MAL-2026-17546

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    MAL-2026-17546

    Published: 5 Oct 2026Last Modified: 5 Oct 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in aria-live-region-helper (npm)

    Details: Source: amazon-inspector (391a9a163273e36e3945f918ea720b8e10aa462b0aa603d4012b28c557c58570) The package is advertised as an ARIA accessibility helper but ships thunderboltRegistry.js, which executes a top-level IIFE on module load. The IIFE runs shell reconnaissance commands via child_process.execSync (whoami, id, pwd, ifconfig/ip addr, cat /etc/hosts, hostname) and sends their output, together with a beacon containing Node version, process.platform, and PID, via HTTP GET requests to the hardcoded endpoint http://dxpoc.gt.tc/callback.php/ef9ea0e191006f3cc6670720c99c26f3. The package also exports factories under names matching internal Wix thunderbolt registry entry points (thunderboltRegistry, siteAssetsRegistry, editorRegistry, corvidRegistry, etc.) and includes a registry-manifest.min.json mapping those names to parastorage.com unpkg URLs, so that a build pipeline resolving any of those registry names to this package triggers the recon-exfiltration side effect on import. Neither the reconnaissance behavior nor the dxpoc.gt.tc destination is related to the package's advertised accessibility purpose.

    References: https://www.npmjs.com/package/aria-live-region-helper/v/1.0.0

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: aria-live-region-helper

    Purl: pkg:npm/aria-live-region-helper

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.0.0