{"id":"MAL-2026-18066","revision":"b75b4991710e4f5aa06eaa8ca9254d7a","records":[{"revision":"b75b4991710e4f5aa06eaa8ca9254d7a","observedAt":"2026-10-29T15:12:22.973+00:00","statement":{"source":"osv","id":"MAL-2026-18066","aliases":[],"title":"Malicious code in animate-twcss-bridge (npm)","description":"animate-twcss-bridge (2.0.6) is a Tailwind CSS plugin from the fake job interview campaign behind MAL-2026-17665 and MAL-2026-17666: the same Animate.css integration template, README and description, published by enterprise0908 on 2026-09-28. src/motion.js:5 requires the private scoped package @aaron205whitmore/postcss-animate-utils, which is not readable on the public registry and resolves only with the npm token committed in the lure repository's web/.npmrc, so the code it delivers runs when tailwind.config.js loads the plugin and the dev server starts. The published tarball contains no install scripts and no network code; the payload lives in the private dependency, which was not retrieved. Twenty-six such packages under seventeen accounts were published between 2026-07-28 and 2026-10-09.\n\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: amazon-inspector (160318d3a79878329f5b84f2ebac0cc3a96d66c03d2cf568d51e45ffd4c66464)\nThe package's shipped contents do not exhibit lifecycle-script execution, remote fetch-and-execute, credential or environment scraping, silent relay of caller data to author-controlled endpoints, or persistence mechanisms. No hardcoded attacker infrastructure, obfuscated payloads, or install/import-time destructive behavior is present.\n","state":0,"publishedAt":"2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00","modifiedAt":"2026-10-29T14:45:06.5298714+00:00","affected":[{"ecosystem":"npm","name":"animate-twcss-bridge","ranges":[],"versions":["2.0.6"],"rawVersionEvidence":null}],"metrics":[],"references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17665","https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17666","https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17667","https://pkgwarden.com/incidents/fake-interview-tailwind-plugins-npm-october-2026/","https://www.npmjs.com/package/animate-twcss-bridge/v/2.0.6"],"sourceUrl":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-18066","license":"OSV · upstream source license applies","key":"osv:MAL-2026-18066","identifiers":["MAL-2026-18066"]},"retained":false,"historicalAffected":[]}],"coverage":[]}