MAL-2026-6701

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    MAL-2026-6701

    Published: 30 Jun 2026Last Modified: 30 Jun 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in ripshakti (npm)

    Details: Source: amazon-inspector (aa7ce8c4b0c7a25d70f9043d4208694cdef5ad174aa493ee9e9097ea6693a668) The package's preinstall lifecycle hook (scripts.preinstall = "node index.js") auto-executes index.js on `npm install`. The script queries the AWS instance metadata service at 169.254.169.254 for IAM security credentials, instance identity, user-data and network metadata, reads ECS container credentials endpoints, and enumerates process.env filtering for keys matching /key|secret|token|pass|auth|cred|api|aws|database|db_|mongo|redis|s3|sqs|sns|lambda|role/i. Collected data is base64-encoded and POSTed to a hardcoded out-of-band collector at https://9x7dxkrzy9hpff6ds3y1umla218swik7.oastify.com. Any developer, CI runner, or EC2/ECS host that runs `npm install` for this package has its cloud IAM role credentials and environment secrets exfiltrated to an attacker-controlled endpoint.

    References: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ripshakti/v/80.0.0

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ripshakti

    Purl: pkg:npm/ripshakti

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    80.0.0
    MAL-2026-6701 | CVE-DB