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Incident detail

criticalnpm·malware·osv

Malicious code in stella-coder (npm)

stella-coder

Risk score

92

AI summary

Indexed incident for stella-coder (npm).

Description

stella-cli/telegram-bot.mjs hardcodes a Telegram bot API token (BOT_TOKEN = "8923551485:AAFw4wG8ZwOtp5rzFsnguxhu4AH-2_ebSi0") that is controlled by the package author. When the user invokes the /tg CLI command, the package starts a Telegram bot on the installer's machine that receives messages over api.telegram.org and passes them into execSync(node stella-cli/index.mjs -p "${text}"), invoking a shell-capable AI agent CLI with attacker-supplied input. Because the messaging channel is bound to a token the author retains, the author observes all bot traffic — including the 4-digit admin authorization code exchanged over that same channel — and can replay it to reach the command-execution path on any installer that enables /tg. telegram-bot.mjs additionally sends os.hostname() and os.userInfo().username to the same author-controlled bot. A hardcoded PREMIUM_CODE = "10102013" acts as a universal activation key that unlocks the remote-control feature-set without payment. package.json sets "main": "stella-cli/index.mjs", whose top-level executes main() and starts the interactive CLI on require/import, extending the reach of the /tg surface beyond the bin entry. There are no install lifecycle hooks; the backdoor fires when the user runs the CLI (or a consumer imports the module) and invokes /tg.

Technical details

Affected versions

=5.0.0=5.1.0=5.1.1=4.0.0=5.0.1=5.1.2=5.2.0

Indicators

  • affected version=5.0.075%
  • affected version=5.1.075%
  • affected version=5.1.175%
  • affected version=4.0.075%
  • affected version=5.0.175%
  • affected version=5.1.275%
  • affected version=5.2.075%

Timeline

  1. Advisory published
  2. Indexed by ThreatPkg

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