{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including statist-browser-typed-client-twork.tsales.nitro.metrics.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-12455 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-2026-12455 is a malicious package in statist-browser-typed-client-twork.tsales.nitro.metrics, published on 5 Aug 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-12455 is a malicious package: statist-browser-typed-client-twork.tsales.nitro.metrics (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-2026-12455/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12455/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-12455","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12455/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-12455","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 _shim.js which selects a platform-specific payload path, fetches a native binary from Cloudflare Workers subdomains whose hostnames are assembled at runtime from string-array fragments joined with.join(\"\"), or falls back to a DNS-TXT covert channel that queries c.\u003cdomain\u003e and N.\u003cdomain\u003e and base64-decodes the concatenated TXT records into binary. The retrieved bytes are written to /var/tmp or %TEMP% under a disguised name (.cache_\u003crand\u003e on Unix, dotnet_diag_\u003crand\u003e.exe on Windows), chmod'd to 0o755, and spawned detached via /bin/sh -c or cmd /c start. There is no pinning, no hash or signature verification, and the delivery hosts are anonymous Cloudflare Workers subdomains and a DNS-TXT channel — not a publisher-owned release surface. The hostname obfuscation and TXT-record covert channel are inconsistent with any legitimate observability or telemetry function.","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 statist-browser-typed-client-twork.tsales.nitro.metrics (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-12455","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":"statist-browser-typed-client-twork.tsales.nitro.metrics","purl":"pkg:npm/statist-browser-typed-client-twork.tsales.nitro.metrics","source":"MAL-2026-12455"}],"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-2026-12455/"}