@sqlite-prime/nodesqlnpm
@sqlite-prime/nodesql is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-13716) that executes malicious code on install (malicious versions 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.6). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in @sqlite-prime/nodesql (npm)
What this malware does
@sqlite-prime/[email protected] ships a verbatim copy of the well-known buffer library as its main entry (index.js) with a single injected top-level statement var ins = import('@sqlite-prime/createsql'); that dynamically loads the sibling scoped package @sqlite-prime/createsql (declared as a dependency, ^1.0.1) whenever a consumer require()s this module. The sibling package's code is not shipped in this tarball, is unpinned, and is unrelated to the advertised buffer polyfill functionality. Package identity is inconsistent across metadata: package.json names the package @sqlite-prime/nodesql, the README titles the project bare-stream and instructs npm i @sql-access/nods, the LICENSE header is copied from the type-is project (Jonathan Ong / Douglas Christopher Wilson), and the code is copied from Feross Aboukhadijeh's buffer. This is the canonical loader/staging shape: a benign-looking copy of a popular library with an injected import that pulls in and executes an external, unrelated package at load time.
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
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Detection & response playbook
Malicious packageFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for @sqlite-prime/nodesql (3 malicious versions). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging @sqlite-prime/nodesql across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
Remove @sqlite-prime/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-prime/nodesql was ever installed, its post-install/runtime payload may have already executed. O3's L7 egress monitoring and runtime eBPF sensors detect the credential exfiltration or command-and-control callback after install and block the malicious outbound channel, so you catch and contain the actual compromise — not just the presence of the package.
How O3 protects you
O3 blocks @sqlite-prime/nodesql before install through its supply-chain scanner, and if it has already run, detects and severs the exfiltration or C2 callback at runtime through L7 egress monitoring and eBPF.
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Detect & block this
O3 blocks @sqlite-prime/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.