{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including animatecss-tailwind-bridge.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-17666 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-2026-17666 is a malicious package in animatecss-tailwind-bridge, published on 7 Oct 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-17666 is a malicious package: animatecss-tailwind-bridge (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-2026-17666/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-17666/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-17666","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-17666/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-17666","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-3h7p-p7hr-fqf7"],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"animatecss-tailwind-bridge 2.0.6 was published to npm on 2026-09-13 by the account bennetwild. The package is part of a fake job interview campaign that targets developers, using the same method as the \"Contagious Interview\" campaign. A fake company sends a take-home coding assessment repository. The repository commits a web/.npmrc containing a plaintext npm auth token, and its tailwind.config.js loads this package as a Tailwind CSS plugin. The package presents itself as an Animate.css integration (\"A configurable, namespaced Animate.css integration for Tailwind CSS\", main plugin.js) but declares a runtime dependency on a private scoped npm package (@jasperquinn/postcss-motion-helpers) that is not publicly readable, so npm audit and public scanners cannot see it; it only resolves with the token committed in the lure repository. The package has no install scripts, so --ignore-scripts does not help: the code runs when Tailwind loads the config, i.e. on `npm run dev` / `next dev`. Public analysis of the earlier package in this chain (animatecss-tailwind-adapter, by Yunus Aydın) reports that the private package contacts an operator-controlled server and runs the code it receives with full Node.js privileges. A public write-up by a targeted developer describes this package as the dependency in a lure repository for a Solana copy-trading dashboard from a fake company \"BlockRoute Labs\" (blockroutelabs.com), recruited through Djinni.co. It depends on the same private package as tailwind-animatecss-uniform, which was found in a separate lure. The package's repository field points to a GitHub repository that is not publicly accessible. Related packages from the same template (same description, main file, dependency list and 2.0.x versioning, each published by a different single-use npm account): animatecss-tailwind-adapter 2.0.6 (2026-07-28, depends on private @aaron205whitmore/postcss-animate-utils), animatecss-tailwind-bridge 2.0.6 (2026-09-13, depends on private @jasperquinn/postcss-motion-helpers) and tailwind-animatecss-uniform 2.0.7 (2026-09-28, depends on private @jasperquinn/postcss-motion-helpers).\n\nAny computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing 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 animatecss-tailwind-bridge (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-17666","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":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"animatecss-tailwind-bridge","purl":"pkg:npm/animatecss-tailwind-bridge","source":"MAL-2026-17666"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-10-07","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-2026-17666/"}