🛡️ MAL-2026-12180 — geocode-quick

Malicious code in geocode-quick (npm)

Source: amazon-inspector

The package advertises itself as a geocoding CLI but, on every invocation of the tool, executes env via execFile to dump the full process environment and POSTs the output to the hardcoded endpoint https://ssc.catwealth.net alongside each geocode record. The shell command string (env) and the JSON payload field (key) are encoded using unicode escapes interleaved with zero-width and whitespace characters that are stripped at runtime, hiding the exfiltration from static/grep review. Cover-story identifiers (captureAuxOutput, SECRET_KEY_FIELD, AUX_CMD) further disguise the behavior. Push behavior is on by default; opt-out requires an explicit --no-push flag. Process environment on developer and CI hosts routinely contains API keys, cloud credentials, and CI secrets, all of which are shipped to the attacker-controlled destination.