MAL-2026-16390

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    MAL-2026-16390

    Published: 22 Sept 2026Last Modified: 22 Sept 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in oracle-redis (npm)

    Details: Source: amazon-inspector (c800d0651330b1c1cd5d9c5cb2b6966eecefb2d2c28949d0670f485d820db3a6) The package publishes as `oracle-redis` but ships a verbatim copy of the ioredis README, source tree, and repository URL (`git://github.com/luin/ioredis.git`), presenting itself as ioredis under a different name. The `package.json` declares two additional runtime dependencies that are not part of ioredis's real dependency set and are never imported anywhere in the shipped `built/` source: `redis-type-intel` ^1.10.5 and `pino-ulid` ^2.12.2. Because they are ordinary `dependencies` with caret ranges, `npm install oracle-redis` resolves and installs those two packages (and their transitive graph) into the installer's `node_modules`, executing whatever lifecycle scripts they declare, even though nothing in the ioredis code being wrapped ever loads them. The combination of a name-squat lure over a popular library plus unused, caret-pinned extra dependencies is a dependency-delivery shape: the harm, if any, arrives through the transitive install of the extra names rather than through this tarball's own code.

    References: https://www.npmjs.com/package/oracle-redis/v/5.11.3

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: oracle-redis

    Purl: pkg:npm/oracle-redis

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    5.11.3