{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including firefly-utilities-helper.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-5517 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-2026-5517 is a malicious package in firefly-utilities-helper, published on 10 Jun 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-5517 is a malicious package: firefly-utilities-helper (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-2026-5517/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-5517/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-5517","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-5517/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-5517","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-rr4c-xp44-vvf4"],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"firefly-utilities-helper@99.9.1 ships an empty stub (index.js: `module.exports = {};`) with no description, author, or repository, but declares a single dependency `ltidisafe` as a direct tarball URL: `https://ltidi.storage.googleapis.com/depenconf/ltidisafe-3.0.6.tgz`. The bucket is on Google Cloud Storage, unrelated to any documented publisher, and the bucket/path naming (`ltidi`/`depenconf`) is consistent with a dependency-confusion staging area. URL-tarball dependencies bypass the npm registry's visibility, signature, and tooling — `npm install` will fetch the.tgz directly and execute any preinstall/install/postinstall lifecycle scripts it ships, with no hash pin, no signature, and no registry review. The wrapper contributes no functionality; its only effect on install is to smuggle the off-registry tarball into the installer's dependency tree. The high version number (99.9.1) and absent metadata are also consistent with a dependency-confusion lure intended to outrank an internal package of the same name.\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.\n\nThe OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'firefly-utilities-helper' @ 99.9.1 (npm) as malicious.\n\nIt is considered malicious because:\n\n- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.","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 firefly-utilities-helper (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-5517","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":"firefly-utilities-helper","purl":"pkg:npm/firefly-utilities-helper","source":"MAL-2026-5517"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-06-10","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-2026-5517/"}