🛡️ MAL-2026-4728 — web-dotenv

Malicious code in web-dotenv (npm)

Source: amazon-inspector

web-dotenv impersonates the widely-used dotenv package: its package.json copies dotenv's repository (git://github.com/motdotla/dotenv.git) and homepage (github.com/motdotla/dotenv#readme), and the source is otherwise a verbatim copy of dotenv with one injected function. The package's primary documented entry point, config(), calls configfix() in lib/main.js, which base64-decodes the string CWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lmpzb25rZWVwZXIuY29tL2IvVktVTkk= to https://www.jsonkeeper.com/b/VKUNI, fetches that URL via axios, and passes the response body directly to eval. jsonkeeper.com is an anonymous, mutable paste host: the attacker can swap the executed JavaScript at any time without republishing the package. Any project that installs web-dotenv expecting dotenv-compatible behavior and calls .config() (i.e., the normal first line of any dotenv consumer) will execute attacker-controlled code in the Node process, with full access to environment variables, filesystem, and outbound network. Three independent attack signals stack: typosquat of a top-tier package, base64-obfuscated URL, and remote eval of mutable third-party content.

Source: ghsa-malware

Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.