unfortunate_crawdad_emerald-79

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 3.3.1`

Part of a self-republishing campaign: generated names of the form <adjective>_<animal>_<colour>-<number>, each package shipping the same autopublish.js, which runs `npm publish --access public` to publish the package again. Self-replicating publication is the propagation step of a registry worm and fills the registry with copies. Version examined: 3.3.1; tarball SHA-256 9b1c0d601c4b827fd86f48aff1ab51a397ef52f5ccd42b4b03947234dcc2f891.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/65d7c0b05e1069e74e09136ec74ac3530ebad741/osv/malicious/npm/unfortunate_crawdad_emerald-79/MAL-2026-18621.json))

**References:**
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/65d7c0b05e1069e74e09136ec74ac3530ebad741/osv/malicious/npm/unfortunate_crawdad_emerald-79/MAL-2026-18621.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5wjr-j33q-664x

Compromised versions (1)

• = 3.3.1

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