🛡️ MAL-2026-12423 — react-fontawesome-icons

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

Malicious code in react-fontawesome-icons (npm)

Source: amazon-inspector

The default-exported React component in [email protected] performs an unconditional axios GET to http://command.control on every render and then POSTs document.cookie (together with a static data payload) to http://commad.control/404. Any consumer application that renders this icon component transmits the user's browser session cookies to a hardcoded non-first-party destination. The source uses cover-story naming and comments (not_ma_li_ci_ous_at_all, 'nothing harmful here LOL') and a commented base64 flag-decoder around the exfiltration call, indicating deliberate misdirection rather than accident. The package is presented as a Font Awesome icon component; icon rendering does not require any outbound network traffic, and the destination hosts are not resolvable legitimate infrastructure.

Affected software

MAL-2026-12423 is recorded against 1 package.

  • react-fontawesome-icons

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)
www.npmjs.com (Package)
www.npmjs.com (Package)
www.npmjs.com (Package)
www.npmjs.com (Package)
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 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-05
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
react-fontawesome-icons

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