deposit-limit-fe

GHSA-pwj2-g23f-p5jg

Malicious code in deposit-limit-fe (npm)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 100.100.106`

## Source: amazon-inspector (89565d767d3541470834dc9764af6e4abbe4acb5ba4eb721f7e3008e3a80b1d2)
[email protected] is published as a 'Deposit limit frontend utilities' library but its main entry (index.js) exports an empty object and ships no real functionality. package.json declares `postinstall: node postinstall.js`, which require()s a bundled Linux x64 native addon at `prebuilds/linux-x64/addon.node` inside a silenced try/catch. The addon has no corresponding C/C++ source or binding.gyp in the tarball. On load it reads the environment variables HOSTNAME, USER, npm_package_name, and npm_config_registry, forks, opens a TCP socket to the hardcoded bare IP 64.181.165.115, and sends `POST /dc HTTP/1.0` with a form-encoded body `h=<hostname>&p=<package>&u=<user>&r=<registry>`. The anomalous 100.100.101 version and the explicit exfiltration of `npm_config_registry` are the fingerprint of a dependency-confusion reconnaissance beacon targeting an internal/private npm registry package name. Installing this package automatically leaks the installer's hostname, OS username, and private npm registry URL to an attacker-controlled endpoint and executes opaque native code on the installer's machine.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/ff41f6680a0ebbef2268cdb5daf253d4b400cb05/osv/malicious/npm/deposit-limit-fe/MAL-2026-17769.json))

**References:**
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/ff41f6680a0ebbef2268cdb5daf253d4b400cb05/osv/malicious/npm/deposit-limit-fe/MAL-2026-17769.json
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/deposit-limit-fe/v/100.100.101
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/deposit-limit-fe/v/100.100.102
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/deposit-limit-fe/v/100.100.106
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pwj2-g23f-p5jg

Compromised versions (1)

= 100.100.106

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