitHub account), writes it to C:\Windows\http-axios.exe via fs.writeFileSync, and executes it via child_process.execFile. The pluginOptions function is invoked from lib/task.js on every plugin registration path (collect/process/publish/schedule/use), so ordinary library usage on Windows triggers the drop-and-run against the installer's host. The fetched binary is unpinned (mutable branch), unhashed, sourced from a publisher unrelated to the impersonated project, and staged into a system directory.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-010771",
            "import_time": "2026-07-16T18:54:03.844980117Z",
            "modified_time": "2026-07-16T18:45:17Z",
            "sha256": "2cd215db682d2cc6eb6c9d4f5f704b66503762047ac210160f07559c07e93dea",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "versions": [
                "0.2.1"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-010903",
            "import_time": "2026-07-28T14:19:58.336978604Z",
            "modified_time": "2026-07-28T13:34:01Z",
            "sha256": "1bb843a52a3b9144f4ab2f1233e2f48671524217cf93b7e16a85c9f5551dedb7",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "versions": [
                "0.2.5"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-014941",
            "import_time": "2026-08-05T14:19:45.072055063Z",
            "modified_time": "2026-08-05T13:14:50Z",
            "sha256": "3ca5a92b8a793861df4d3480ffa064564909421659b72e6a9bb1f6af72847f55",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "versions": [
                "0.2.3"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-015796",
            "import_time": "2026-08-05T16:13:46.025565394Z",
            "modified_time": "2026-08-05T15:41:37Z",
            "sha256": "98464f7aa81782713f6ddc5c715a283eca2df8df51fa99d92b0b8f57dc1ba2d4",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "versions": [
                "0.2.4"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-018271",
            "import_time": "2026-08-19T01:34:41.169043443Z",
            "modified_time": "2026-08-19T01:16:31Z",
            "sha256": "be4febbe54278c23fb18c8e97653087f66402b132f45929f2a8c1ebc65693f26",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "versions": [
                "0.2.2"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / telemetry-metrics

Package

Name
telemetry-metrics
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:npm/telemetry-metrics

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*
0.2.1
0.2.2
0.2.3
0.2.4
0.2.5

Database specific

cwes 
[
    {
        "cweId": "CWE-506",
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code"
    },
    {
        "cweId": "CWE-506",
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code"
    },
    {
        "cweId": "CWE-506",
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code"
    },
    {
        "cweId": "CWE-506",
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code"
    },
    {
        "cweId": "CWE-506",
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code"
    }
]
indicators 
{
    "evidence_files": [
        {
            "path": "lib/plugin-options.js",
            "sha256": "6892a090d2758a7ebad33754ef48a38ee90d6a645817871fc21d93741b3b20d0",
            "tlsh": "1df00e4b097a232693a534c082977c5fb110c1087a49c791822c0cc86d4011ce473980"
        },
        {
            "path": "package.json",
            "sha256": "f906c109a5dd32e2296fc48422173adb2b20f2448f8df2c9b1ee7a013260af67",
            "tlsh": "4e01a224ea215c630ed96aa39e6a1203b311dd275554fc0d778b431e972d4af21fe22d"
        }
    ],
    "package_integrity": [
        {
            "filename": "telemetry-metrics-0.2.1.tgz",
            "hashes": {
                "sha1": "d2a185a47fafee14e9e56c3c80378f1b9de0ba79",
                "sha512_sri": "sha512-M5mACIQpqlx+XCCcCO9U/Uwcnn4UHhmDETj6JsjTA1KzL+UqMgJN/RmStUMoURocRFtSVpSq2XQ0bIr2Z7IzPA=="
            }
        }
    ]
}
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/telemetry-metrics/MAL-2026-10750.json"