{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including clerk-next-fix-auth-protection.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-11069 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-2026-11069 is a malicious package in clerk-next-fix-auth-protection, published on 24 Jul 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-11069 is a malicious package: clerk-next-fix-auth-protection (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-2026-11069/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-11069/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-11069","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-11069/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-11069","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"clerk-next-fix-auth-protection@8.8.8 is a typosquat of Clerk/Next.js auth tooling that ships no functional code (declared main index.js is absent from the tarball). Both preinstall and postinstall lifecycle hooks in package.json run a plain-HTTP curl to http://u3ukeehm.requestrepo.com/depconf/clerk-next-fix-auth-protection/ with the installer's username (whoami), hostname, current working directory, and timestamp embedded in the query string. The beacon fires unconditionally on npm install, targets an anonymous requestrepo.com subdomain, and constitutes a dependency-confusion/typosquat reconnaissance probe that exfiltrates installer identity to an attacker-controlled endpoint.\n\nThe OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'clerk-next-fix-auth-protection' @ 8.8.8 (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 clerk-next-fix-auth-protection (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-11069","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":"clerk-next-fix-auth-protection","purl":"pkg:npm/clerk-next-fix-auth-protection","source":"MAL-2026-11069"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-07-24","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-2026-11069/"}