{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including n8n-nodes-utils-helper.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-11006 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-2026-11006 is a malicious package in n8n-nodes-utils-helper, published on 22 Jul 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-11006 is a malicious package: n8n-nodes-utils-helper (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-2026-11006/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-11006/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-11006","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-11006/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-11006","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 nodes for n8n'), but the declared community node file MyNode.js is an empty stub and the real payload lives in index.js, which is set as main and executes as a top-level IIFE the moment the package is required. On load, index.js spawns /bin/bash and connects it to 103.27.109.184:8895 via /dev/tcp, giving the operator an interactive reverse shell on the installer's host. It also collects hostname, user id, IP addresses, Docker state, environment variables, and kubelet/kubeconfig contents and streams the data as JSON to 103.27.109.184 on ports 8890 and 8891. It attempts several Docker container-escape techniques (bind-mounting the host root filesystem into an alpine container, and --privileged nsenter) to append an attacker-controlled ssh-ed25519 key tagged 'n8n-backdoor' to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys on the host, establishing persistent root SSH access. It additionally targets a specific local Docker container id and internal Evolution API endpoints with default admin/admin credentials for lateral movement. The n8n community-node metadata is a cover story for a targeted attack against n8n + Evolution API deployments.","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-utils-helper (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-11006","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-utils-helper","purl":"pkg:npm/n8n-nodes-utils-helper","source":"MAL-2026-11006"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-07-22","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-2026-11006/"}