{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including arone.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-14334 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-2026-14334 is a malicious package in arone, published on 20 Aug 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-14334 is a malicious package: arone (crates.io). 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-2026-14334/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-14334/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-14334","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-14334/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-14334","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"arone is a malicious crate published to crates.io as part of the coordinated build-time payload campaign on 2026-08-20 that trojanized arrayref, internment, and append-only-vec and published the proc-macro1 typosquat of proc-macro2. It was used as an attacker-controlled dependency carrying a build-script payload; building it results in the download and execution of a remote binary from https://23.254.165.112:9089/ with 23.254.165.112:443 as command and control. All versions have been removed from crates.io. The individual build script of this crate was not analyzed directly; its behavior is attributed from the campaign.","ecosystems":["crates.io"],"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 arone (crates.io)","id":"MAL-2026-14334","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"malicious","links":{"ecosystem":"crates.io","product":null,"products":[],"type":null,"year":"2026"},"n_packages":1,"n_references":null,"packages":[{"ecosystem":"crates.io","fixed":[],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"arone","purl":"pkg:cargo/arone","source":"MAL-2026-14334"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-08-20","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-2026-14334/"}