@rutxploit-sec/waves-button-poc

GHSA-47cj-gh5r-6927

Malicious code in @rutxploit-sec/waves-button-poc (npm)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 2.0.0`

## Source: amazon-inspector (435937e521ca52ff4d99fd276136aff40364c4a88a3a4677cecf390c9d9bb600)
@rutxploit-sec/[email protected] auto-executes host-identifier exfiltration on both `npm install` and `require`. package.json declares a preinstall script that runs `node -e` code which reads `os.hostname()` and `os.userInfo().username` and issues a plaintext HTTP GET to the hardcoded bare-IP endpoint http://80.225.217.8/poc/dep-confusion-proof.html, passing the package name, host, and user as query parameters. The declared main entry index.js repeats the same behavior at module top level, so any consumer that requires the package also beacons the same identifiers to the same IP. The scoped name and PoC framing are consistent with a dependency-confusion proof-of-concept, but the shipped code performs unauthenticated identifier collection from every installer regardless of intent, and the destination is an attacker-chosen bare IP over cleartext HTTP.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/df8912ac853d808526d73c577abd0cdfa8d704f1/osv/malicious/npm/@rutxploit-sec/waves-button-poc/MAL-2026-17290.json))

**References:**
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/df8912ac853d808526d73c577abd0cdfa8d704f1/osv/malicious/npm/@rutxploit-sec/waves-button-poc/MAL-2026-17290.json
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/@rutxploit-sec/waves-button-poc/v/1.0.0
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/@rutxploit-sec/waves-button-poc/v/2.0.0
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/@rutxploit-sec/waves-button-poc/v/3.0.0
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-47cj-gh5r-6927

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.