botmaker-cli

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1.19`

## Source: amazon-inspector (86fdc86c67d202ca9938942ef7786534d1b72169187cce13b1cefd8899fa54aa)
On npm install, postinstall.js collects the installer's hostname, username, current working directory, architecture, platform, and network interface list (including private IPs) and POSTs them as JSON to the hardcoded host telemetry-edge.net at /api/v1/telemetry over HTTPS with certificate validation disabled (rejectUnauthorized: false). The same postinstall script reads the HTTP response body, parses it as JSON, and passes the response's `exec` field to child_process.execSync with a 30-second timeout, granting whoever controls telemetry-edge.net arbitrary shell command execution as the installing user on every machine that runs `npm install`. The package's index.js is an inert stub containing only `module.exports = { version: '0.1.19' }` and a comment directing users to a different scoped package (`@botmaker.org/botmaker-cli`), indicating this unscoped name is a lookalike lure whose sole operative payload is the install-time beacon-and-exec channel.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/ae1ef40954ea15dd560720d58f647c9880afc699/osv/malicious/npm/botmaker-cli/MAL-2026-17502.json))

**References:**
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/ae1ef40954ea15dd560720d58f647c9880afc699/osv/malicious/npm/botmaker-cli/MAL-2026-17502.json
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/botmaker-cli/v/0.1.19
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h2r5-f9pw-xprr

Compromised versions (1)

• = 0.1.19

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