{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including tailwind-extension-kit.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-14189 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-2026-14189 is a malicious package in tailwind-extension-kit, published on 19 Aug 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-14189 is a malicious package: tailwind-extension-kit (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-2026-14189/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-14189/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-14189","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-14189/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-14189","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 is presented as a Tailwind CSS utility, but its default export `getPlugin` fetches JSON from a hardcoded bare-IP endpoint (https://31.97.137.157:45000/icons/109) and passes the returned `data.credits` field to `new Function(...)` bound with `require`, `process`, `module`, and `Buffer`, then invokes it. Following the README's instruction to register the default export as a Tailwind plugin causes Tailwind to invoke `getPlugin`, executing attacker-controlled JavaScript with full Node.js capabilities on the developer's machine. Cover-story framing (variables named `IconProvider`/`iconDomain`, a CDN hostname map for cloudflare/fastly/akamai/cloudfront, a `/ajax/libs/font-awesome/...` path fragment, a `bearrtoken: \"logo\"` header, and an unused `setDefaultModule` decoy) masks the loader as icon retrieval. Declared runtime dependencies (`@primno/dpapi`, `better-sqlite3`, `node-machine-id`) are consistent with browser-credential and cookie-stealer payloads that the fetched code can deploy.","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 tailwind-extension-kit (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-14189","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":"tailwind-extension-kit","purl":"pkg:npm/tailwind-extension-kit","source":"MAL-2026-14189"}],"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-2026-14189/"}