Malicious Package Affecting @car-loans/general-analytics package, versions =99.99.99
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- published1 Jun 2026
- disclosed31 May 2026
Introduced: 31 May 2026
New Malicious CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-506 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Avoid using all malicious instances of the @car-loans/general-analytics package.
Overview
@car-loans/general-analytics is a malicious package.
This package contains malicious code, and its content was removed from the official package manager. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid organization, there is no connection between that organization and this package authorship.
The package belongs to a highly targeted dependency confusion campaign. It utilizes npm postinstall hooks to trigger a multi-stage attack, incorporating an execution delay to evade sandboxes, downloading a secondary script, and exfiltrating full environment variables containing sensitive development secrets to an external command-and-control server.