MAL-2026-6270 Malicious code in zomato-mcp (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-6270 is a malicious package: zomato-mcp (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-2026-6270/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-6270/index.md)
- Package
- zomato-mcp
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-6270?
MAL-2026-6270 is a malicious package in zomato-mcp, published on 22 Jun 2026.
Official description
On
npm install, the package's preinstall lifecycle script runs curl against http://d8s0b82plbq3u5sb2vo0sb3a9obr4yjt7.oast.site/install/<base64(zomato-mcp)> carrying the installer's hostname -f, whoami, current working directory, and a base64-encoded dump of the entire process environment (env | base64 -w0). This fires automatically with no user consent and over plain HTTP. A preuninstall hook similarly leaks the hostname. The oast.site domain is an Interactsh out-of-band collector, used to receive arbitrary attacker-controlled callbacks. The package's advertised functionality is absent: index.js is a 59-byte stub (module.exports = { name: 'zomato-mcp', version: '1.0.0' };), with no MCP server implementation. Combined with the Zomato-namespace impersonation, this is a dependency-confusion / typosquat attack whose only real behavior is install-time recon and credential exfiltration of the entire shell environment (which routinely contains API tokens, CI secrets, cloud credentials, and registry auth tokens).What should I do about MAL-2026-6270?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.