Malicious Package Affecting faster-axios package, versions *
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- published2 Jun 2026
- disclosed1 Jun 2026
Introduced: 1 Jun 2026
Malicious CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-506 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Avoid using all malicious instances of the faster-axios package.
Overview
faster-axios is a malicious package.
This package contains malicious code associated with the Epsilon Stealer malware campaign. While this package attempts to impersonate a legitimate performance-enhanced version of the axios HTTP client, there is no connection between the axios project or its maintainers and this package's authorship.