{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including log-res.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-14292 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-2026-14292 is a malicious package in log-res, published on 19 Aug 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-14292 is a malicious package: log-res (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-2026-14292/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-14292/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-14292","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-14292/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-14292","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"index.js re-exports a `desKey` string sourced from apps/docs/app/theta.js, which reads apps/docs/app/des.db as UTF-8. des.db contains a heavily obfuscated JavaScript program (string-array + hex-name mangling) that, when evaluated, creates a directory under the OS temp directory, writes a synthetic package.json declaring runtime dependencies on axios, better-sqlite3, node-machine-id, and socket.io-client, spawns `npm install` inside that directory, and then spawns `node` on a staged index.js. The payload is disguised as a database file (`des.db`) rather than shipped as source, and the stager fetches and runs a socket.io-client-based remote agent capable of receiving commands from an attacker-controlled endpoint. The package's advertised purpose (a docs/monorepo TheData API helper) does not require embedding or exporting an obfuscated executable blob.","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 log-res (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-14292","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":"log-res","purl":"pkg:npm/log-res","source":"MAL-2026-14292"}],"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-2026-14292/"}