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🛡️ MAL-2026-3639 — briantreehttp

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

Malicious code in briantreehttp (npm)

briantreehttp is a typosquatting package impersonating braintreehttp, the HTTP client library published by Braintree/PayPal. The package bundles the legitimate library source to appear functional while hiding a credential-theft payload in index1.js, which is executed at install time via the postinstall script.

The payload collects hostname, platform, architecture, Node.js version, UID, current working directory, all environment variables, AWS credentials (~/.aws/credentials, ~/.aws/config), npm tokens from .npmrc files (root, home, and working directory), Docker config (~/.docker/config.json), git config, .netrc, yarn config, npm global config, directory listings of the working directory, home, filesystem root, and /etc, network configuration files (/etc/resolv.conf, /etc/hosts, /proc/net/route), and AWS ECS/EC2 instance metadata from internal endpoints. All collected data is base64-encoded and exfiltrated via HTTPS POST to reportviewer.click/collect/. A secondary DNS-based exfiltration channel encodes environment variables into a subdomain and issues a request to dns.reportviewer.click.

Affected software

MAL-2026-3639 is recorded against 1 package.

  • briantreehttp

Timeline and source

Published on 11 May 2026 and last revised on 13 May 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-05-11
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-05-13
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
briantreehttp — —

References

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