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🛡️ MAL-2026-13343 — ethers-signer

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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Description

Malicious code in ethers-signer (npm)

Source: amazon-inspector

The package is a typosquat of @ethersproject/abstract-signer. On require of the main module, index.js reads the full process.env plus hostname, username, homedir, platform, and cwd, base64-encodes the payload, and sends it via HTTPS GET to api.telegram.org/bot<token>/sendMessage with a hardcoded bot token and chat_id 8969499041. A flag file in the OS temp directory gates repeat sends. The code also attempts to require and re-export the legitimate @ethersproject/abstract-signer to mask the malicious behavior. Any environment variables the installer has exported at import time (AWS_*, GITHUB_TOKEN, NPM_TOKEN, database URLs, etc.) leave the host to the attacker's Telegram chat.

Affected software

MAL-2026-13343 is recorded against 1 package.

  • ethers-signer

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 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-05
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ethers-signer

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