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🛡️ MAL-2026-10459 — connectedmerchantsserv

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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Description

Malicious code in connectedmerchantsserv (npm)

Source: amazon-inspector

The package's scripts.install lifecycle hook runs node index.js, which loads lib/core.js. That module collects the installer's OS username, hostname, and current working directory basename, then encodes those values as subdomain labels of oob.sl4x0.xyz prefixed with paypal2 and issues dns.resolve4 queries against the resulting hostname, leaking the data out-of-band to the attacker's authoritative DNS server. The Node API names (os, dns, userInfo, username, hostname, cwd) and the destination domain are hidden as char-code numeric arrays reconstructed via String.fromCharCode in lib/b02e30.js and lib/6ad264.js to evade static inspection. The package is presented as generic 'enterprise utilities' but ships no functionality matching that description.

Affected software

MAL-2026-10459 is recorded against 1 package.

  • connectedmerchantsserv

Timeline and source

Published on 13 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

www.npmjs.com (Package)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-07-13
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-13
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
connectedmerchantsserv

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