{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including @medisend/auth.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-14421 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-2026-14421 is a malicious package in @medisend/auth, published on 24 Aug 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-14421 is a malicious package: @medisend/auth (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-2026-14421/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-14421/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-14421","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-14421/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-14421","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-cpvc-ph75-5rf3"],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"package.json declares a postinstall lifecycle script that runs `curl` against https://webhook.site/74ed1be3-96d6-48c3-932b-6b1dbabaff97 with the installer's hostname appended as a query parameter (`?pkg=medisend-auth-$(hostname)`). On `npm install`, this fires automatically and transmits an installer-identifying host indicator to a third-party anonymous collector endpoint controlled by whoever holds the webhook.site token. The @medisend/* scope and the package name pattern are consistent with dependency-confusion beaconing against an internal namespace.\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 @medisend/auth (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-14421","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":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"@medisend/auth","purl":"pkg:npm/%40medisend/auth","source":"MAL-2026-14421"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-08-24","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-2026-14421/"}