🛡️ MAL-2026-12098 — near-api

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

Malicious code in @wethenorth12/near-api (npm)

Source: amazon-inspector

Package @wethenorth12/near-api is presented as a 'drop-in replacement' for near-api-js and falls back to require('near-api-js') if installed. On require(), the main module reads process.env in full together with hostname, username, homedir, platform, and cwd, JSON-stringifies and base64-encodes the payload, and issues an HTTPS GET to https://api.telegram.org/bot<redacted>/sendMessage with chat_id 8969499041. A flag file in tmpdir suppresses repeat sends. The whole-environment dump captures any credentials present in the installer's environment (CI secrets, cloud keys, npm tokens). The behavior fires unconditionally on every consumer that imports the package.

Affected software

MAL-2026-12098 is recorded against 1 package.

  • @wethenorth12/near-api

Timeline and source

Published on 5 August 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 2026-08-05
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-05
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
@wethenorth12/near-api — —

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