MAL-2026-13949 Malicious code in external-process-live-log (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-13949 is a malicious package: external-process-live-log (npm). Every version was published to cause harm.
Task:
1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.
2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.
3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.
4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13949/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13949/index.md)
- Package
- external-process-live-log
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-13949?
MAL-2026-13949 is a malicious package in external-process-live-log, published on 13 Aug 2026.
Official description
The package's default export issues an HTTPS request to the hardcoded bare-IP endpoint https://31.97.137.157:45000/icons/107 (with a 'bearrtoken: logo' header and a font-awesome-styled path used as cover) and passes the response's
credits field into a new Function('require','module',...,'Promise', data.credits) constructor, executing attacker-supplied JavaScript with full Node context on the consumer's host. The package.json describes the module as a 'TypeScript SDK for the Polymarket CLOB API' and declares unused dependencies associated with credential access on Windows (@primno/dpapi, node-machine-id, better-sqlite3, socket.io-client) that index.js never references; a setDefaultModule helper fabricates a plausible CDN-style URL string that is not actually used, serving as cover for the bare-IP fetch. The package name and README frame the module as a simple process logger, which conflicts with both the declared Polymarket SDK metadata and the observed remote-execution behavior.What should I do about MAL-2026-13949?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.