{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including ec-checker.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-6996 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-2026-6996 is a malicious package in ec-checker, published on 8 Jul 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-6996 is a malicious package: ec-checker (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-2026-6996/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-6996/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-6996","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-6996/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-6996","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.json declares a preinstall script that runs `npm install @sentry/node \u0026\u0026 node examples/verify.js`. examples/verify.js initializes the package's Sentry client against a hardcoded author-owned DSN (`https://bbdb73451ed2cd7e25e5529f78013624@o4510485815754752.ingest.us.sentry.io/4511621197856768`) with sendDefaultPii enabled, calls setUserFromPublicIp() to resolve the installer's public IP, then deliberately throws a TypeError and flushes the Sentry event. As a result, simply running `npm install ec-checker` transmits the installer's public IP, hostname, OS, Node runtime info, and a stack trace to the author's Sentry project without the installer's consent. Separately, src/index.js hardcodes the same DSN as DEFAULT_DSN and falls back to it whenever a caller does not pass a `dsn` option or set `SENTRY_DSN` — and the README's quick-start invokes init() with no DSN — so consumers integrating the library per the documented usage silently upload their application's runtime exceptions (stack traces, file paths, user IPs, hostnames) to the author's Sentry tenant rather than their own. The install-time beacon gives the publisher an inventory of every machine that installs the package, and the library default turns the package into a silent relay of downstream application telemetry.","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 ec-checker (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-6996","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":"ec-checker","purl":"pkg:npm/ec-checker","source":"MAL-2026-6996"}],"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-2026-6996/"}