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MAL-2026-18186

MAL-2026-18186 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL

Record from oss-malicious-packages · Published October 22, 2026

--- _-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_ ## Source: amazon-inspector (7bf1dbafca56ccfcb849f9ebb80b7a1cdf42007fd12618492620e0f7660476b2) The package has no native source files but ships a binding.gyp whose sole target is type:'none' and whose sources array uses GYP command expansion (`<!(env node index.js...)`) to execute index.js during `node-gyp rebuild`, which npm invokes automatically whenever a binding.gyp is present. index.js is a Caesar-cipher-obfuscated IIFE whose decoded body imports node:crypto, reads the shipped data.bin blob, AES-128-GCM-decrypts it with hardcoded key/iv/aad, brotli-decompresses the result into a temporary file, and spawns that file under the Bun runtime (declared as the package's only dependency). The combination — binding.gyp with no native sources used purely as an install-time execution smuggler, an obfuscated eval-based loader, and an opaque encrypted payload executed under an alternate runtime — is a packed dropper with no legitimate function for a stated utility library.

Risk scores

CVSS 4.0
9.300000190734863
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected products

VendorProductVersions
npmnet-codec-testmetest1.0.1

Timeline

  • Oct 22, 2026 CVE Published

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