# MAL-2025-14109: Malicious code in adorn (npm)


- **Type:** Malicious package
- **Package:** `adorn` (npm)
- **Published:** 14 Aug 2025

## What is MAL-2025-14109?

MAL-2025-14109 is a malicious package in adorn, published on 14 Aug 2025. 

### Official description

The package adorn was found to contain malicious code.

No install-time or import-time behavior of concern was observed in this package version. No lifecycle scripts performing network fetch or shell execution, no reads of installer secret paths (~/.aws, ~/.ssh, ~/.npmrc), no environment-variable scraping, no hardcoded attacker-controlled network destinations, no obfuscated payloads, and no silent-relay of caller-supplied data were identified.

## What should I do about MAL-2025-14109?

Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
MAL-2025-14109 is a malicious package: adorn (npm). Every version was published to cause harm.

Task:
1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.
2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.
3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.
4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-14109/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-14109/index.md)
```

## Sources

- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2025-14109

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-14109/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.