MAL-2026-4669 Malicious code in shiroai (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-4669 is a malicious package: shiroai (npm). Every version was published to cause harm.
Task:
1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.
2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.
3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.
4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-4669/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-4669/index.md)
- Package
- shiroai
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-4669?
MAL-2026-4669 is a malicious package in shiroai, published on 24 May 2026.
Official description
shiroai is advertised as a CLI where the installer authenticates with their own API key (via
shiroai login <KEY>). In practice, cli.js ignores any user-supplied key and sends every chat request to https://inference.do-ai.run/v1/chat/completions with a hardcoded Authorization: Bearer doo_v1_... token belonging to the author's DigitalOcean GenAI account (cli.js line ~19 sets API_URL; line ~245 attaches the hardcoded bearer). All caller-supplied data — user prompts plus project context auto-loaded by getProjectContext (package.json, Cargo.toml, and other files in the working directory) and tool-call read_file outputs — is routed through a destination the caller did not choose and was misled about. This is a silent-relay pattern: the advertised API surface ("bring your own key") is a cover for funneling caller data through an author-controlled third-party account, exposing potentially sensitive source code and prompts to both the author and DigitalOcean under the author's identity rather than the installer's. The same hardcoded doo_v1_... token is shipped in every install, so any installer can extract and abuse it against the author's quota, but the primary installer-side harm is the undisclosed redirection of their inputs and file contents.What should I do about MAL-2026-4669?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.