# MAL-2025-49247: Malicious code in siren-lament (npm)


- **Type:** Malicious package
- **Package:** `siren-lament` (npm)
- **Published:** 29 Oct 2025

## What is MAL-2025-49247?

MAL-2025-49247 is a malicious package in siren-lament, published on 29 Oct 2025. 

### Official description

The package contains two files and declares no lifecycle scripts, remote fetches, credential reads, or network exfiltration paths. Version coordinate 0.0.0-stage and minimal file count are consistent with a placeholder or staging publish rather than a functional library. No code paths that would compromise an installer on npm install or require() were identified.

The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'siren-lament' @ 2.14.827 (npm) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

- The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.

## What should I do about MAL-2025-49247?

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-2025-49247 is a malicious package: siren-lament (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-2025-49247/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-49247/index.md)
```

## Sources

- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2025-49247

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-49247/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.