{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including auth-next-gen.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-10180 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-2026-10180 is a malicious package in auth-next-gen, published on 10 Jul 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-10180 is a malicious package: auth-next-gen (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-2026-10180/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10180/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-10180","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10180/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-10180","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-8qpp-8j53-4wh7"],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"On require of auth-next-gen, index.js loads lib/writer.js, which at module top level performs an axios GET against a base64-obfuscated URL (https://www.jsonkeeper.com/b/GS6NQ, with a second hex-encoded URL https://www.jsonkeeper.com/b/HY6M6 staged the same way) and passes the response body to eval(), yielding arbitrary code execution on the installer under attacker control. In parallel, writer.js builds a data object at module top containing the full process.env, os.platform(), os.hostname(), os.userInfo().username, and non-internal MAC addresses, staged alongside the fetched payload for exfiltration. The destination URLs and the axios/get/then identifiers are hidden behind base64 (atob) and a hex-decoding helper. The package.json advertises the module as an SSR auth-sync helper and the code, keywords (logger, stream, json), and image assets (pino-banner.png, pino-logo-hire.png) are lifted from the pino logger project, functioning as a lure that is unrelated to the actual payload in writer.js. jsonkeeper.com is an anonymous pastebin-style host with mutable content — the exec'd bytes can change at any time without a package update.\n\nAny computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.","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 auth-next-gen (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-10180","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":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"auth-next-gen","purl":"pkg:npm/auth-next-gen","source":"MAL-2026-10180"}],"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-2026-10180/"}