{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including tailwind-utility-kit.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-14190 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-2026-14190 is a malicious package in tailwind-utility-kit, published on 19 Aug 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-14190 is a malicious package: tailwind-utility-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-2026-14190/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-14190/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-14190","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-14190/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-14190","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 is advertised as a Tailwind CSS utility library, but the default export assembles a URL from split fragments resolving to https://31.97.137.157:45000/icons/109, fetches JSON from that endpoint, and passes the response's `credits` field to `new Function('require','module',...,'Promise', data.credits)`, invoking it with `require`, `process`, and `Buffer`. This is arbitrary attacker-controlled code execution on the host that loads the package, with full Node privileges. A decoy `setDefaultModule` referencing CDN-lookalike domains and a Font Awesome icon path is present as cover-story metadata, and the fragmented URL assembly conceals the bare-IP destination. Declared dependencies (`@primno/dpapi`, `better-sqlite3`, `node-machine-id`) are consistent with a browser-credential-stealer payload delivered via the remote loader.","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-utility-kit (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-14190","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-utility-kit","purl":"pkg:npm/tailwind-utility-kit","source":"MAL-2026-14190"}],"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-2026-14190/"}