{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00010873","kind":"supply_chain_event","title":"Malicious code in cortana-md-engine (npm)","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-25rm-w924-v83v"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this malware advisory for cortana-md-engine. 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-36e88f98ac04db4809bac56aa270d2f2"],"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-36e88f98ac04db4809bac56aa270d2f2","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-25rm-w924-v83v","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-25rm-w924-v83v","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-10-31T23:13:45.671Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-36e88f98ac04db4809bac56aa270d2f2"],"technology":"cortana-md-engine","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"## Source: amazon-inspector (9a2de4b6992a1dd7177803253b8c214d1ba7cc911cf0e1e7f800e1e9ff7ab5b1)\ncortana-md-engine is a Baileys-based WhatsApp bot whose bundled entrypoints dist/hosted.cjs and dist/index.cjs hardcode five mongodb+srv://cortanauser:...@{cluster2.uvds2qk,cluster3.t2gtazm,cluster4.bwuctn9,cluster5.kdkad04,mass.gcijtck}.mongodb.net Atlas connection strings and, at bot startup, persist the Baileys authState/creds (Session/authState/sessions collections) into those clusters. The MongoDB user credentials are baked into the shipped JavaScript, so the author retains read access to every installer's linked WhatsApp session state — sufficient to hijack the linked WhatsApp account. The relay is not disclosed in the README, which only instructs the user to run npm start. The tarball additionally ships offensive tooling aimed at third-party WhatsApp users (a ~150-entry proxy pool in dist/proxies.cjs, batched reaction and socket-spoof flooding in dist/react-engine.cjs, and abuse commands such as perm-ban-num, cortana-ios-crash, realban, massreport); this is operator-directed abuse capability, separate from the installer-side session exfiltration.\n\n---\n\nCredit: [OpenSSF](https://git","public_affected_ranges":["= 1.4.6"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-10-31T23:18:22.403Z","source_updated_at":"2026-09-30T12:37:18.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-09-30T06:31:43.000Z","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":"2026-10-31T23:13:45.671Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}