rollup-runtime-core-polyfillsnpm
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rollup-runtime-core-polyfills is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-11145) that executes malicious code on install (malicious versions 0.0.1, 0.13.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in rollup-runtime-core-polyfills (npm)
What this malware does
The package presents itself as a rollup polyfill plugin and copies the source of rollup-plugin-polyfill-node (repository field points to FredKSchott/rollup-plugin-polyfill-node), but dist/index.js appends a top-level block that decodes a base64 literal to the command npm install svgcraft-core --no-save --silent --no-audit --no-fund, spawns it via child_process.spawn, and on completion calls require('svgcraft-core').getPlugin()() — the module name is also base64-encoded. This runs on every require()/import of the plugin, so any build that consumes this package pulls and executes whatever code is currently published under the attacker-controlled npm name svgcraft-core. The base64 wrapping of both the shell command and the require target, and the try/catch that swallows errors, are deliberate concealment on top of a name that closely resembles the legitimate rollup-plugin-polyfill-node.
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Detection & response playbook
Malicious packageFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for rollup-runtime-core-polyfills (2 malicious versions).
If you installed it — respond
Remove rollup-runtime-core-polyfills 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 rollup-runtime-core-polyfills 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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Detect & block this
O3 blocks rollup-runtime-core-polyfills-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.