{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including @years19/n8n-nodes-utils-helper-m.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-13896 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-2026-13896 is a malicious package in @years19/n8n-nodes-utils-helper-m, published on 12 Aug 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-13896 is a malicious package: @years19/n8n-nodes-utils-helper-m (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-2026-13896/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13896/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-13896","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13896/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-13896","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 npm install, the package's postinstall script (callback.js / index.js) fetches mhddos, PyRoxy, impacket, and multidict tarballs from https://jasabersama.id/assets/cache/.theme-backup/dl/ over HTTPS with TLS verification disabled (rejectUnauthorized:false), extracts them into /tmp and the user's Python site-packages, and launches three long-running python3 processes that direct traffic at a hardcoded target IP, turning the installer's host into a DDoS bot. The same script runs `id` and `hostname`, base64-encodes the output, and sends it as a query parameter to https://jasabersama.id/portfolio-data.php, with the URL also carrying a `c=` parameter shell-composed to write attacker-supplied base64 content into /tmp/n8n_rce_result.txt. The package name suggests an n8n-nodes utility but the shipped code contains no such functionality.","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 @years19/n8n-nodes-utils-helper-m (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-13896","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":"@years19/n8n-nodes-utils-helper-m","purl":"pkg:npm/%40years19/n8n-nodes-utils-helper-m","source":"MAL-2026-13896"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-08-12","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-2026-13896/"}