{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including @syncraft-labs/core.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-14367 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-2026-14367 is a malicious package in @syncraft-labs/core, published on 23 Aug 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-14367 is a malicious package: @syncraft-labs/core (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-2026-14367/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-14367/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-14367","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-14367/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-14367","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-vhcg-r2h4-gx3m"],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"The ESM build shipped at dist/index.js contains a heavily obfuscated payload (hex-identifier string-array + rotator produced by an obfuscator.io-style tool) injected into the body of isDevMode(), which executes on every `import`/`require` of the package. The injected loader captures Node internals onto globalThis (globalThis.r = require, globalThis.m = module, globalThis.i = \"A12-synd\"), then uses http/https to query Ethereum JSON-RPC endpoints (eth.drpc.org, ethereum-rpc.publicnode.com, eth-mainnet.public.blockscout.com) and an Etherscan-style txlist API for a hardcoded attacker address (0xa322E5f3...), decodes and zlib-decompresses payload bytes from transaction data, and executes them via child_process.spawn. The CJS build of the same source is clean, indicating a targeted injection into the ESM entry rather than a bundler artifact. Any process importing this package fetches attacker-controlled code from a mutable on-chain dead-drop and runs it, giving the publisher arbitrary remote code execution on the installer's host with full Node capability handed to the second stage via the globalThis handoff.\n\nAny computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.","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 @syncraft-labs/core (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-14367","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":"@syncraft-labs/core","purl":"pkg:npm/%40syncraft-labs/core","source":"MAL-2026-14367"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-08-23","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-2026-14367/"}