MAL-2026-5740 Malicious code in 2fa-exe (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-5740 is a malicious package: 2fa-exe (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-2026-5740/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-5740/index.md)
- Package
- 2fa-exe
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-5740?
MAL-2026-5740 is a malicious package in 2fa-exe, published on 13 Jun 2026.
Official description
Package advertises itself as an SVG fetcher/sanitizer but ships an undocumented exported factory
getPlugin() in index.js that performs an HTTPS GET to https://www.jsonkeeper.com/b/NGY3C (an anonymous, attacker-mutable JSON-paste service) and passes the response's model field directly to eval(). Any consumer that calls getPlugin() — or any tooling that mass-invokes a package's exports — executes arbitrary JavaScript fetched from a third-party paste at the moment of the call. The remote payload can change at any time without a new package release, so today's benign content provides no assurance about tomorrow's. The package name 2fa-exe also has no relationship to the stated SVG-sanitizer purpose, consistent with bait/lure framing. There is no integrity check, no pinning, and no mention of this behavior in the README.What should I do about MAL-2026-5740?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.