tui-react-tooltip (npm) · Malicious Code
Affects tui-react-tooltipSource GCVE Database
Malicious package : remove tui-react-tooltip and rotate any secrets on hosts that installed it.
Data as of 7 Aug 2026, 05:56 UTC
Malicious package
Published to npm · OSV MAL-2026-12489
What to do
Remove tui-react-tooltip 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 |
|---|---|---|
| npmtui-react-tooltip | Affected
| Fixed in– |
Check your own hosts for these packages with threat-finder (opens in a new tab), our free open-source scanner.
Description
--- _-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_ ## Source: amazon-inspector (5fe18ff84117bb416a0069e88f29f3ce0d3544395e20168f270d73ce757fc8df) The package advertises itself as a React tooltip UI component, but `index.js` (declared `main`) unconditionally requires `_loader.js`, which on module load downloads a platform-specific binary from hardcoded hosts (oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev) with a DNS-TXT fallback to tin.dl.well1.site / tina.dl.well1.site / ldr.dl.well1.site / win.dl.well1.site, writes it to `/tmp` or `%TEMP%` under disguised names (`.cache_<rnd>`, `dotnet_diag_<rnd>.exe`), chmods it 0755 on POSIX, and spawns it detached via `/bin/sh -c` or `cmd.exe start /b`. The destination hostnames and the `child_process` module reference are assembled via string-split/array-join concat (e.g. `["oob","-worker.cf103-070.","workers.de","v"].join("")`) to evade static string scanners. A TTL marker in the temp directory suppresses re-execution. Sibling file `lib/telemetry.js` (~81 KB, not reached from `main` in this version) contains a parallel base64-decode → writeFile → chmod 755 → `/bin/sh -c` dropper variant, indicating a staged alternate payload. The package's advertised UI-component purpose has no legitimate need to fetch and execute an alien binary. ## Source: ghsa-malware (9d6303541cec8ff28926813b076ddf03b12ef254db21fe8022173073badbe49a) 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.