MAL-2026-12350 Malicious code in chart-data-utils (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-12350 is a malicious package: chart-data-utils (npm). Every version was published to cause harm.
Task:
1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.
2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.
3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.
4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12350/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12350/index.md)
- Package
- chart-data-utils
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-12350?
MAL-2026-12350 is a malicious package in chart-data-utils, published on 5 Aug 2026.
Official description
[email protected] advertises itself as a chart data/color helper library (index.js contains only trivial color utilities), but ships a postinstall.js that runs at npm install time and performs credential harvesting and host reconnaissance. The postinstall shells out via child_process.exec to: (1) collect hostname, whoami/id output, Docker/cgroup indicators, sudo -ln, ps aux, ip addr/route; (2) enumerate process environment variables and grep-filter for KEY|TOKEN|SECRET|CREDENTIAL|NPM_TOKEN|AWS_|AZURE|GCP|GITHUB_TOKEN plus GitHub Actions identity fields (GITHUB_TOKEN, GITHUB_REPOSITORY, GITHUB_ACTOR, RUN_ID); (3) probe cloud instance-metadata endpoints at 169.254.169.254 (AWS), 100.100.100.200 (Aliyun), metadata.google.internal (GCP), metadata.tencentyun.com (Tencent), and an internal host tst.woa.com; (4) base64-encode the collected data and POST/GET it over plain HTTP to the hardcoded Burp Collaborator subdomain pzs5w7ntzhsnepwk564lyfdci3oucl0a.oastify.com. The package name/description are a cover story for a CI credential harvester; Chinese-language comments ("分片回传版") in the postinstall reference tst.woa.com.
What should I do about MAL-2026-12350?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.