@ppa-web-components/ppa-navigation

GHSA-38w9-666c-chmr

Malicious code in @ppa-web-components/ppa-navigation (npm)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 2.0.0`

## Source: amazon-inspector (c88c344e72bb7cf5ae6f5e6185a1024caf8b96bce96584d448609ab78cd894af)
The package is a shim whose only functional payload is a beacon. package.json declares a postinstall that runs `node beacon.cjs`, and `index.js` additionally invokes `require('./beacon.cjs').fire()` on load, so the beacon fires both at `npm install` and whenever any consumer `require`s the package. The beacon POSTs the installer's hostname, install path, current working directory, and Node version to the hardcoded bare-IP plain-HTTP endpoint `http://185.158.107.175:8787/_ah/dc`. The destination is not a registry, not a documented first-party service, and the plain-IP + non-standard port shape is inconsistent with any legitimate vendor telemetry. The package otherwise exports a Proxy that returns no-op functions for every property and self-describes as a 'Compatibility shim', so the beacon is the entire payload. The scoped name `@ppa-web-components/ppa-navigation` has the shape of a dependency-confusion or typosquat probe against an internal `@ppa-web-components` namespace.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/b711d7c76f98b5044512e8c851547e8a05b2f959/osv/malicious/npm/@ppa-web-components/ppa-navigation/MAL-2026-18286.json))

**References:**
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/b711d7c76f98b5044512e8c851547e8a05b2f959/osv/malicious/npm/@ppa-web-components/ppa-navigation/MAL-2026-18286.json
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ppa-web-components/ppa-navigation/v/1.0.0
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ppa-web-components/ppa-navigation/v/1.0.1
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ppa-web-components/ppa-navigation/v/2.0.0
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ppa-web-components/ppa-navigation/v/2.0.1
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ppa-web-components/ppa-navigation/v/3.0.0
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ppa-web-components/ppa-navigation/v/99.0.1
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/38576efe4884e97a0598f23da7c6da0343b22df4/osv/malicious/npm/@ppa-web-components/ppa-navigation/MAL-2026-18286.json

Compromised versions (1)

= 2.0.0

Any computer that installed or ran a compromised version should be considered fully compromised. Rotate every secret on that machine from a clean environment.