{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including @sidp-kiosk/test-npm-snurkeburk-hackerone.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-14161 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-2026-14161 is a malicious package in @sidp-kiosk/test-npm-snurkeburk-hackerone, published on 19 Aug 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-14161 is a malicious package: @sidp-kiosk/test-npm-snurkeburk-hackerone (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-2026-14161/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-14161/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-14161","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-14161/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-14161","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"The package's package.json declares a preinstall script that runs index.js automatically on `npm install`. index.js shells out via child_process.exec to collect the installer's hostname, current working directory, username, a package marker, and the machine's public IP (fetched via curl to ifconfig.me). The aggregated output is hex-encoded with xxd and split into DNS labels queried via nslookup against subdomains of snurkeburk.com, a DNS-tunnel exfiltration channel that bypasses egress HTTP filtering. Installing this package causes host identifiers and public IP to leave the machine to an attacker-controlled DNS namespace.","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 @sidp-kiosk/test-npm-snurkeburk-hackerone (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-14161","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":"@sidp-kiosk/test-npm-snurkeburk-hackerone","purl":"pkg:npm/%40sidp-kiosk/test-npm-snurkeburk-hackerone","source":"MAL-2026-14161"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-08-19","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-2026-14161/"}