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Malware

hardhat-starter-kit

GHSA-ppph-hvwj-9wh8

Malicious code in hardhat-starter-kit (npm)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 99.0.1`

## Source: amazon-inspector (127bcfdba774e2dd942b89041f670f62c7523c32b766606d81a1b229b961b1a4)
The package hardhat-starter-kit was found to contain malicious code.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/05b419acdcdd6e02782971da765f32a22a1aed8e/osv/malicious/npm/hardhat-starter-kit/MAL-2026-2769.json))

**References:**
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/05b419acdcdd6e02782971da765f32a22a1aed8e/osv/malicious/npm/hardhat-starter-kit/MAL-2026-2769.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ppph-hvwj-9wh8

Compromised versions (1)

  • = 99.0.1

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