🛡️ MAL-2026-12508 — no-brainer-sdk

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

Malicious code in @shiftmarkets/no-brainer-sdk (npm)

Source: amazon-inspector

The package runs node dist/recon.js as a postinstall lifecycle script on every npm install. The script collects host reconnaissance from the installer machine — hostname, username, SUDO_USER, homedir, cwd, network interface addresses (including internal/private IPs), CI indicators, npm lifecycle metadata, and the full list of environment variable names — and additionally filters those names against a credential-focused regex (AWS, GCP, GOOGLE, AZURE, NPM, NODE_AUTH, DOCKER, KUBE, VAULT, TOKEN, SECRET, KEY, PASS, CRED, GITHUB, GITLAB, SSH) to produce a secretish_names list. The JSON payload is POSTed over plain HTTP to the hardcoded bare-IPv4 endpoint http://138.68.108.20:80/cb, which is not a Shift Markets domain. The code labels itself as 'NON-SENSITIVE telemetry' but the destination is an unrelated bare IP and the installer never opted in. Enumerating which cloud/CI secret names exist on the host maps the target's credential inventory for follow-up attacks.

Affected software

MAL-2026-12508 is recorded against 1 package.

  • @shiftmarkets/no-brainer-sdk

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
@shiftmarkets/no-brainer-sdk — —

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