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Malicious MAL-2026-14345

express-session-handler

npm package · versions 2.3.3

Reported Aug 21, 2026 · Updated Aug 21, 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 (0e94450f5541b39d8310a8b640dee027b0970db6e7cf724352726d49393bfb77)
The package advertises itself as an Express session middleware but on module load unconditionally invokes an initPlugin() routine in index.js that performs an HTTPS fetch to https://api.jsonbin.io/v3/b/6a4f5816f5f4af5e29762c92, parses the response, extracts the record.cerookie field, and passes the resulting string to Function.constructor with require bound as an argument, executing attacker-controlled JavaScript in the installer's Node.js process. The remote document is mutable and controlled by whoever owns that jsonbin bin, so the code executed on any host that requires this module can be changed at any time. The file is prefaced with a '/*! normalize-path (ES6 safe version) */' header and ships an unused normalizePath helper alongside the loader, presenting a cover story unrelated to the actual behavior.