MAL-2026-18616 | Vulnetix

MAL-2026-18616 PUBLISHED

Record from oss-malicious-packages

Part of a self-republishing campaign: generated names of the form <adjective>_<animal>_<colour>-<number>, each package shipping the same autopublish.js, which runs `npm publish --access public` to publish the package again. Self-replicating publication is the propagation step of a registry worm and fills the registry with copies. Version examined: 2.2.2; tarball SHA-256 223ace08ab038a6ee47fd7d04a2f489d9d4817d4b147f164be1de264918235c1.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
npm	smooth_angelfish_emerald-54	2.2.2

Timeline

Nov 2, 2026 CVE Updated

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vulnetix vdb vuln MAL-2026-18616
vulnetix vdb fixes MAL-2026-18616

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  "https://api.vdb.vulnetix.com/v2/vuln/MAL-2026-18616/fixes/registry"

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