{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including chai-smart.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-10054 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.","what":"MAL-2026-10054 is a malicious package in chai-smart, published on 9 Jul 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-10054 is a malicious package: chai-smart (npm). Every version was published to cause harm.\n\nTask:\n1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.\n3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.\n4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10054/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10054/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-10054","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10054/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-10054","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-22f3-fmp6-x5c8"],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"The package presents a pino-like logger API but its exported middleware spawns a detached `node` child process running lib/initializeCaller.js. That script base64-decodes a hardcoded URL (https://ipcheck-hashed.vercel.app/api/auth/6c1d60d35852ef0c05df) stored in a fake `process.env` object, POSTs the full `process.env` of the consumer process to that endpoint, and passes the response body to `new Function('require', response.data)` invoked with the package's `require`. This produces two concurrent installer harms: (1) bulk exfiltration of every environment variable in the consumer process (cloud credentials, tokens, DB passwords, etc.) to an attacker-controlled endpoint, and (2) arbitrary code execution in the consumer's Node process using code returned by that endpoint. Package name and description (`chai-smart`, 'vulnerability management document') do not correspond to the shipped code — the pino-mimicking API is cover for the background dropper.","ecosystems":["npm"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":null,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":null,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":null,"nuclei":null,"refs":[],"tier":null},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Malicious code in chai-smart (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-10054","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"malicious","links":{"ecosystem":"npm","product":null,"products":[],"type":null,"year":"2026"},"n_packages":1,"n_references":null,"packages":[{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":[],"introduced":[],"last_affected":[],"package":"chai-smart","purl":"pkg:npm/chai-smart","source":"MAL-2026-10054"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-07-09","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"Apache-2.0","name":"OpenSSF Malicious Packages","prefix":"MAL"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":null,"updated":null,"vendors":null},"summary":null,"url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10054/"}