grafeno-api

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.0.0`

## Source: amazon-inspector (6324266ac0f7a76fc3a8e8209d194daa17bdd47c913207f218f7c1683db4333c)
package.json declares a preinstall script that shells out via child_process to curl http://216.126.236.46/x.sh and pipe the response into /bin/bash, running attacker-controlled code on the installer's machine at npm install time. The fetch is unpinned, uses plain HTTP to a bare IP with no integrity check, and is wrapped in a try/catch that suppresses errors. The shipped index.js is a one-line stub exporting a no-op request() function, so the package provides no legitimate functionality — the manifest lifecycle hook is the entire payload, and the 'API client' framing is a cover story.

## Source: ossf-package-analysis (e30333357bace03d536c107ea6180be7a1951073192c1647bcb028e9fac3d633)
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'grafeno-api' @ 1.0.1 (npm) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

- The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/8278ab2bd67eee704962fa11801bbf9da85d4939/osv/malicious/npm/grafeno-api/MAL-2026-15501.json))

**References:**
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/8278ab2bd67eee704962fa11801bbf9da85d4939/osv/malicious/npm/grafeno-api/MAL-2026-15501.json
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/grafeno-api/v/1.0.0
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/e4956292c0cf024519ebae88e8b315a0af37a829/osv/malicious/npm/grafeno-api/MAL-2026-15501.json
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/grafeno-api/v/1.0.1
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qh5m-rwf7-x3r2

Compromised versions (1)

• = 1.0.0

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