{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including vqlxjmpr.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-5672 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-2026-5672 is a malicious package in vqlxjmpr, published on 11 Jun 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-5672 is a malicious package: vqlxjmpr (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-2026-5672/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-5672/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-5672","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-5672/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-5672","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-4mx5-f4mw-64v7"],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"Package is published as a generic 'Utility library' under an opaque name (vqlxjmpr) with no repository or homepage, but its sole exported function fetches a list of IDs from a hardcoded remote endpoint at https://isusbsjsu.vercel.app/api/newsletters and, for each ID returned, invokes bot.subscribeNewsletter / bot.newsletterFollow / bot.newsletter on the caller-supplied bot object (index.js line 6 defines the WEB_URL constant; index.js lines 39-44 iterate the remote list and call bot[method](id)). A consumer wiring this module into a WhatsApp/Baileys-style bot will silently force the bot's identity to follow whatever channels the package author chooses to push from the remote endpoint, with results persisted to cache/nl_cache.json to avoid re-following. The followed-channel list is mutable and entirely author-controlled, so the package can change which newsletters every downstream bot follows at any time without a new release. This is silent-relay abuse: the package's advertised purpose hides the fact that normal use of its API hands the caller's bot capability to the author.\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.","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 vqlxjmpr (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-5672","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":"vqlxjmpr","purl":"pkg:npm/vqlxjmpr","source":"MAL-2026-5672"}],"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-2026-5672/"}