{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including @coopeuch/button.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-17759 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-2026-17759 is a malicious package in @coopeuch/button, published on 11 Oct 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-17759 is a malicious package: @coopeuch/button (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-2026-17759/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-17759/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-17759","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-17759/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-17759","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-55qj-2wwm-x5v6"],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"The package's postinstall lifecycle script (postinstall.js) runs automatically on `npm install` and harvests installer host identifiers — hostname, username, uid/gid, home directory, non-internal network interfaces with MAC addresses and CIDRs, configured DNS servers, reverse-DNS internal FQDN, CPU/memory, the consumer package name/version/path, CI markers, npm_config_* values, and container runtime indicators — then POSTs the JSON report over HTTPS to the hardcoded host collector.oob.s4yhii.com at /_npm-poc/beacon and issues a DNS lookup for a label-prefixed subdomain of oob.s4yhii.com as an out-of-band beacon. The destination is not the installer's own infrastructure and is not caller-configurable. The `@coopeuch` scope combined with the 1.999.999 version has the shape of dependency-confusion targeting of a specific organization's internal namespace, in which `npm install` resolves this public package in place of an intended internal one and emits the fingerprint to the author's collector.\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 @coopeuch/button (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-17759","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":"@coopeuch/button","purl":"pkg:npm/%40coopeuch/button","source":"MAL-2026-17759"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-10-11","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-2026-17759/"}