mal-2025-191586
Vulnerability from ossf_malicious_packages
Published
2025-12-01 13:25
Modified
2026-03-19 12:23
Summary
Malicious code in session-validate (npm)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (91001b31023cb6f1a30d084b1c484e703936c4378ac7b76fc85dd023771cd8d2)

The package session-validate was found to contain malicious code.

Credits
Amazon Inspector actran@amazon.com
ReversingLabs www.reversinglabs.com
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "session-validate",
        "purl": "pkg:npm/session-validate"
      },
      "versions": [
        "2.2.4",
        "2.2.6"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "SNYK-JS-SESSIONVALIDATE-14152304"
  ],
  "credits": [
    {
      "contact": [
        "actran@amazon.com"
      ],
      "name": "Amazon Inspector",
      "type": "FINDER"
    },
    {
      "contact": [
        "https://www.reversinglabs.com"
      ],
      "name": "ReversingLabs",
      "type": "FINDER"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
      {
        "id": "RLMA-2025-05943",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T09:09:53.847815103Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-12-01T13:25:08Z",
        "sha256": "bff5ac17a2607f91faa5d24a60de6aa603dfee3517d8e626394260e6a4ab5f9b",
        "source": "reversing-labs",
        "versions": [
          "2.2.4",
          "2.2.6"
        ]
      },
      {
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T21:35:52.34952924Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-12-02T21:11:00Z",
        "sha256": "91001b31023cb6f1a30d084b1c484e703936c4378ac7b76fc85dd023771cd8d2",
        "source": "amazon-inspector",
        "versions": [
          "2.2.4",
          "2.2.6"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "RLUA-2025-06480",
        "import_time": "2025-12-24T10:07:35.622671744Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-12-23T08:30:14Z",
        "sha256": "2baff92083ec620c268cc5f62644cfed43b773f115adb70f916c87ac5f7ff0a1",
        "source": "reversing-labs"
      },
      {
        "id": "RLUA-2026-01561",
        "import_time": "2026-03-19T12:20:59.706665894Z",
        "modified_time": "2026-03-18T13:09:06Z",
        "sha256": "9ce1b0f141873cb25e0a971b603b10b1b840dc92824a6a40884d7600f7a82a30",
        "source": "reversing-labs"
      }
    ]
  },
  "details": "\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: amazon-inspector (91001b31023cb6f1a30d084b1c484e703936c4378ac7b76fc85dd023771cd8d2)\nThe package session-validate was found to contain malicious code.\n",
  "id": "MAL-2025-191586",
  "modified": "2026-03-19T12:23:23Z",
  "published": "2025-12-01T13:25:08Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ARTICLE",
      "url": "https://socket.dev/blog/north-korea-contagious-interview-npm-attacks"
    },
    {
      "type": "ARTICLE",
      "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2025/11/north-korean-hackers-deploy-197-npm.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SESSIONVALIDATE-14152304"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.4",
  "summary": "Malicious code in session-validate (npm)"
}



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