{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including n8n-nodes-probe.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-10777 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-2026-10777 is a malicious package in n8n-nodes-probe, published on 17 Jul 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-10777 is a malicious package: n8n-nodes-probe (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-2026-10777/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10777/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-10777","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10777/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-10777","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 advertises itself as an n8n community-node utility but its main entry index.js executes a recon routine at module load. On require, it reads AWS, GCP, and Azure credential files, kubeconfig, the Kubernetes service-account token at /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token, SSH private keys and authorized_keys, and filters process.env for variables matching token/secret/key/password/aws/npm/github. It also collects hostname, uid/gid, network interfaces, /proc/net/route, /etc/resolv.conf, mounts, ps aux, /proc/1/cgroup, ARP table, and probes cloud instance metadata endpoints (169.254.169.254 and metadata.google.internal) and internal services (Docker API on 172.17.0.1:2375, K8s/GKE API on 10.0.42.16:6443, Jenkins). All collected data is POSTed to a hardcoded webhook.site endpoint. A shipped pkg_tmp.json carries an alternate package name (n8n-nodes-task-runner), consistent with republication of the same payload under multiple names. The MyNode.js stub is an empty n8n TaskRunner shell serving only as cover for the recon payload in index.js.\n\nThe OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'n8n-nodes-probe' @ 1.0.6 (npm) as malicious.\n\nIt is considered malicious because:\n\n- The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious 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 n8n-nodes-probe (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-10777","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":"n8n-nodes-probe","purl":"pkg:npm/n8n-nodes-probe","source":"MAL-2026-10777"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-07-17","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-2026-10777/"}