Malicious Package Affecting sextant-cli-darwin-arm64 package, versions =0.0.1-rc37=0.0.1-rc10=0.0.1-rc11=0.0.1-rc7=0.0.1-rc26=0.0.1-rc22=0.0.1-rc32=0.0.1-rc30=0.0.1-rc8=0.0.1-rc12=0.0.1-rc29=0.0.1-rc9=0.0.1-rc5=0.0.1-rc33=0.0.1-rc27=0.0.1-rc34=0.0.1-rc6=0.0.1-rc13=0.0.1-rc28=0.0.1-rc20=0.0.1-rc15=0.0.1-rc21=0.0.1-rc16=0.0.1-rc17=0.0.1-rc35=0.0.1-rc25=0.0.1-rc23=0.0.1-rc19=0.0.1-rc14=0.0.1-rc31=0.0.1-rc24
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
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- published6 Aug 2026
- disclosed5 Aug 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 5 Aug 2026
New 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 sextant-cli-darwin-arm64 package.
Overview
sextant-cli-darwin-arm64 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.