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Malicious MAL-2026-10184

mongoose-schema-unique

npm package · versions 4.0.4, 4.0.3, 4.0.2

Reported Jul 10, 2026 · Updated Jul 10, 2026

If this package is installed

Remove it, treat the machine (or CI runner) as compromised, and rotate every secret, token and key it could access — from a different, clean machine.

Details

Source: amazon-inspector (7e3806417e775917428aeea0eb50ecbfec0bc2220282bee33f4138ff43e80dca)
index.js runs an async IIFE at module load that performs an outbound fetch to https://www.jsonkeeper.com/b/XVHGD (an anonymous, mutable, public JSON-paste service) and forwards the response's `data.data` field to a worker thread via `worker.postMessage({ type: 'RUN_ERROR_THREAD', payload: data.data })`. The referenced worker module (`./worker-singleton`) is not present in the tarball. Every `require('mongoose-schema-unique')` triggers this fetch, and the paste host lets whoever controls the paste ID substitute new content at any time without a package release, so the payload dispatched into worker execution is attacker-mutable. The behavior is unrelated to the package's documented purpose (a Mongoose uniqueness-validation plugin). The 4.0.3 release also changes the repository URL to a new `mongoose-schema-unique/mongoose-schema-unique` GitHub org while keeping the original author metadata and jumps the major version with a `mongoose ^8` peer dependency — consistent with a name/maintainer takeover of an established package used to ship an import-time remote-code delivery channel to downstream installers.