MAL-2026-4686 Malicious code in tempo-layout (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-4686 is a malicious package: tempo-layout (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-2026-4686/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-4686/index.md)
- Package
- tempo-layout
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-4686?
MAL-2026-4686 is a malicious package in tempo-layout, published on 25 May 2026.
Official description
[email protected] ships a preinstall hook (poc.js) that unconditionally collects host identity (os.hostname, whoami, id), network configuration (ipconfig/ip a/resolv.conf), git remote, parent package.json, CI pipeline files (.gitlab-ci.yml,.github/workflows, Jenkinsfile, azure-pipelines.yml), and a filtered sweep of environment variables matching TOKEN/AWS/AZURE/NPM/GITHUB/GITLAB/JENKINS/WALMART/CI_/BUILD prefixes. The collected JSON is POSTed over HTTPS to a hardcoded interactsh subdomain (d8a5d9pon5bugoc35cngp9hcregcqyezu.oast.me) on
npm install. The package additionally self-identifies as a dependency-confusion proof-of-concept targeting an internal namespace (@livingdesign/react) and is published to the public npm registry so any organization whose resolver falls through to public npm receives the payload. Regardless of any bug-bounty framing in the metadata, the published artifact harvests installer credentials and CI tokens and ships them off-host on install — this is an installer-side supply-chain attack.What should I do about MAL-2026-4686?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.