MAL-2026-11003

See a problem?
Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/n8n-nodes-net-utils/MAL-2026-11003.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-11003
Published
2026-07-22T20:36:06Z
Modified
2026-07-23T07:52:00.054069652Z
Summary
Malicious code in n8n-nodes-net-utils (npm)
Details

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

Source: amazon-inspector (5ddadbbcb032b0a9eb2b0acb04579ceb1da5c1814d3a0d212830b82191dbeca0)

The package advertises itself as an n8n community 'Network Utils' node, but its main entry (index.js) is an IIFE that executes on require. On load it: (1) spawns /bin/bash and connects it to a hardcoded C2 at 103.27.109.184:8895 over /dev/tcp, providing an interactive reverse shell to the installer's machine; (2) collects host reconnaissance (hostname, id, hostname -I, docker ps, kubelet.conf, ~/.kube/config, Evolution API admin/admin probes) and sends the results over raw TCP to 103.27.109.184 on ports 8890 and 8891; (3) uses docker run -v /:/host and a privileged nsenter -t 1 container escape to append an attacker ssh-ed25519 key (labeled 'n8n-backdoor') into /root/.ssh/authorized_keys on the underlying Docker host with mode 600, establishing persistent root SSH access; (4) reads Kubernetes credentials (/etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf and /root/.kube/config) from the host via the same Docker bind-mount and ships them to the C2. The included MyNode.js is a trivial no-op n8n node acting as cover; a package/ subdirectory contains an earlier variant with the same C2 IP.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "sha256": "5ddadbbcb032b0a9eb2b0acb04579ceb1da5c1814d3a0d212830b82191dbeca0",
            "modified_time": "2026-07-22T20:36:06Z",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.2"
            ],
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-010826",
            "import_time": "2026-07-22T20:59:13.392690618Z"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "ee47947db4cba8f586ba57b7efd47b9065a59b0f4bc992d26ad6dfb84617403a",
            "modified_time": "2026-07-22T20:38:21Z",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.0"
            ],
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-010841",
            "import_time": "2026-07-22T20:59:15.447644146Z"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "f6ac70eee44c61024909cdc0e5295a015cd2cbbfbec1fa3f498cc5e64497603a",
            "modified_time": "2026-07-22T20:38:03Z",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.1"
            ],
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-010839",
            "import_time": "2026-07-22T20:59:15.147353421Z"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / n8n-nodes-net-utils

Package

Name
n8n-nodes-net-utils
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:npm/n8n-nodes-net-utils

Affected ranges

Affected versions

1.*
1.0.0
1.0.1
1.0.2

Database specific

indicators 
{
    "package_integrity": [
        {
            "hashes": {
                "sha512_sri": "sha512-LoJ5WstVxeHcxpUorwOAJfLtGJmdXlIXWVut+YWrfJs4FmDaa1g8SE4UxpslPqF4akhdDWNgXanKflC1eT3qhg==",
                "sha1": "688d8bcf058bdb2fcbc51e9130e0c480e282e610"
            },
            "filename": "n8n-nodes-net-utils-1.0.2.tgz"
        }
    ],
    "evidence_files": [
        {
            "sha256": "e8d6fa7ec31ff9fca1502d4104bfa869f0563088ac44641abb638ae7f0d09b98",
            "tlsh": "96511edabeb85620b539b0dc26db34063987c10a0682fa949067cb217e8e7cd86395e5",
            "path": "index.js"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "c085e8fefcaab36ce1200d2c573f6eb29bd4d8c215ea347470979243edf09c2f",
            "tlsh": "ffd023150d33da3311c49e513a7e96153a690ca68088f9199747181943ad6f714fa21c",
            "path": "package.json"
        }
    ]
}
cwes 
[
    {
        "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."
    }
]
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/n8n-nodes-net-utils/MAL-2026-11003.json"