MAL-2026-1260

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/webmd-url/MAL-2026-1260.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-1260
Aliases
  • GHSA-853v-5vhr-jmpc
Published
2026-03-06T07:28:40Z
Modified
2026-03-14T04:49:22.818847Z
Summary
Malicious code in webmd-url (npm)
Details

Package exfiltrates data via pre/postinstall scripts, and has a suspicious main entrypoint targeting MongoDB configurations. Package extracts data like username, hostname and current working directory and sends it to malicious domain http://4v6heh2m.requestrepo.com/depconf/webmd-url/

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Source: amazon-inspector (aff69380d1d2819ca9ecef11566ea52d55078bda142280a51837726adbc2b22e)

The package webmd-url was found to contain malicious code.

Source: ghsa-malware (edae03d2f7c5fd97d5e82798514e9654ad9d47f8c68aa3dd9807b6ea604e0a10)

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": "amazon-inspector",
            "modified_time": "2026-03-08T01:35:03Z",
            "import_time": "2026-03-08T01:38:01.316293881Z",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "SEMVER",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "sha256": "aff69380d1d2819ca9ecef11566ea52d55078bda142280a51837726adbc2b22e"
        },
        {
            "source": "ghsa-malware",
            "modified_time": "2026-03-12T15:46:35Z",
            "id": "GHSA-853v-5vhr-jmpc",
            "import_time": "2026-03-12T16:37:03.829064923Z",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "SEMVER",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "sha256": "edae03d2f7c5fd97d5e82798514e9654ad9d47f8c68aa3dd9807b6ea604e0a10"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / webmd-url

Package

Name
webmd-url
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:npm/webmd-url

Affected ranges

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

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/webmd-url/MAL-2026-1260.json"
cwes 
[
    {
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code",
        "cweId": "CWE-506"
    }
]