🛡️ MAL-2026-13438 — cewe-npm-cops

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

Malicious code in cewe-npm-cops (npm)

Source: amazon-inspector

cewe-npm-cops@99.9.9 is a dependency-confusion probe. package.json declares scripts.preinstall = 'node preinstall.js'; preinstall.js reads os.hostname() and issues a dns.lookup against <hostname>.zfir3qor582xqvyqm0tdc7xpqgw7ky8n.oastify.com, an author-controlled Burp Collaborator (Interactsh) out-of-band host. Every npm install of this package unconditionally leaks the installer's machine hostname via DNS to a third-party OOB service. The package is otherwise hollow: version is set to 99.9.9 (max-version squat designed to override an internal package of the same name during resolution), main is an empty index.js, and author is the placeholder 'Your_HackerOne_Username'. The self-described 'harmless PoC' framing does not change the behavior: installer host identity is exfiltrated to an attacker-controlled endpoint at install time.

Affected software

MAL-2026-13438 is recorded against 1 package.

  • cewe-npm-cops

Timeline and source

Published on 6 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 2026-08-06
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-06
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cewe-npm-cops

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