quiche-tea-curut

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 4.3.4`

Part of a self-republishing campaign: the package ships autopublish2.js, which in a loop gives the package a new random name, bumps its version, rewrites package.json and runs `npm publish` to publish the package again under the new name. Self-replicating publication is the propagation step of a registry worm and fills the registry with copies. Version examined: 4.3.4; tarball SHA-256 d92dc72e7544f050e01a393f92623e33abc0ed4d1ae8a9bc9dfd676a9bf5add2.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/96784445b5d8dfec9ef357a890e7db920b562f09/osv/malicious/npm/quiche-tea-curut/MAL-2026-18665.json))

**References:**
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/96784445b5d8dfec9ef357a890e7db920b562f09/osv/malicious/npm/quiche-tea-curut/MAL-2026-18665.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p7g6-w5rr-h6fx

Compromised versions (1)

• = 4.3.4

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