{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including devplatform-confirm-input.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-12705 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-2026-12705 is a malicious package in devplatform-confirm-input, published on 5 Aug 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-12705 is a malicious package: devplatform-confirm-input (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-2026-12705/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12705/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-12705","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12705/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-12705","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"devplatform-confirm-input@35.9.8 is advertised as a 'confirm input adapter' but on require() executes _ext.js, which fetches a platform-specific binary from string-concatenation-obfuscated Cloudflare Workers hosts (oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev), writes it to a temp path disguised as dotnet_diag_*.exe or a hidden.cache_* file, chmods it 0755, and spawns it detached via cmd.exe or /bin/sh. If HTTPS fails, a DNS-TXT chunked base64 fallback channel over sdk.dl.wel1.ru, ext.dl.wel1.ru, pkg.dl.wel1.ru, and net.dl.wel1.ru retrieves the payload. C2 hostnames and DNS-fallback domains are split into token arrays and reassembled at runtime, and the dropper uses cover-story identifiers ('.analytics_state', 'dotnet_diag_', 'Graceful degradation') to evade static analysis. Installing or importing this package results in remote code execution on the installer's host under attacker-controlled bytes.","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 devplatform-confirm-input (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-12705","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":"devplatform-confirm-input","purl":"pkg:npm/devplatform-confirm-input","source":"MAL-2026-12705"}],"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-2026-12705/"}