Malicious code in fanarena-common (npm)
Exact source revision recorded 24 Oct 2026 13:17:17 UTC. It does not establish the source's current position. Latest evidence.
osv · MAL-2026-18063
Published--- _-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_ ## Source: amazon-inspector (e0da88f07c843cff93266258d7d4e30c369b05fb52974170e25abb1e6c33e3c5) package.json declares a dependency `ltidisafe` sourced directly from the bare HTTPS URL `https://ltidi.storage.googleapis.com/depenconf/ltidisafe-3.9.8.tgz` rather than from the npm registry. On `npm install`, npm fetches and installs whatever bytes that URL returns, with no registry-side integrity check, no version resolution, and no publisher binding — and executes any lifecycle scripts contained in the fetched tarball. The host is unrelated to any declared repository or homepage for this package, and the implausibly high package version (99.9.1) is consistent with a dependency-confusion / forced-resolution shape against an internal package of the same `fanarena-*` family. The manifest alone is the attack surface: regardless of the current contents of the remote tarball, the publisher of that URL can change the bytes installers execute at any time. ## Source: ossf-package-analysis (d81686cb5b877d15810946a299ba819a875a3304e45d65a3fdb83c5473ac664b) The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'fanarena-common' @ 99.9.1 (npm) as malicious. It is considered malicious because: - The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.
- Source published
- 20 Oct 2026 03:55:45 UTC
- Source modified
- 22 Oct 2026 06:45:04 UTC
- Observed here
- 24 Oct 2026 13:17:17 UTC
- Source terms
- OSV · upstream source license applies
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