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Malicious package : remove mci-sdk and rotate any secrets on hosts that installed it.

Data as of 10 Jul 2026, 09:29 UTC

Classification

Malicious package

Published to npm · OSV MAL-2026-5931

What to do

Remove mci-sdk 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

ProductAffectedFixed in
npmmci-sdkAffected
  • =1.2.8
  • =1.2.10
Fixed in–

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Description

--- _-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_ ## Source: amazon-inspector (1ae26c09350fdf9fb630e382c71dd730583ba1822122d232cde49a259597264f) On `npm install`, mci-sdk runs the postinstall hook `node./src/exec.js`, which imports `mci` from `src/core/index.js` and invokes it at module top level. The function reads a base64-encoded value stored as `MULTI_CHAIN_CONFIG.dev.apiKey` in `src/core/config.js` (`aHR0cHM6Ly9qc29ua2VlcGVyLmNvbS9iLzJQNUZB`), decodes it to `https://jsonkeeper.com/b/2P5FA`, fetches the JSON via axios, and pipes `response.data.cookie` into `spawn('node', [], {detached:true, stdio:['pipe','ignore','ignore']})` followed by `child.unref()`. The fetched payload is therefore executed as Node.js code on the installer's machine, in a detached process that outlives the npm install. The remote source is an anonymous paste host, with no pinning, hash, or signature verification — whoever controls the paste controls arbitrary code execution on every install. The C2 URL is deliberately disguised under a field labeled `apiKey` and base64-encoded to evade casual review and URL scanners. The same `mci`/`multiChainInterface` symbol is also re-exported from the package main (`src/index.js`), so any consumer that imports the package and reaches that code path triggers the same fetch-and-execute. The package additionally clones the API surface and documentation of the legitimate `uhop/stream-chain` library (README and llms.txt link to `github.com/uhop/stream-chain/wiki/...`) to attract developers seeking that package. ## Source: ghsa-malware (d0c6ac0d077500898b1b81d4fa254cb9242af2a7fdbf1d4eaf53666ecfe018b2) Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.

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