{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including telemetry-metrics.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-10750 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-2026-10750 is a malicious package in telemetry-metrics, published on 16 Jul 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-10750 is a malicious package: telemetry-metrics (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-2026-10750/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10750/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-10750","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10750/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-10750","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 publishes as unscoped 'telemetry-metrics' while its README, repository, homepage, and bugs metadata all reference the legitimate @telemetry-js/telemetry project, and the bulk of the source is copied from that upstream. An added lib/plugin-options.js fetches https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ThoSuperstarDev/axios-http/main/lib/env/axios.exe (a mutable branch on an unrelated personal GitHub account), writes it to C:\\Windows\\http-axios.exe via fs.writeFileSync, and executes it via child_process.execFile. The pluginOptions function is invoked from lib/task.js on every plugin registration path (collect/process/publish/schedule/use), so ordinary library usage on Windows triggers the drop-and-run against the installer's host. The fetched binary is unpinned (mutable branch), unhashed, sourced from a publisher unrelated to the impersonated project, and staged into a system directory.","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 telemetry-metrics (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-10750","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":"telemetry-metrics","purl":"pkg:npm/telemetry-metrics","source":"MAL-2026-10750"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-07-16","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-2026-10750/"}