@dbbhk/ui-components

GHSA-hwx5-436m-736q

Malicious code in @dbbhk/ui-components (npm)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 99.0.0`

## Source: amazon-inspector (478839dda68d2c5eefa1a55557602d4b12396c988211b28d785af531d0b19d07)
@dbbhk/[email protected] declares both preinstall and postinstall hooks in package.json that execute `node callback.js`, so the payload runs automatically on `npm install`. callback.js queries the AWS instance metadata service at 169.254.169.254 for IAM role credentials, reads ECS task-role credentials via AWS_CONTAINER_CREDENTIALS_RELATIVE_URI, iterates process.env harvesting variables matching AWS/SECRET/KEY/TOKEN/PASSWORD/CREDENTIAL/AUTH/API/NPM/GITHUB/GITLAB patterns, and reads credential files including ~/.aws/credentials, /root/.aws/credentials, ~/.npmrc,.env,.npmrc, and the Kubernetes service-account token at /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token. It also collects host reconnaissance (hostname, whoami, id, platform, cwd, home directory, and CI-provider fingerprint for GitHub Actions/GitLab/Jenkins). Collected data is POSTed via https.request to api.telegram.org/bot<token>/sendMessage against a hardcoded Telegram bot and chat id 1064260758. The package name and scope impersonate an HSBC internal component (dependency-confusion shape with an implausibly high 99.0.0 version), and a header comment self-labels the file as an HSBC bug-bounty PoC; the code performs indiscriminate credential harvesting on any installer regardless of that framing.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/af486be301974b4c4068b1c7baa77731f37fa05e/osv/malicious/npm/@dbbhk/ui-components/MAL-2026-16319.json))

**References:**
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/af486be301974b4c4068b1c7baa77731f37fa05e/osv/malicious/npm/@dbbhk/ui-components/MAL-2026-16319.json
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/@dbbhk/ui-components/v/99.0.0
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hwx5-436m-736q

Compromised versions (1)

= 99.0.0

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