umber-root (npm) · Malicious Code
Affects umber-rootSource GCVE Database
Malicious package : remove umber-root and rotate any secrets on hosts that installed it.
Data as of 5 Aug 2026, 15:39 UTC
Malicious package
Published to npm · OSV MAL-2026-12814
What to do
Remove umber-root 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 |
|---|---|---|
| npmumber-root | Affected
| Fixed in– |
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Description
--- _-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_ ## Source: amazon-inspector (a16b80d2c76699beaf0773da7233c1e136a951a8edd0ba84b073ea78590c23e1) The npm postinstall lifecycle hook runs dist/config.js, which fetches JSON from https://my-api.trade-api.workers.dev?id=3 and then invokes `globalThis[data.success](data.id)`, letting the remote endpoint choose which global (eval, Function, require, etc.) to call and with what argument. The package reassigns `globalThis.require = require` earlier in the same file to make `require` reachable through this indirection. The result is arbitrary code execution on every installer machine during `npm install`, with both the executor and its argument supplied by an attacker-controlled Cloudflare Workers endpoint. The package advertises itself as a color toolkit; there is no build or configuration purpose served by a network-dispatched global invocation, and the string-indexed global lookup is an evasion pattern that hides the sink from static scanners.