{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including simplenewnpmpackage.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-16479 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-2026-16479 is a malicious package in simplenewnpmpackage, published on 23 Sep 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-16479 is a malicious package: simplenewnpmpackage (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-2026-16479/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-16479/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-16479","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-16479/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-16479","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"On require/import, index.js issues an HTTPS GET to a hardcoded interactsh OAST subdomain (dapnhid534ch06s9vpm0mbg1httu5gytc.oast.fun) with the installer's os.platform() and os.hostname() as query parameters. The package ships no other functionality; its main module exists solely to fire this out-of-band beacon on load. oast.fun is a public out-of-band interaction collector used to receive callbacks from targets, and the hardcoded subdomain is bound to a specific listener controlled by whoever published the package. This is the canonical dependency-confusion / namesquat probe pattern, in which a package is published to catch internal-name mis-resolutions and report back the host that installed 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 simplenewnpmpackage (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-16479","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":"simplenewnpmpackage","purl":"pkg:npm/simplenewnpmpackage","source":"MAL-2026-16479"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-09-23","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-2026-16479/"}