{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including node-fsmetrics-data.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-10479 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-2026-10479 is a malicious package in node-fsmetrics-data, published on 13 Jul 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-10479 is a malicious package: node-fsmetrics-data (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-2026-10479/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10479/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-10479","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10479/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-10479","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-85wr-m3c9-v62j"],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"The tarball contains archive-sender.js, which tars the directory /root/.codex, splits the archive into 200MB chunks, and uploads each chunk by running `npm publish` against a sibling package name (node-procmetrics-data), using an npm registry `_authToken` that is XOR-obfuscated (hex bytes XOR 0x5A) and written into ~/.npmrc at runtime. The current package's hostname is embedded in the published manifest description. archive-sender.js calls archiveAndSend() at the top level, so `require`/`node` on that file triggers the archive-and-publish flow immediately. In this version index.js is empty, package.json declares no lifecycle scripts, and no other file requires archive-sender.js, so a default `npm install` does not auto-execute the payload — but the payload is fully wired and ships as a ready-to-run file inside the tarball. The obfuscated bundled publish token additionally allows anyone who extracts it to push arbitrary versions to the npm account it belongs to.\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 node-fsmetrics-data (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-10479","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":"node-fsmetrics-data","purl":"pkg:npm/node-fsmetrics-data","source":"MAL-2026-10479"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-07-13","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-2026-10479/"}