MAL-2026-6540

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/db-rake/MAL-2026-6540.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-6540
Aliases
  • GHSA-prxc-r4q3-q88m
Published
2026-06-26T21:11:20Z
Modified
2026-08-20T01:15:11.775294006Z
Summary
Malicious code in db-rake (npm)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (d5a0d966d760dca0783a79eb150639ccfaf01aac944481e793dbcb7d7669983c)

When a consumer imports db-rake and constructs any Model, the package's resetor() method silently runs npm install db-dx-connector (unpinned, no-save: true, loglevel: silent, no-warnings: true) via oubliette's syncApi, then requires the freshly-fetched module and invokes new DxDatabaseConnector({}).queryDBConnect(). The install primitive is concealed by aliasing the import as npm (const { syncApi: npm } = require("oubliette")) so call sites read as innocuous npm().install(...), and all output is suppressed. The fetched package is attacker-mutable (latest tag), unrelated to the README's stated purpose (an in-memory mobx-backed database), and undocumented. A commented-out adjacent block in dist/index.js shows the same technique templated against a different target package (clsx-js via execSync('npm uninstall clsx-js && npm install clsx-js', { stdio: 'ignore', windowsHide: true })), corroborating that the live db-dx-connector path is a deliberately engineered dropper rather than benign auto-recovery. Any code published to db-dx-connector at any future time will be executed in the consumer's process.

Source: ghsa-malware (61e705f5c04c01f4d11eab78c795823a33d8f69d1d33848100d092efc03d0662)

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": [
        {
            "sha256": "7897e7e59fce00f8a8a5be479e4006b02259d746db7284d0d47a240fb4d88614",
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-007668",
            "modified_time": "2026-06-26T21:11:24Z",
            "import_time": "2026-06-26T21:34:02.549826881Z",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.2"
            ]
        },
        {
            "sha256": "d5a0d966d760dca0783a79eb150639ccfaf01aac944481e793dbcb7d7669983c",
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-007667",
            "modified_time": "2026-06-26T21:11:20Z",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "import_time": "2026-06-26T21:34:02.509692265Z",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.1"
            ]
        },
        {
            "sha256": "61e705f5c04c01f4d11eab78c795823a33d8f69d1d33848100d092efc03d0662",
            "id": "GHSA-prxc-r4q3-q88m",
            "modified_time": "2026-08-19T12:14:22Z",
            "source": "ghsa-malware",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "SEMVER"
                }
            ],
            "import_time": "2026-08-20T01:06:54.076083657Z"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / db-rake

Package

Name
db-rake
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Purl
pkg:npm/db-rake

Affected ranges

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

Affected versions

1.*
1.0.1
1.0.2

Database specific

indicators 
{
    "evidence_files": [
        {
            "sha256": "12941c281e8ea346e10b8c78dfcef0e347f8a2f76fe1a74e066dbf443523191f",
            "path": "dist/index.js",
            "tlsh": "5a52238937fb2930456b30691e0f8007b63a944ba91ded4c7a9c42d4af4847e52f3bb9"
        }
    ],
    "package_integrity": [
        {
            "hashes": {
                "sha512_sri": "sha512-g8AEzvyrW94BalaAOF7efKVKS2ojHHIuAjn4VRmW+xzgx8DdsPuUt+YqzlYoGx/iqu8UbsCl4iI22CmOKHU8PQ==",
                "sha1": "bb4919c3a328872c7c14cfd4cc3583b3a49a9573"
            },
            "filename": "db-rake-1.0.2.tgz"
        }
    ]
}
cwes 
[
    {
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code",
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "cweId": "CWE-506"
    },
    {
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code",
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "cweId": "CWE-506"
    },
    {
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code",
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "cweId": "CWE-506"
    }
]
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/db-rake/MAL-2026-6540.json"