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CRITICAL KEV Used in ransomware campaigns

Malware in 42 @tanstack/* packages exfiltrates cloud credentials, GitHub tokens, and SSH keys

Published May 12, 2026 ·Due Jun 10, 2026

Description

On 2026-05-11, between approximately 19:20 and 19:26 UTC, 84 malicious versions across 42 @tanstack/* packages were published to the npm registry. The publishes were authenticated via the legitimate GitHub Actions OIDC trusted-publisher binding for TanStack/router, but the publish workflow itself was not modified. The attacker chained three known vulnerability classes — a pull_request_target "Pwn Request" misconfiguration, GitHub Actions cache poisoning across the fork↔base trust boundary, and runtime memory extraction of the OIDC token from the Actions runner process — to publish credential-stealing malware under a trusted identity. Each affected package received exactly two malicious versions, published a few minutes apart.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner GitHub_M
Published May 12, 2026
Updated Aug 4, 2026
Reserved May 11, 2026
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated May 27, 2026
NVD
Status Analyzed
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
GHSA-G7CV-RXG3-HMPX