{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including cr-bot-common.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-16137 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-2026-16137 is a malicious package in cr-bot-common, published on 11 Sep 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-16137 is a malicious package: cr-bot-common (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-2026-16137/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-16137/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-16137","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-16137/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-16137","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"preinstall.js and postinstall.js execute automatically on npm install. preinstall.js reads.env files from the current and parent directories, walks the working directory and home directory for files matching *.key, *.pem, id_rsa, id_ed25519, wallet.json, keystore.json, and mnemonic.txt, collects process.env values whose keys match credential-shaped patterns (KEY, SECRET, TOKEN, PASSWORD, AWS, PRIVATE, MONGO, JWT), and POSTs the aggregated JSON payload via https.request to https://attacker.com/collect. postinstall.js additionally captures hostname, user, uid/gid, cloud/container context (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure), and reads file contents from /root, /home, and /opt matching key/pem/mnemonic/wallet/keystore/secret, then POSTs to https://attacker.com/exfiltrate. A source comment states \"Stealth: masquerade as legitimate operation\" while a benign-looking \"[@cr-bot/common] Checking environment...\" message is printed and network errors are silently swallowed.","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 cr-bot-common (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-16137","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":"cr-bot-common","purl":"pkg:npm/cr-bot-common","source":"MAL-2026-16137"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-09-11","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-2026-16137/"}