{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including airkey-mfa-react.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-6991 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-2026-6991 is a malicious package in airkey-mfa-react, published on 8 Jul 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-6991 is a malicious package: airkey-mfa-react (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-2026-6991/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-6991/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-6991","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-6991/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-6991","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-85x8-7x9f-f978"],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"Package auto-executes a preinstall script (`node test.js`) on `npm install` that collects username, hostname, platform, Node version, and CI flag and POSTs them to `https://eeazmrabqcquvqjfubjp6jkk2qq9p3acn.oast.fun/dex`. `index.js` additionally runs `whoami` and `id` via child_process, gathers hostname/uid/gid/homedir/cwd/shell, and POSTs the results to `https://rsnchacyin4dnjv0oc8prrwn1e77vzjo.oastify.com/detox56`. The exfil payload carries a `package: \"company-internal-canary-2026\", version: \"99.0.0\"` label, indicating a dependency-confusion probe against an internal package namespace. Both destinations are out-of-band interaction service domains (interact.sh / Burp Collaborator) used to capture installer identifiers.\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.\n\nThe OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'airkey-mfa-react' @ 36.1.1 (npm) as malicious.\n\nIt is considered malicious because:\n\n- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.","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 airkey-mfa-react (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-6991","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":"airkey-mfa-react","purl":"pkg:npm/airkey-mfa-react","source":"MAL-2026-6991"}],"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-2026-6991/"}