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GCVE-110-OSM-2026-13483

GCVE-110-OSM-2026-13483
Advisory PublishedCVSS 8.8/10
Vulnetix · Advisory published October 8, 2026
The package is published as `hardhat-pack`, a name shape that resembles the Hardhat Ethereum tooling ecosystem, but its README, LICENSE, TypeScript declarations and library source are copied verbatim from the unrelated `pino` logger. The only material divergence from upstream pino is that `index.js` adds `const config = require('./lib/config');` at the top level, and `lib/config.js` is a single-line 4.4MB obfuscator.io payload: an IIFE with a ~26,000-entry hex-escaped string array and a rotating decoder. Nothing in the shipped source references `config` for a legitimate purpose, and the package carries no native build, no vendored SDK, and no other justification for a multi-megabyte opaque blob. The package also declares `axios` as a runtime dependency, consistent with network exfiltration or remote fetch from inside the decoded payload. Any process that imports `hardhat-pack` hands the opaque payload to the JavaScript engine on first require. ADDITIONAL FINDINGS - Brand New Package - Very New NPM Publisher Account

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-506Embedded Malicious Code

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
8.8/10
High · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
unknownhardhat-packall (affected)—

References

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