vite-json-confignpm
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vite-json-config is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-4705) that opens a backdoor for remote access (malicious version 1.0.5). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in vite-json-config (npm)
What this malware does
The package presents itself as a vite/tsconfig path helper and clones the public API of tsconfig-paths (createMatchPath, matchFromAbsolutePaths, register, loadConfig). A new exported configJson entry point spawns a detached node lib/mapProps.js child process via child_process.spawn(..., { detached: true, stdio: 'ignore' }) (lib/config-loader.js). lib/mapProps.js performs an HTTPS GET to https://www.jsonkeeper.com/b/5IZTJ — an anonymous, mutable JSON paste host — and passes the response's Cookie field directly to new Function('require', s)(require), giving the publisher arbitrary code execution inside the consumer process with full require access. The fetch URL and header are concealed by shadowing process with a local object whose env uses cover-story names (DEV_API_KEY, DEV_SECRET_KEY, DEV_SECRET_VALUE) that actually hold the C2 URL and HTTP header. There is no integrity check on the fetched payload; the paste content can be changed at any time by whoever controls the jsonkeeper.com entry. Combined with the cloned legitimate-package API surface, this is a deliberate supply-chain dropper, not a coding mistake.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Backdoor / remote accessFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for vite-json-config (version 1.0.5).
If you installed it — respond
vite-json-config establishes remote access, so treat any host that installed it as fully compromised. Isolate the machine, remove the package, rotate all credentials it could reach, and rebuild from a trusted image rather than cleaning in place — a backdoor may have planted additional persistence.
Did it already run?
If vite-json-config 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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Credits
- Amazon Inspector · finder
Detect & block this
O3 blocks vite-json-config-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the C2 callback and severs the channel.