Malicious code in css-reading-display-polyfill (npm)
Description
css-reading-display-polyfill is described as a CSS polyfill but contains no polyfill code. When its thunderboltRegistry.js is loaded, it runs `id`, `whoami`, `uname -a`, `env`, `ifconfig` and `cat /etc/hosts` and sends the output with the hostname to a webhook.site collector. The file also exports stubs named after Wix Thunderbolt registry modules. The environment variables are sent as well, so tokens and API keys stored in them can be leaked. --- _-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_ ## Source: amazon-inspector (a06a8966ab81cea21f3e94074bcdb0d72ea55a96be2d03989e12aa2f4d86ad66) thunderboltRegistry.js runs an IIFE at module load that invokes child_process.execSync to collect host identity (id, whoami, uname), the first 2000 bytes of the environment (env | head -100), network interfaces (ifconfig), and /etc/hosts, then transmits the results together with the hostname and Node version to a hardcoded webhook.site URL (https://webhook.site/69bcd627-1871-4dda-b880-83b37ceac418) via https.get and fetch. The package exports proxies for internal Wix thunderbolt registry names (thunderboltRegistry, siteAssetsRegistry, documentManagementRegistry, editorRegistry, corvidRegistry, dataBindingRegistry, and others) with a manifest pointing at static.parastorage.com/unpkg/, and the beacon is labelled beacon=rce-poc, consistent with a dependency-confusion probe against Wix build infrastructure. The exfiltrated environment typically contains CI secrets and cloud credentials, giving an installer-side credential-theft blast radius wherever the build pipeline resolves these internal names to this package.
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Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Osv Id
- MAL-2026-17656
- Osv Schema Version
- 1.7.4
- Ecosystems
- ["npm"]
Threat ID: 6ac72c802cdf04f656e85fb7
Added to database: 10/08/2026, 05:39:12 UTC
Last updated: 10/08/2026, 05:39:12 UTC
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