data-value

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 45.0.0`

## Source: amazon-inspector (aa1f0fee2d6635331e603f520ba2954b11ac9e85bbd5b66f27c18be5940c3041)
package.json declares the package's own name 'data-value' as a dependency whose source is an arbitrary HTTPS URL (https://repo.securityctrl.com/data-value) rather than a registry version range. On npm install, npm fetches whatever bytes that URL returns and runs any lifecycle scripts inside the fetched tarball, with no version pin and no integrity check. The dependency key matching the package's own name is a dependency-confusion shape that forces resolution to this off-registry source. The shipped index.js is an inert stub, so the manifest line itself is the entire published payload — whoever controls repo.securityctrl.com controls code executed on the installer's machine at install time.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/d75ebb673b0185a99abe46e9e4a60aaa467fa7d8/osv/malicious/npm/data-value/MAL-2026-15533.json))

**References:**
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/d75ebb673b0185a99abe46e9e4a60aaa467fa7d8/osv/malicious/npm/data-value/MAL-2026-15533.json
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/data-value/v/45.0.0
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rv73-wgh6-57xc

Compromised versions (1)

• = 45.0.0

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