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Malicious MAL-2026-18353 GHSA-ph3g-jrf5-8792

csec-form-validatorr

npm package · versions 0.0.0-stage

Reported Oct 27, 2026 · Updated Oct 29, 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 (aff8facc55023666afe4d90942161c6319aee23e3bbfc66fc3cd05a828e15140)
Package csec-form-validatorr version 0.0.0-stage ships a minimal set of files with no observed install-time lifecycle execution, no network exfiltration, no credential or filesystem reads outside the package, and no code that would harm an installer on npm install or require. The version suffix and small file count are consistent with a placeholder or staging release rather than a functional library. The package name resembles a form-validation utility but no concrete malicious behavior is present in the shipped contents.

Source: ghsa-malware (bf6f10a65ed9643f6b0d7d9021c929e7931a26695b332a13c64d96ac7ccfd1c6)
Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.