MAL-2026-11053

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/app-data-lts/MAL-2026-11053.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-11053
Aliases
  • GHSA-c6xr-m3x3-23fm
Published
2026-07-24T17:20:25Z
Modified
2026-08-05T06:36:01.579174942Z
Summary
Malicious code in app-data-lts (npm)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (2f9d67601ec8b46265e1f23f5e48ff5beb050626f4bc156b291cb1b8f8c36d35)

package.json declares postinstall node test.js and main: index.js, but index.js is absent from the tarball. test.js executes require('.'), which throws immediately because the main module is missing, so the postinstall hook fails. README describes an unrelated 'ts-api' project, author metadata is empty, and dependencies include a package named child_process that name-squats the Node.js core module. No exfiltration, remote fetch, credential access, or executable payload is present in the shipped files. The shape is consistent with either a broken publish, a placeholder, or a staged release awaiting a payload in a future version, but as shipped the package has no code path that harms an installer.

Source: ghsa-malware (82f35120670504586b6090e4cac9dd795b88170e1da09a6f0ad6955b665a6cda)

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": [
        {
            "source": "ghsa-malware",
            "sha256": "82f35120670504586b6090e4cac9dd795b88170e1da09a6f0ad6955b665a6cda",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "SEMVER"
                }
            ],
            "modified_time": "2026-07-24T17:20:25Z",
            "id": "GHSA-c6xr-m3x3-23fm",
            "import_time": "2026-07-25T00:15:45.725407275Z"
        },
        {
            "modified_time": "2026-08-05T05:29:51Z",
            "sha256": "2f9d67601ec8b46265e1f23f5e48ff5beb050626f4bc156b291cb1b8f8c36d35",
            "versions": [
                "2.1.6"
            ],
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-013071",
            "import_time": "2026-08-05T06:00:37.786968232Z"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / app-data-lts

Package

Name
app-data-lts
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Purl
pkg:npm/app-data-lts

Affected ranges

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

Affected versions

2.*
2.1.6

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"
    }
]
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/app-data-lts/MAL-2026-11053.json"
indicators 
{
    "evidence_files": [
        {
            "path": "package.json",
            "sha256": "2aeb6a57bad41bb1cb47ab14e622d860e87875670ec7791d5967e04785888e57",
            "tlsh": "50f0ed27ca588e6318f135a8287c0617f291a32f4100880f35bd664c4fb72331089f1e"
        }
    ]
}