{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including animatecss-tailwind-presets.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-18073 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-2026-18073 is a malicious package in animatecss-tailwind-presets, published on 19 Oct 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-18073 is a malicious package: animatecss-tailwind-presets (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-2026-18073/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-18073/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-18073","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-18073/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-18073","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"animatecss-tailwind-presets (1.0.0, 2.0.3) is a Tailwind CSS plugin from the fake job interview campaign behind MAL-2026-17665 and MAL-2026-17666: the same Animate.css integration template, README and description, published by elony16 on 2026-09-29. src/motion.js:5 requires the private scoped package @jasperquinn/postcss-motion-helpers, which is not readable on the public registry and resolves only with the npm token committed in the lure repository's web/.npmrc, so the code it delivers runs when tailwind.config.js loads the plugin and the dev server starts. The published tarball contains no install scripts and no network code; the payload lives in the private dependency, which was not retrieved. Twenty-six such packages under seventeen accounts were published between 2026-07-28 and 2026-10-09.\n\nPackage animatecss-tailwind-presets@1.0.0 contains no evidence of installer-facing malicious behavior. No lifecycle scripts fetching or executing remote content, no credential or environment scraping, no silent-relay of caller data, no hardcoded attacker-controlled network destinations, and no obfuscated payloads were identified across the 8 scanned files. The package appears to be a small Tailwind CSS preset shim consistent with its stated purpose.","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-presets (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-18073","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":"animatecss-tailwind-presets","purl":"pkg:npm/animatecss-tailwind-presets","source":"MAL-2026-18073"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-10-19","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-2026-18073/"}