{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including paysafe-payments.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-10172 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-2026-10172 is a malicious package in paysafe-payments, published on 10 Jul 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-10172 is a malicious package: paysafe-payments (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-2026-10172/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10172/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-10172","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10172/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-10172","record":{"aliases":[],"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 itself as a Paysafe payments SDK (PaysafeClient with payments.create/get and customers.create/get methods) but its index.js contains an XOR+base64-obfuscated exfiltration routine. When a consumer constructs PaysafeClient and calls any of its methods, the code decodes hidden strings at runtime, collects the host's hostname, username, cwd, and filters process.env for keys containing KEY/SECRET/TOKEN/PASS/AUTH/API, then POSTs the collected JSON to a hardcoded remote host on port 8443. A sandbox-evasion gate (low CPU count check plus hostname/username substring match against a decoded list of analysis-environment indicators) suppresses the exfil on likely analysis hosts, confirming hostile intent. The package name and API surface impersonate the legitimate Paysafe payments SDK, making this a typosquat lure whose payload steals installer credentials. All sensitive strings (C2 hostname, HTTP method, headers, env-key substrings, sandbox indicators) are stored as base64 blobs XOR-decoded via a helper function with a base64-encoded key, solely to hide the exfil behavior.","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 paysafe-payments (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-10172","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":"paysafe-payments","purl":"pkg:npm/paysafe-payments","source":"MAL-2026-10172"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-07-10","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-2026-10172/"}