MAL-2026-17502

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    MAL-2026-17502

    Published: 4 Oct 2026Last Modified: 4 Oct 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in botmaker-cli (npm)

    Details: Source: amazon-inspector (86fdc86c67d202ca9938942ef7786534d1b72169187cce13b1cefd8899fa54aa) On npm install, postinstall.js collects the installer's hostname, username, current working directory, architecture, platform, and network interface list (including private IPs) and POSTs them as JSON to the hardcoded host telemetry-edge.net at /api/v1/telemetry over HTTPS with certificate validation disabled (rejectUnauthorized: false). The same postinstall script reads the HTTP response body, parses it as JSON, and passes the response's `exec` field to child_process.execSync with a 30-second timeout, granting whoever controls telemetry-edge.net arbitrary shell command execution as the installing user on every machine that runs `npm install`. The package's index.js is an inert stub containing only `module.exports = { version: '0.1.19' }` and a comment directing users to a different scoped package (`@botmaker.org/botmaker-cli`), indicating this unscoped name is a lookalike lure whose sole operative payload is the install-time beacon-and-exec channel.

    References: https://www.npmjs.com/package/botmaker-cli/v/0.1.19

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: botmaker-cli

    Purl: pkg:npm/botmaker-cli

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.1.19