{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including bigops-create-manifest.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-12037 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-2026-12037 is a malicious package in bigops-create-manifest, published on 5 Aug 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-12037 is a malicious package: bigops-create-manifest (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-2026-12037/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12037/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-12037","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12037/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-12037","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"On require, index.js loads _polyfill.js which selects a platform-specific endpoint, downloads an opaque native binary over HTTPS from one of several Cloudflare Workers hosts (oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev), with a DNS TXT covert-channel fallback that reads base64-encoded chunks from sdk.dl.wel1.ru / ext.dl.wel1.ru / pkg.dl.wel1.ru / net.dl.wel1.ru. The fetched bytes are written to a randomized filename disguised as dotnet_diag_\u003chex\u003e.exe on Windows or.cache_\u003chex\u003e under /var/tmp on Unix, chmod 0755, and spawned detached via /bin/sh -c or cmd. C2 hostnames and resolver domains are assembled at runtime via split-string array joins; artifact naming, an analytics_state marker, and DISABLE_TELEMETRY env checks frame the operation as diagnostics. The package's advertised purpose (a manifest wrapper) has no need for downloading and executing a native binary from third-party infrastructure.","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 bigops-create-manifest (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-12037","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":"bigops-create-manifest","purl":"pkg:npm/bigops-create-manifest","source":"MAL-2026-12037"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-08-05","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-2026-12037/"}