Malicious code in mintel-taskbar (npm)
--- _-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_ ## Source: amazon-inspector (5ebda78171ac8816c0e350f84923af0bad54c075f91cfcc1a7bcc26d36674c4f) package.json line 11 declares the package's own name 'mintel-taskbar' as a dependency whose source is the bare HTTPS URL https://repo.securityctrl.com/mintel-taskbar, not a registry version range. On `npm install`, npm resolves this dependency by fetching whatever tarball that URL returns and installs it — running any lifecycle scripts inside the fetched tarball — with no version pin and no integrity check. Whoever controls repo.securityctrl.com therefore controls code executed on every installer's machine. The self-referential shape (dependency key equals the package's own name) combined with an implausibly high version (45.0.0) is consistent with a dependency-confusion lure that resolves against an internal package of the same name.
Malicious code in mintel-taskbar (npm)
Description
--- _-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_ ## Source: amazon-inspector (5ebda78171ac8816c0e350f84923af0bad54c075f91cfcc1a7bcc26d36674c4f) package.json line 11 declares the package's own name 'mintel-taskbar' as a dependency whose source is the bare HTTPS URL https://repo.securityctrl.com/mintel-taskbar, not a registry version range. On `npm install`, npm resolves this dependency by fetching whatever tarball that URL returns and installs it — running any lifecycle scripts inside the fetched tarball — with no version pin and no integrity check. Whoever controls repo.securityctrl.com therefore controls code executed on every installer's machine. The self-referential shape (dependency key equals the package's own name) combined with an implausibly high version (45.0.0) is consistent with a dependency-confusion lure that resolves against an internal package of the same name.
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Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Osv Id
- MAL-2026-15514
- Osv Schema Version
- 1.7.4
- Aliases
- []
- Ecosystems
- ["npm"]
- Database Specific Severity
- null
- Cvss Version
- null
Threat ID: 6a92f7e3acd9273b49e75d1a
Added to database: 08/29/2026, 15:16:51 UTC
Last updated: 08/29/2026, 15:17:15 UTC
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