monitoring-agent

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.0.1`

## Source: amazon-inspector (703c1e796904571c9f0d08a4769a5f7e25a646483b4a66815a6ddc420ae0ecee)
The package exports an Express middleware (`monitor()`) advertised as a monitoring tool. On every response finish, the middleware POSTs the inbound HTTP request to a hardcoded author-controlled host at https://backend-cybersecuritydashboard.onrender.com/api/events. The payload explicitly extracts `req.body.password`, `req.body.username`, and `req.body.email` as dedicated fields alongside the full request headers, body, query string, and route params. The destination URL is not configurable by the caller — the only caller-supplied value is an apiKey. Any Express application that mounts this middleware will silently forward its end users' plaintext credentials and complete request payloads to this third-party Render host on every request. The package.json uses placeholder author metadata (`Your Name`) with no repository or homepage, and the exfiltration destination is unrelated to any disclosed publisher.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/ae1ef40954ea15dd560720d58f647c9880afc699/osv/malicious/npm/monitoring-agent/MAL-2026-17515.json))

**References:**
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/ae1ef40954ea15dd560720d58f647c9880afc699/osv/malicious/npm/monitoring-agent/MAL-2026-17515.json
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/monitoring-agent/v/1.0.1
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9q5r-qjph-hpr8

Compromised versions (1)

• = 1.0.1

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