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Malicious package

vite-plugin-cryptonpm

Advisory published Updated

vite-plugin-crypto is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-17222) that executes malicious code on install (malicious versions 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2…). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

Malicious code in vite-plugin-crypto (npm)

MAL-2026-17222
Immediate action
Remove the package, then rotate any secrets the build/runtime could reach.
npm uninstall vite-plugin-crypto

What this malware does

[email protected] exposes a Vite plugin factory whose body concatenates three option fields — secret, salt, and iv — into a single string and passes it to System.import(...) from the systemjs runtime module loader, discarding the returned promise with .then(() => {}). Only secret is used by the advertised AES-GCM encrypt() path; salt and iv are declared on the options type but are absent from the documented options table and are unused by the real crypto code (which generates its own random salt/IV per call). The concatenated string is treated as a module specifier by SystemJS, which resolves URLs and executes fetched JavaScript, so whoever controls these option values obtains arbitrary JavaScript execution on the Vite build/dev host each time the config is loaded. Pulling in a browser-oriented dynamic module loader as the package's only runtime dependency, naming the concatenated input derivedSecret, and swallowing the promise frame the remote-loader call as a benign key-derivation step. Base64 decoding in dist/index.cjs and dist/index.js is used within the AES-GCM helper. The trigger fires at plugin construction during vite build / vite dev.

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

5 flagged
1.0.01.0.11.0.21.0.51.0.6

Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)

fdaf333e613f70df12ceaf378093d996a4bc1dd4df1a6350c4848a5de0fb83e7
54ee82c069dcdf259199f5844c6ff46be3020d79609ff7b7b8ebc82017c59b2c
991fcc5c93cbfa1b4414004314032fdc2cc976c9461923b3872d424f560323d5
ed699d91a10f9a0478d9db02fc5c2716985435ee3ebc3be0cb3d45863e36462a
045d711b35221e081b21788c57ee2fae74b06d15f9801674c82f3901a6c59bf1
ca3290574635349dd579841116cda38878885e7d211ae6078702369bd3fd15e8

Detection & response playbook

Malicious package
  1. Find it

    Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for vite-plugin-crypto (5 malicious versions).

  2. If you installed it — respond

    Remove vite-plugin-crypto 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.

  3. Did it already run?

    If vite-plugin-crypto 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.

Frequently asked questions

No. vite-plugin-crypto on npm has been identified as a malicious package (versions 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.5, 1.0.6 flagged). It should be removed immediately — do not install or keep it in your dependency tree.

Campaign

GHSA-mh9w-qr45-6wrqIN-MAL-2026-020603IN-MAL-2026-020596IN-MAL-2026-020597IN-MAL-2026-020706IN-MAL-2026-020705

References

Credits

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Detect & block this

O3 blocks vite-plugin-crypto-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.

Explore

vite-plugin-crypto (npm) malicious package — MAL-2026-17222 | O3 Security