MAL-2025-49262

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    MAL-2025-49262

    Published: 30 Oct 2025Last Modified: 2 Dec 2025Aliases: 
    GHSA-gjj9-j8wf-5x29SNYK-JS-NODEBASE58-13782823

    Summary: Malicious code in node-base58 (npm)

    Details: Source: amazon-inspector (e650ba35532afdff95942d9f08f3eae361d1b7481551253361b299bdb8354599) The package node-base58 was found to contain malicious code. Source: ghsa-malware (1d966f73ad19ab1fb24763cb1937d69690004b818fc7ca4b301b13c122da974b) 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.

    References: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gjj9-j8wf-5x29, https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-NODEBASE58-13782823, https://npmjs.com/package/node-base58

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: node-base58

    Purl: pkg:npm/node-base58

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.0.1