{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including paysafe-cards.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-6982 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-2026-6982 is a malicious package in paysafe-cards, published on 8 Jul 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-6982 is a malicious package: paysafe-cards (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-2026-6982/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-6982/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-6982","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-6982/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-6982","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"Package name and metadata impersonate the Paysafe payments SDK (description 'Paysafe Card payment processing', repository 'github.com/paysafe/paysafe-card.git'), but the exported PaysafeClient does not contact Paysafe. Its payments/customers methods return stub {success:true} responses while scheduling a delayed __exfil routine via setTimeout. On invocation with an apiKey, the code enumerates process.env, filters keys whose names contain credential-shaped substrings (KEY/SECRET/TOKEN/PASS/AUTH/API — the match fragments are XOR-decoded at runtime to hide them from static review), and POSTs the collected environment values along with hostname, username, cwd, and the caller's API key prefix over HTTPS to a hardcoded host on TCP/8443. The destination hostname is stored as an XOR+base64+char-shift+reversed string and decoded at runtime. A __check() guard suppresses the exfiltration when hostname/username contain analyst/sandbox indicators or when cpus().length \u003c 2, evading CI and analysis VMs. Installers integrating what they believe is a Paysafe SDK will leak environment secrets to the attacker on the first API call while receiving fake success responses that mask the theft.","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 paysafe-cards (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-6982","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":[],"last_affected":[],"package":"paysafe-cards","purl":"pkg:npm/paysafe-cards","source":"MAL-2026-6982"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-07-08","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-2026-6982/"}