MAL-2026-13610

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/f-termx/MAL-2026-13610.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-13610
Published
2026-08-07T13:42:35Z
Modified
2026-08-07T14:49:45.986091029Z
Summary
Malicious code in f-termx (npm)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (7f050d397c72fdb9336deba1e2ca6758d04625323e7bb4746d8b61964cc671ae)

The package's main entrypoint (index.js) and src/server.js start an HTTP + Socket.IO server bound to 0.0.0.0 and are designed to be published to the public internet via serveo.net / ngrok tunnels. On a spawn-shell socket.io message the server invokes pty.spawn(shell, [], { cwd: process.env.HOME... }) to start a local /bin/bash PTY and forwards subsequent shell-input websocket payloads into ptyProcess.write(data), giving any reachable network peer full-host command execution on the operator's machine. A parallel connect-ssh handler opens an SSH2 session to a caller-supplied host/user/password and pipes ssh-input websocket data into the SSH shell stream, with defaults pulled from SSH_HOST / SSH_USERNAME / SSH_PASSWORD env vars so any configured host credentials on the installer are used automatically. The web UI ships with hardcoded default credentials admin/admin, and the SSH-proxy socket.io namespace has no authentication gate at all. The child_process / spawn('ssh',...) primitives at src/server.js:210 and:639-641 corroborate the shell and SSH pivot paths.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-017081",
            "import_time": "2026-08-07T14:26:54.433735615Z",
            "sha256": "7f050d397c72fdb9336deba1e2ca6758d04625323e7bb4746d8b61964cc671ae",
            "modified_time": "2026-08-07T13:42:35Z",
            "versions": [
                "1.2.6"
            ],
            "source": "amazon-inspector"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / f-termx

Package

Name
f-termx
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Purl
pkg:npm/f-termx

Affected ranges

Affected versions

1.*
1.2.6

Database specific

cwes 
[
    {
        "cweId": "CWE-506",
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code"
    }
]
indicators 
{
    "evidence_files": [
        {
            "path": "src/server.js",
            "sha256": "67186c77e3faf39a3c7aa931be700cabe085d70808b87d4efe4b55384a0c9f9d",
            "tlsh": "89b20e7468b7102871b7e45e8f2b44063627b5033149db40bbac77902fded689ae1bf9"
        },
        {
            "path": "index.js",
            "sha256": "b7aebba7c77c02360f2f11af3253aebef400dbda222334ed2b523f71a0e3c122",
            "tlsh": "83c1950469f6203622b3a55ade5bc0073633f5033206eb40775cd79a6fd19a89792bfc"
        }
    ]
}
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/f-termx/MAL-2026-13610.json"