🛡️ MAL-2026-12436 — shift-sdk-v5

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

Malicious code in shift-sdk-v5 (npm)

Source: amazon-inspector

[email protected] registers a postinstall script that runs dist/recon.js on npm install. The script collects hostname, username, SUDO_USER, home directory, working directory, internal network interface addresses, DNS domain (via dnsdomainname), CI provider indicators, the full list of environment variable names, and a filtered subset of environment variable names matching AWS, GCP, AZURE, NPM, TOKEN, SECRET, KEY, PASS, CRED, GITHUB, GITLAB, and SSH patterns. The collected data is POSTed over plain HTTP to the hardcoded bare IP 138.68.108.20 at path /cb. The package's main file self-identifies as @shiftforex/shift-sdk-v4 — trading API client (scoped build) while being published unscoped as shift-sdk-v5, impersonating the legitimate scoped SDK to attract installs. A NON-SENSITIVE telemetry comment accompanies code that explicitly enumerates sudo state, internal IPs, CI context, and credential-shaped env var names — pre-attack host and credential-surface fingerprinting against installer/CI environments.

Affected software

MAL-2026-12436 is recorded against 1 package.

  • shift-sdk-v5

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 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-05
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
shift-sdk-v5 — —

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