MAL-2026-16075 Malicious code in easypanel-hosting (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-16075 is a malicious package: easypanel-hosting (npm). Every version was published to cause harm.
Task:
1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.
2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.
3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.
4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-16075/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-16075/index.md)
- Package
- easypanel-hosting
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-16075?
MAL-2026-16075 is a malicious package in easypanel-hosting, published on 9 Sep 2026.
Official description
[email protected] ships a stub index.js (
module.exports = {}) and an npm preinstall lifecycle script that collects the installer's hostname, username, current working directory, and CI-related environment variable names, base64url-encodes them, and sends them off-host via a DNS lookup and an HTTP request to a hardcoded out-of-band subdomain under lyomeri.com (e.g. easypanel-hosting.<token>.oob.lyomeri.com, with the encoded payload placed in the DNS label and in the HTTP path /npm/<encoded>). The exfiltration fires automatically on npm install before any user code runs. The empty main module and package name resembling a hosting-adjacent product are consistent with a dependency-confusion or reconnaissance probe; regardless of framing, installer identity metadata leaves the machine unconditionally to an author-controlled OOB collector.What should I do about MAL-2026-16075?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.