MAL-2026-11004

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    MAL-2026-11004

    Published: 22 Jul 2026Last Modified: 5 Aug 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in n8n-nodes-pwn (npm)

    Details: Source: amazon-inspector (ae8222d3f90f4cff83a0840ee03f4b127946274f0215a73eadd6008404a2276e) The package's Pwn.node.js executes malicious code at module load time when n8n loads this community node. It opens a TCP socket to 10.0.0.145:4444 and pipes the socket to a spawned /bin/sh -i, giving a remote party interactive shell control of the installer's host. In parallel, top-level code runs host reconnaissance commands (network interfaces, routes, ARP, /proc/net/tcp, filesystem searches for flag/*.txt), reads /home/node/.n8n/database.sqlite (n8n's encrypted workflow credentials store) filtered for 'flag|password|secret', and reads /home/node/.n8n/config, POSTing the aggregated output to http://10.0.0.145:8000/rce-out3. The hardcoded 10.0.0.145 destination is a private RFC1918 address consistent with a lab/PoC target, but the payload is fully weaponized and would execute against any installer that loads the node.

    References: https://www.npmjs.com/package/n8n-nodes-pwn/v/1.0.6, https://www.npmjs.com/package/n8n-nodes-pwn/v/1.0.5, https://www.npmjs.com/package/n8n-nodes-pwn/v/1.0.8, https://www.npmjs.com/package/n8n-nodes-pwn/v/1.0.7, https://www.npmjs.com/package/n8n-nodes-pwn/v/1.0.0, https://www.npmjs.com/package/n8n-nodes-pwn/v/1.0.2, https://www.npmjs.com/package/n8n-nodes-pwn/v/1.0.1, https://www.npmjs.com/package/n8n-nodes-pwn/v/1.0.4

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: n8n-nodes-pwn

    Purl: pkg:npm/n8n-nodes-pwn

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.0.6
    1.0.5
    1.0.8
    1.0.7
    1.0.0
    1.0.2
    1.0.1
    1.0.4