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Malicious MAL-2026-10901 GHSA-8wj2-r9xj-g9p3

solana-web3-lts

npm package · versions 1.0.0

Reported Jul 20, 2026 · Updated Sep 1, 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 (51efd3d5cdcb8fb794a1702f586abd7018d86aad3e40286f5a43dd1127d804ed)
Package name 'solana-web3-lts' resembles the widely-used '@solana/web3.js' Solana SDK, raising name-confusion concerns for installers reaching for the official client. The shipped library bundles (lib/index.cjs.js, lib/index.esm.js) contain co-occurring use of child_process, fetch/POST/GET, and shell utilities (curl, ping) within large minified files; pattern-level signals match exfiltration shapes but full semantic tracing of the bundle did not complete, so it is not confirmed whether these primitives are reachable from an install/import path or are part of legitimate SDK functionality (e.g., RPC HTTP transports, build tooling). Recommend human review of the bundle to determine whether the child_process + network combination represents a hardcoded C2 exfiltration path or benign SDK code, and to confirm the package's relationship (if any) to the official Solana web3 client.