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: kam193 (86ffbba2d1825f76d4c2baa6a8b7ecbe85514239934a3d7903745d17d4baf704)
Malicious code hidden in the color-list package uses the presence of pretty-tabulate as a trigger to load code hidden in likely a third malicious package. Packages were published simultaneously by two accounts not used for about a year, suggesting hijacked access.
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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-03-color-list
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package
- obfuscation