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npm · Malicious package advisory

Malware

vui-gateway

MAL-2026-15546

Malicious code in vui-gateway (npm)

Details


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## Source: amazon-inspector (0411fd70c7f76d71355fcd1ab650dac43afefc55b802d86ad4755b06456bb1ad)
package.json declares a dependency whose key equals this package's own name (`vui-gateway`) and whose source is an off-registry HTTPS URL, `https://repo.securityctrl.com/vui-gateway`. On `npm install`, npm resolves that URL and installs whatever bytes it returns, running any lifecycle scripts contained within. The source is not the npm registry, there is no version pin, and no integrity hash is present, so the content is mutable and unauthenticated — whoever controls `repo.securityctrl.com` controls code execution on the installer's machine. The shipped index.js is an inert stub; the manifest itself is the entire attack surface. The dependency-key-equals-package-name shape is characteristic of dependency-confusion attacks intended to shadow an internal package of the same name.

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.