MAL-2026-17769

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/deposit-limit-fe/MAL-2026-17769.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-17769
Published
2026-10-11T13:51:21Z
Modified
2026-10-11T14:30:09Z
Summary
Malicious code in deposit-limit-fe (npm)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (89565d767d3541470834dc9764af6e4abbe4acb5ba4eb721f7e3008e3a80b1d2)

deposit-limit-fe@100.100.101 is published as a 'Deposit limit frontend utilities' library but its main entry (index.js) exports an empty object and ships no real functionality. package.json declares postinstall: node postinstall.js, which require()s a bundled Linux x64 native addon at prebuilds/linux-x64/addon.node inside a silenced try/catch. The addon has no corresponding C/C++ source or binding.gyp in the tarball. On load it reads the environment variables HOSTNAME, USER, npm_package_name, and npm_config_registry, forks, opens a TCP socket to the hardcoded bare IP 64.181.165.115, and sends POST /dc HTTP/1.0 with a form-encoded body h=<hostname>&p=<package>&u=<user>&r=<registry>. The anomalous 100.100.101 version and the explicit exfiltration of npm_config_registry are the fingerprint of a dependency-confusion reconnaissance beacon targeting an internal/private npm registry package name. Installing this package automatically leaks the installer's hostname, OS username, and private npm registry URL to an attacker-controlled endpoint and executes opaque native code on the installer's machine.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-021403",
            "import_time": "2026-10-11T14:18:02.732761648Z",
            "modified_time": "2026-10-11T13:54:04Z",
            "sha256": "5d9979b248f0b54166231be6cbcf674c11d79446d9fb4053ffd194eefcadae66",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "versions": [
                "100.100.106"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-021384",
            "import_time": "2026-10-11T14:18:01.241237037Z",
            "modified_time": "2026-10-11T13:51:21Z",
            "sha256": "89565d767d3541470834dc9764af6e4abbe4acb5ba4eb721f7e3008e3a80b1d2",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "versions": [
                "100.100.101"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-021412",
            "import_time": "2026-10-11T14:18:03.466691517Z",
            "modified_time": "2026-10-11T13:55:31Z",
            "sha256": "7d6d19a0a025ec14ff2ad68cb60c256485c54d34ae5641f6fe90ff86c9d1b011",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "versions": [
                "100.100.102"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / deposit-limit-fe

Package

Name
deposit-limit-fe
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:npm/deposit-limit-fe

Affected ranges

Affected versions

100.*
100.100.101
100.100.102
100.100.106

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"
    }
]
indicators 
{
    "evidence_files": [
        {
            "path": "index.js",
            "sha256": "8de7610c46a9f8fd0bff78671c76d73965a5282b104892c42733b947167f1865",
            "tlsh": "58f02bbe4a7455a01ed7220dd33fb80be8e7f1376c8e95407e9d76910f7461222451f9"
        }
    ],
    "package_integrity": [
        {
            "filename": "deposit-limit-fe-100.100.106.tgz",
            "hashes": {
                "sha1": "7afda7e361c70d76bdc2b92a65d82d485b4e5743",
                "sha512_sri": "sha512-LmXowuQKWJMkhPKZSIzvF4iIx7i41VjeKJpdtQl0rJ6IkolK/cUCcvB8LcJp0U9JR2KgX1iJ0zN4pmgBmkOZmA=="
            }
        }
    ]
}
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/deposit-limit-fe/MAL-2026-17769.json"