VYPR

CWE-506

Embedded Malicious Code

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Description

The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.

Malicious flaws have acquired colorful names, including Trojan horse, trapdoor, timebomb, and logic-bomb. A developer might insert malicious code with the intent to subvert the security of a product or its host system at some time in the future. It generally refers to a program that performs a useful service but exploits rights of the program's user in a way the user does not intend.

Hierarchy (View 1000)

Related attack patterns (CAPEC)

CAPEC-442 · CAPEC-448 · CAPEC-636

CVEs mapped to this weakness (97)

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  • CVE-2026-48027CriKEVMay 27, 2026
    risk 0.82cvss 9.8epss 0.02

    Nx Console is the user interface for Nx & Lerna. On 19 May 2026, a malicious version of Nx Console, 18.95.0, was published at 12:30 PM UTC and removed soon after at 12:48 PM UTC, leaving it available for ~18 minutes in Visual Studio Marketplace. For OpenVSX, the problem was…

  • CVE-2026-45321CriKEVMay 12, 2026
    risk 0.81cvss 9.6epss 0.02

    On 2026-05-11, between approximately 19:20 and 19:26 UTC, 84 malicious versions across 42 @tanstack/* packages were published to the npm registry. The publishes were authenticated via the legitimate GitHub Actions OIDC trusted-publisher binding for TanStack/router, but the…

  • CVE-2026-8398CriKEVMay 15, 2026
    risk 0.76cvss 9.8epss 0.01

    A supply chain attack compromised the official installation packages of DAEMON Tools Lite (Windows versions 12.5.0.2421 through 12.5.0.2434), distributed from the legitimate website daemon-tools.cc between approximately April 8, 2026, and May 5, 2026. Attackers gained…

  • CVE-2025-59374CriKEVDec 17, 2025
    risk 0.76cvss 9.8epss 0.01

    "UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED" Certain versions of the ASUS Live Update client were distributed with unauthorized modifications introduced through a supply chain compromise. The modified builds could cause devices meeting specific targeting conditions to perform unintended…

  • CVE-2024-4978HigKEVMay 23, 2024
    risk 0.69cvss 8.4epss 0.27

    Justice AV Solutions Viewer Setup 8.3.7.250-1 contains a malicious binary when executed and is signed with an unexpected authenticode signature. A remote, privileged threat actor may exploit this vulnerability to execute of unauthorized PowerShell commands.

  • CVE-2026-33634HigKEVMar 23, 2026
    risk 0.67cvss 8.8epss 0.59

    Trivy is a security scanner. On March 19, 2026, a threat actor used compromised credentials to publish a malicious Trivy v0.69.4 release, force-push 76 of 77 version tags in `aquasecurity/trivy-action` to credential-stealing malware, and replace all 7 tags in…

  • CVE-2026-46412CriJul 20, 2026
    risk 0.65cvss 10.0epss 0.00

    @beproduct/nestjs-auth is a NestJS authentication module for BeProduct IDS (Identity Server) with OpenID Connect support. Between 2026-05-11 20:19 UTC and 22:56 UTC, an attacker used a compromised npm publish token to publish 18 malicious versions of `@beproduct/nestjs-auth`…

  • CVE-2026-28353CriMar 5, 2026
    risk 0.65cvss epss 0.00

    Trivy Vulnerability Scanner is a VS Code extension that helps find vulnerabilities. In Trivy VSCode Extension version 1.8.12, which was distributed via OpenVSX marketplace was compromised and contained malicious code designed to leverage local AI coding agent to collect and…

  • CVE-2024-3094CriMar 29, 2024
    risk 0.65cvss 10.0epss 0.86

    Malicious code was discovered in the upstream tarballs of xz, starting with version 5.6.0. Through a series of complex obfuscations, the liblzma build process extracts a prebuilt object file from a disguised test file existing in the source code, which is then used to modify…

  • CVE-2026-44484CriMay 14, 2026
    risk 0.64cvss 9.8epss 0.00

    PyTorch Lightning is a deep learning framework to pretrain and finetune AI models. Versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.2 have introduced functionality consistent with a credential harvesting mechanism.

  • CVE-2026-6443CriApr 17, 2026
    risk 0.64cvss 9.8epss 0.01

    All plugins by Essentialplugin for WordPress are vulnerable to an injected backdoor in various versions. This is due to the plugin being sold to a malicious threat actor that embedded a backdoor in all of the plugin's they acquired. This makes it possible for the threat actor to…

  • CVE-2026-34424CriApr 9, 2026
    risk 0.64cvss 9.8epss 0.01

    Smart Slider 3 Pro version 3.5.1.35 for WordPress and Joomla contains a multi-stage remote access toolkit injected through a compromised update system that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code and commands. Attackers can trigger pre-authentication remote…

  • CVE-2026-31976CriMar 11, 2026
    risk 0.64cvss 9.8epss 0.01

    xygeni-action is the GitHub Action for Xygeni Scanner. On March 3, 2026, an attacker with access to compromised credentials created a series of pull requests (#46, #47, #48) injecting obfuscated shell code into action.yml. The PRs were blocked by branch protection rules and…

  • CVE-2025-30066HigKEVMar 15, 2025
    risk 0.64cvss 8.6epss 0.70

    tj-actions changed-files before 46 allows remote attackers to discover secrets by reading actions logs. (The tags v1 through v45.0.7 were affected on 2025-03-14 and 2025-03-15 because they were modified by a threat actor to point at commit 0e58ed8, which contained malicious…

  • CVE-2017-16128CriJun 7, 2018
    risk 0.64cvss 9.8epss 0.01

    The module npm-script-demo opened a connection to a command and control server. It has been removed from the npm registry.

  • CVE-2026-45758CriJun 5, 2026
    risk 0.62cvss 9.6epss 0.00

    Guardrails AI is a Python framework that helps build AI applications. On May 11, 2026 at approximately 6:00 PM Pacific, an attacker published a malicious version of `guardrails-ai` (0.10.1) to PyPI. Aany user who installed `guardrails-ai==0.10.1` from PyPI on May 11, 2026 may be…

  • CVE-2025-30154HigKEVMar 19, 2025
    risk 0.61cvss 8.6epss 0.02

    reviewdog/action-setup is a GitHub action that installs reviewdog. reviewdog/action-setup@v1 was compromised March 11, 2025, between 18:42 and 20:31 UTC, with malicious code added that dumps exposed secrets to Github Actions Workflow Logs. Other reviewdog actions that use…

  • CVE-2020-15165CriAug 28, 2020
    risk 0.61cvss 9.3epss 0.01

    Version 1.1.6-free of Chameleon Mini Live Debugger on Google Play Store may have had it's sources or permissions tampered by a malicious actor. The official maintainer of the package is recommending all users upgrade to v1.1.8 as soon as possible. For more information, review…

  • CVE-2026-48161CriAug 10, 2026
    risk 0.60cvss epss 0.00

    react18-use is a React 19 use hook shim. Between 2026-05-19 01:07:01 and 2026-05-19 15:20:43, the default branch contained malicious commits 7b79148d1495a2505f9277da295a98cf176f4496 through 7b79148d1495a2505f9277da295a98cf176f4496 that executed remote attacker-controlled code on…

  • CVE-2026-48160CriAug 10, 2026
    risk 0.60cvss epss 0.00

    react-tracked provides state usage tracking with Proxies. Between 2026-05-18 19:26:36 and 2026-05-19 15:22:45, the default branch contained malicious commits 6978272a7d6ca02225cb747ea69f427512e33699 through 949f1a3d6bb1ff7d1a0dec892afd773e742627e8 that executed remote…