---
id: "MAL-2026-18491"
kind: "package"
aliases: ["MAL-2026-18491"]
title: "Malicious code in @corexium/xbails (npm)"
severity: "critical"
cvss: null
epss: null
exploited: false
status: "open"
category: "package"
products: [{"name": "@corexium/xbails", "fixed": [], "affected": "= 0.0.7", "ecosystem": "npm"}]
ecosystems: ["npm"]
tags: ["malicious", "package"]
not_affected_if: []
published_at: "2026-11-03T03:35:28+00:00"
first_seen_at: "2026-11-03T04:17:40+00:00"
updated_at: "2026-11-03T04:19:23+00:00"
sources: [{"source": "osv-malicious", "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-18491", "first_seen_at": "2026-11-03T04:17:40+00:00"}]
---

# Malicious code in @corexium/xbails (npm)

## Affected

- npm:@corexium/xbails affected = 0.0.7 fixed ?

## Timeline

- 2026-11-03T04:17:40+00:00 osv-malicious https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-18491

## From the sources

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## Source: amazon-inspector (7e3ba0508c4009825b9eb3d248094ccbf28b2a2b4dcec420d1aaa533c1594729)
package.json aliases the import name 'libsignal' to the third-party npm package '@bellaxchuu/libsignal-node' pinned only to the mutable '@latest' dist-tag: "libsignal": "npm:@bellaxchuu/libsignal-node@latest". The code imports 'libsignal' at module load time for end-to-end-encryption primitives (SessionCipher, SessionRecord, ProtocolAddress, SessionBuilder in lib/Signal/libsignal.js and lib/Signal/curve.js). Each install resolves whatever the owner of @bellaxchuu/libsignal-node has published to @latest, with no version pin, no integrity check, and no provenance tie to the upstream libsignal-node project. The maintainer of the aliased fork therefore controls arbitrary code that runs at require/import time of this package, including inside the cryptographic session-handling path.

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