TC-2026-0101 · NPM · PACKAGE

[email protected]

Verified clean build of axios published prior to the March 31, 2026 maintainer account hijack. Contains no install lifecycle hooks and no dependency on plain-crypto-js.

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Signed ledger verdict

TC-2026-0101

No known bad (exit 0) npm:[email protected]

IOC & scope: npm:[email protected] (clean release prior to 1.14.1 compromise). Verified by human review and signed into the CC-BY 4.0 OSV v1.6.0 feed.

Credited finder: threat.cafe Baseline Audit ↗
Recorded timestamp: 2026-03-31
Canonical SHA-256: ba5e48f0a5b07964…
Local hook action: Proceed & log (exit 0)

Run live in Counter Workbench

Signed in /feed.json (.sig).

01 8-Vector Capability X-Ray (ABOM) & OWASP Agentic Crosswalk

Deterministic capability profile and taxonomy mapping.

Every artifact in the threat.cafe ledger is profiled across eight execution vectors and mapped to the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications (ASI01-ASI10) and Agentic Skills & Tools (AST01-AST10).

8-Vector Capability X-Ray (ABOM)

1. Filesystem
Sensitive paths touched: None observed
2. Environment
Variables harvested: None observed
3. Network
Outbound egress domains: caller-supplied HTTP/HTTPS URLs
4. Subprocess
Process execution primitives: None observed
5. Lifecycle
Install / startup hooks: None observed
6. OAuth / MCP
Declared scopes: None observed
7. Obfuscation
Encoding / steganography: None observed
8. Provenance
Attestation status: verified_github_actions_provenance

Governance & detector mapping

OWASP Agentic ASI (2026): None triggered (baseline control)
OWASP Agentic AST (2026): None triggered (baseline control)
Deterministic rules matched: Clean baseline control (0 static rules triggered)

Version scoping & related records

TC-2026-0001 (npm:[email protected]): status known_bad — Compromised maintainer account published 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 with malicious dependency [email protected], dr
TC-2026-0011 (npm:[email protected]): status known_bad — Backported 0.x branch of the March 31, 2026 axios maintainer account compromise pulling [email protected]
TC-2026-0102 (npm:[email protected]): status no_known_bad — Verified remediated release of axios following revocation of compromised maintainer credentials and removal of

Local CLI verification

$ threat-cafe-hook check "npm:[email protected]"
[threat.cafe] no_known_bad: npm:[email protected] (TC-2026-0101)
  Reason: Verified clean build of axios published prior to the March 31, 2026 maintainer account hij
  Source: https://www.npmjs.com/package/axios/v/1.14.0 (credited to threat.cafe Baseline Audit)

OSV v1.6.0 machine-readable record

Included in /feed.json under CC-BY 4.0 license and verified by /feed.json.sig.

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  "schema_version": "1.6.0",
  "id": "TC-2026-0101",
  "modified": "2026-03-31T09:00:00Z",
  "published": "2026-03-31T09:00:00Z",
  "summary": "Verified clean build of axios published prior to the March 31, 2026 maintainer account hijack. Contains no install lifecycle hooks and no dependency on plain-crypto-js.",
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "axios"
      },
      "versions": [
        "1.14.0"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "credits": [
    {
      "name": "threat.cafe Baseline Audit",
      "type": "FINDER"
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://www.npmjs.com/package/axios/v/1.14.0"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://threat.cafe/incidents/tc-2026-0101/"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "target": "npm:[email protected]",
    "kind": "package",
    "verdict": "no_known_bad",
    "ioc": "npm:[email protected] (clean release prior to 1.14.1 compromise)",
    "artifact_sha256": "ba5e48f0a5b079648766ee36ec7146499667c80616b1e4465f400a4ab1a9fce8",
    "owasp_asi": [],
    "owasp_ast": [],
    "rules_matched": [],
    "abom": {
      "fs_sensitive": [],
      "env_harvest": [],
      "net_egress": [
        "caller-supplied HTTP/HTTPS URLs"
      ],
      "proc_exec": [],
      "install_hooks": [],
      "oauth_scopes": [],
      "obfuscation": [],
      "provenance": "verified_github_actions_provenance"
    },
    "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
    "record_digest": "sha256:b52f26e0f0465861e9e7bface2324e99f8a57a29daac82b82ba02650ad5b8bf3",
    "release_signature_url": "https://threat.cafe/feed.json.sig"
  }
}

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