{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including xapi-lib.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-17896 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-2026-17896 is a malicious package in xapi-lib, published on 15 Oct 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-17896 is a malicious package: xapi-lib (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-2026-17896/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-17896/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-17896","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-17896/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-17896","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"xapi-lib@88.2.3, 88.2.5, 90.2.1, and 90.3.1 describes itself as a package for getting IP location and metadata. Its preinstall hook runs `node index.js` on npm install and requests `https://realwbx.com/ip.php?ip=8.8.8.8` with the hardcoded Authorization value `fa79878bc2cfb48bd5127ae26fb661b1`, which is the same in all four versions and differs from the value in each of the account's other packages. The npm account conx3993 published xapi-lib on 2026-10-15, one of 9 packages from that account between 2026-09-30 and 2026-10-15 whose preinstall hook calls realwbx.com.\n\nxapi-lib@88.2.3 declares `preinstall: node index.js` in package.json, and index.js performs an unconditional top-level HTTPS GET to realwbx.com/ip.php (passing `8.8.8.8` and a hardcoded Authorization header) on load. The call fires automatically during `npm install`, sending the installer's source IP to a hardcoded non-publisher endpoint unrelated to any advertised functionality. The package itself is a one-file stub with no library content, so dependency resolution plus the preinstall beacon is the entire effect of installing it. The destination realwbx.com is not a publisher-aligned domain, the request is not caller-configurable, and no documentation discloses the outbound call.","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 xapi-lib (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-17896","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":"xapi-lib","purl":"pkg:npm/xapi-lib","source":"MAL-2026-17896"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-10-15","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-2026-17896/"}