{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including react-fontawesome-icons.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-12423 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-2026-12423 is a malicious package in react-fontawesome-icons, published on 5 Aug 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-12423 is a malicious package: react-fontawesome-icons (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-2026-12423/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12423/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-12423","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12423/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-12423","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-xvfg-jp9r-63q2"],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"The default-exported React component in react-fontawesome-icons@1.0.3 performs an unconditional axios GET to http://command.control on every render and then POSTs document.cookie (together with a static data payload) to http://commad.control/404. Any consumer application that renders this icon component transmits the user's browser session cookies to a hardcoded non-first-party destination. The source uses cover-story naming and comments (`not_ma_li_ci_ous_at_all`, 'nothing harmful here LOL') and a commented base64 flag-decoder around the exfiltration call, indicating deliberate misdirection rather than accident. The package is presented as a Font Awesome icon component; icon rendering does not require any outbound network traffic, and the destination hosts are not resolvable legitimate infrastructure.\n\nAny computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.","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 react-fontawesome-icons (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-12423","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":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"react-fontawesome-icons","purl":"pkg:npm/react-fontawesome-icons","source":"MAL-2026-12423"}],"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-2026-12423/"}