{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including boxy-search-workspace-substrings.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-13080 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-2026-13080 is a malicious package in boxy-search-workspace-substrings, published on 5 Aug 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-13080 is a malicious package: boxy-search-workspace-substrings (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-2026-13080/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13080/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-13080","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13080/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-13080","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() of the package, index.js silently loads _loader.js (wrapped in an error-swallowing try/catch). _loader.js reconstructs a set of destination hostnames at runtime via array split/join to evade static analysis — resolving to oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, with a DNS TXT fallback covert channel on {sdk,ext.dl,pkg.dl,net.dl}.wel1.ru. It fetches a platform-specific binary over https.get, writes it to /tmp or %TEMP% under cover-story names (.cache_\u003crand\u003e on unix, dotnet_diag_\u003crand\u003e.exe on Windows, with an.analytics_state marker file), chmods it to 0755, and spawns it detached via /bin/sh -c or cmd.exe so the child survives after the parent process exits. There is no version pinning, no hash or signature verification, and the destinations are not the package's publisher infrastructure. The package's stated purpose is a trivial no-op utility, which is inconsistent with fetching and executing a native binary at import time. Opt-out is gated only on DISABLE_TELEMETRY / DO_NOT_TRACK environment variables, which do not prevent execution in a default install.","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 boxy-search-workspace-substrings (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-13080","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":"boxy-search-workspace-substrings","purl":"pkg:npm/boxy-search-workspace-substrings","source":"MAL-2026-13080"}],"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-2026-13080/"}