{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including edu-npm-dependency-chain-demo.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-5623 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-2026-5623 is a malicious package in edu-npm-dependency-chain-demo, published on 11 Jun 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-5623 is a malicious package: edu-npm-dependency-chain-demo (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-2026-5623/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-5623/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-5623","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-5623/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-5623","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-cqgx-r84j-px55"],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"No suspicious code, lifecycle scripts, network destinations, credential reads, or obfuscation were observed in this package. The package name suggests an educational demonstration of dependency chains, and the contents do not exhibit any of the structural fingerprints associated with supply-chain attacks (no install-time fetch-and-execute, no environment scraping, no hardcoded exfil endpoint, no credential-store enumeration).\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 'edu-npm-dependency-chain-demo' @ 1.0.4 (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 edu-npm-dependency-chain-demo (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-5623","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":"edu-npm-dependency-chain-demo","purl":"pkg:npm/edu-npm-dependency-chain-demo","source":"MAL-2026-5623"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-06-11","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-2026-5623/"}