Is events-alias safe?

The package's preinstall hook ("node index.js") runs automatically on npm install and executes an exfiltration payload. index.js requires child_process, os, http, and https, collects the installer's hostname, platform, arch, home directory, user info (username/uid/gid/shell), the output of whoami/id, and cwd, then POSTs the JSON payload to a hardcoded Burp Collaborator subdomain at https://s70v1tcmg3npuykzzok5t0tdz45vtlha.oastify.com/detox56. The package name 'events-alias' mimics the ubiquitous Node core 'events' module namespace but ships only this install-time recon/exfil payload; an undeclared ~10KB binary blob named 'i' also ships in the tarball but is not referenced from the executed code. Installing this package leaks installer identity/host reconnaissance data to attacker-controlled infrastructure.

Reported by Amazon Inspector via OSV.

Malicious

15.0.1

Remove it from every machine and lockfile it reached. Treat any credentials, tokens and SSH keys present on those machines as exposed and rotate them. Check CI runners and container images that installed it.

npm uninstall events-alias

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