MAL-2026-10680

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    MAL-2026-10680

    Published: 15 Jul 2026Last Modified: 15 Jul 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in syncgrove (npm)

    Details: Source: amazon-inspector (6c96b3528ab792944d243b00ae61facc33740850b5cb2ed19671fd6732e43494) The package's postinstall lifecycle script contacts a hardcoded plain-HTTP endpoint at http://player.sweeprovider.org, retrieves a key via /getKey.php and an AES-CBC encrypted payload via /generateRandomKey.php, decrypts the payload using CryptoJS with a hardcoded key suffix, and passes the resulting string to child_process.exec. This causes attacker-supplied, mutable, obfuscated shell content to run automatically on the installer's machine during `npm install`. The package's README presents it as a trivial 'greet' module, which does not match the actual install-time behavior. The remote host is unauthenticated and served over plain HTTP, so the fetched command body is both attacker-mutable and MITM-modifiable.

    References: https://www.npmjs.com/package/syncgrove/v/1.4.0

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: syncgrove

    Purl: pkg:npm/syncgrove

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.4.0
    MAL-2026-10680 | CVE-DB