{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including test-agency-assignment-01.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-17296 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-2026-17296 is a malicious package in test-agency-assignment-01, published on 29 Sep 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-17296 is a malicious package: test-agency-assignment-01 (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-2026-17296/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-17296/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-17296","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-17296/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-17296","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"The tarball contains only package.json and an 8.4 MB Go-compiled Windows executable, Kelimasow.exe (sha256 875c7641dc980538f3c3d8b344d173f97cf64a5d97dcf88d8e2932c83b876b92). package.json declares scripts.postinstall = \"Kelimasow.exe\", so npm install auto-executes this binary on any Windows host. The package has no library code (main points at a nonexistent index.js), no README, no source, no build system, and empty description/author/repository fields, so there is no advertised purpose that would justify shipping an opaque native executable and no way to inspect what the binary does before it runs. Auto-executing a bundled opaque native binary from a package lifecycle hook, with no accompanying source or declared purpose, is the canonical install-time-RCE dropper shape.","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-assignment-01 (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-17296","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-assignment-01","purl":"pkg:npm/test-agency-assignment-01","source":"MAL-2026-17296"}],"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-2026-17296/"}