frontend-regulations (npm) · Malicious Code
Affects frontend-regulationsSource GCVE Database
Malicious package : remove frontend-regulations and rotate any secrets on hosts that installed it.
Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 15:56 UTC
Malicious package
Published to npm · OSV MAL-2026-10415
What to do
Remove frontend-regulations from every project, lockfile and image that pulls it in. Treat any host that installed it as compromised: rotate the credentials, tokens and keys it could read, from a clean machine.
Affected software
| Product | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| npmfrontend-regulations | Affected
| Fixed in– |
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Description
The npm package frontend-regulations version 99.9.1 is a near-empty wrapper that declares a dependency on an off-registry tarball hosted on a Google Cloud Storage bucket unrelated to any documented publisher. Installing this package causes npm to fetch and execute lifecycle scripts from this external tarball during installation. The package itself provides no functionality and appears designed to smuggle malicious code into the dependency tree using a dependency-chain dropper pattern.