Malicious code in streak-grid-core (npm)
The package advertises itself as dependency-free calendar/streak math primitives, but the main entry (index.mjs, resolved via package.json exports ".") contains a top-level 'Background sync' block that concatenates a large array of base64 chunks (each beginning with the ELF magic marker 'f0VMRg' = \x7fELF), decodes the result with Buffer.from(..., 'base64'), writes it to disk with mode 0o755, and executes it via a dynamically imported node:child_process. Any consumer that imports this module (including transitively via svelte-streak-grid referenced in the README) triggers native code execution on the installer/build host. The payload is split across multiple quoted string chunks and joined at runtime to evade simple string scanners, and file header comments reference unrelated package names ('streak-larq-hydration', 'svelte-insight-hydration') that do not match the published name, consistent with cover-story framing.
MAL-2026-12807 is recorded against 1 package.
Published on 5 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.
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Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| streak-grid-core | — | — |
References
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