MAL-2025-38654
Vulnerability from ossf_malicious_packages
Published
2025-08-14 18:52
Modified
2025-10-30 06:50
Summary
Malicious code in vscode-notebook-renderer (npm)
Details

The package vscode-notebook-renderer was found to contain malicious code.

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Source: google-open-source-security (065f8a29b916aea70aa9f29ac9cde574ebd734c0cd450699387684aa7e3d60fa)

This package installs a dependency hosted on a custom domain that runs an info stealer during installation. The info stealer focuses on stealing npm, git, and other CI/CD related tokens.

Credits
Amazon Inspector actran@amazon.com
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "vscode-notebook-renderer"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1.0.0"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "credits": [
    {
      "contact": [
        "actran@amazon.com"
      ],
      "name": "Amazon Inspector",
      "type": "FINDER"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
      {
        "import_time": "2025-10-30T03:28:39.132226Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-10-30T03:28:23Z",
        "sha256": "065f8a29b916aea70aa9f29ac9cde574ebd734c0cd450699387684aa7e3d60fa",
        "source": "google-open-source-security",
        "versions": [
          "1.0.0"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "details": "The package vscode-notebook-renderer was found to contain malicious code.\n\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: google-open-source-security (065f8a29b916aea70aa9f29ac9cde574ebd734c0cd450699387684aa7e3d60fa)\nThis package installs a dependency hosted on a custom domain that runs an\ninfo stealer during installation. The info stealer focuses on stealing\nnpm, git, and other CI/CD related tokens.\n",
  "id": "MAL-2025-38654",
  "modified": "2025-10-30T06:50:52Z",
  "published": "2025-08-14T18:52:04Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.koi.ai/blog/phantomraven-npm-malware-hidden-in-invisible-dependencies"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.5.0",
  "summary": "Malicious code in vscode-notebook-renderer (npm)"
}


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