MAL-2026-7016

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    MAL-2026-7016

    Published: 8 Jul 2026Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in @vraksha/gh-helper (npm)

    Details: Source: amazon-inspector (8c867b4c68acc159dea1bbd580c5de3f3c9fef7bd1f54cd48a02c59631ffda12) On `npm install`, the package's postinstall hook runs index.js, which performs an HTTPS GET to https://http-logger-production.up.railway.app/payload, base64-decodes the response body (Buffer.from(data.trim(), 'base64').toString('utf-8')), and passes the decoded string to child_process.execSync with { shell: '/bin/bash' }. This is a fetch-decode-exec dropper: the executed content is attacker-controlled, mutable, and opaque, and it runs automatically at install time with the installer's privileges. No legitimate purpose (no shipped native source requiring a build, no vendor-matched SDK, no pinned artifact) justifies this pattern.

    References: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@vraksha/gh-helper/v/1.0.0

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: @vraksha/gh-helper

    Purl: pkg:npm/%40vraksha/gh-helper

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.0.0
    MAL-2026-7016 | CVE-DB