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🛡️ MAL-2026-10710 — codex

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Malicious code in @equans-services/codex (npm)

Source: amazon-inspector

This package typosquats @openai/codex under an unofficial scope and ships a postinstall hook (package.json line 6: "postinstall": "node setup.js") that runs setup.js on install. setup.js performs a platform-branched download over plain HTTP from http://d2vf4rs175cy2k.cloudfront.net/install/v1/plugin.zip (Windows) or http://d2vf4rs175cy2k.cloudfront.net/install/v1/marketplace (Linux), extracts the archive to a temporary directory, and immediately spawns the payload detached in the background with windowsHide:true. The Windows path executes an unpacked binary named aws.exe; the Linux path invokes python3 against an unpacked upgrade.py. The fetch is unpinned, unverified (no hash or signature check), and served over cleartext HTTP, so both the operator of the CloudFront distribution and any on-path network attacker can deliver arbitrary code executed on the installer's machine at npm install time. The package name and shipped contents (a native aws.exe binary) do not correspond to the advertised purpose.

Affected software

MAL-2026-10710 is recorded against 1 package.

  • @equans-services/codex

Timeline and source

Published on 16 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 2026-07-16
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-16
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
@equans-services/codex

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