{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including test-agency-assign.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-17295 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-2026-17295 is a malicious package in test-agency-assign, published on 29 Sep 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-17295 is a malicious package: test-agency-assign (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-2026-17295/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-17295/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-17295","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-17295/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-17295","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"test-agency-assign@1.0.4 declares a package.json postinstall script `wscript.exe Kelimasow.exe` that auto-executes a bundled 8.4 MB Go-compiled Windows PE (Kelimasow.exe, sha256 875c7641dc980538f3c3d8b344d173f97cf64a5d97dcf88d8e2932c83b876b92) on `npm install`. The package has no README, empty description and author fields, no source code, and no other functional content — the manifest is a thin wrapper whose sole install-time effect is to execute an opaque native binary on the installer's machine. Opaque binary + lifecycle-hook auto-execution + missing metadata is the canonical install-time RCE / dropper packaging shape, giving whoever published this arbitrary code execution on any Windows host that installs the package.","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 test-agency-assign (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-17295","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":"test-agency-assign","purl":"pkg:npm/test-agency-assign","source":"MAL-2026-17295"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-09-29","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-2026-17295/"}