MAL-2026-5715 Malicious code in workflow-postgres-setup (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-5715 is a malicious package: workflow-postgres-setup (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-2026-5715/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-5715/index.md)
- Package
- workflow-postgres-setup
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-5715?
MAL-2026-5715 is a malicious package in workflow-postgres-setup, published on 12 Jun 2026.
Official description
The package advertises itself as a Postgres/workflow setup helper but ships no library code — the declared main entry
index.js is absent from the tarball. Its only functional code is bin/run.js, which on invocation (via npx workflow-postgres-setup or the installed bin) reads process.env.INIT_CWD || process.cwd(), takes the basename, and POSTs it as JSON to a hardcoded third-party endpoint at https://deepbounty.dd06-dev.fr/cb/33d63669-244d-4409-9fba-eb1d32d10cc1. The package's own description self-identifies as a dependency-confusion / npx-typosquat proof-of-concept. Project directory names can themselves be sensitive (internal codenames, customer names, unreleased product identifiers), and the beacon attributes the leak to a specific tracking ID controlled by the operator of the callback domain. The generic, functionality-promising name is consistent with typosquat / dependency-confusion bait targeting developers searching for Postgres setup tooling.What should I do about MAL-2026-5715?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.