@qwedqwed/axios
This report shows the evidence for @qwedqwed/axios@1.16.12. 11 of 12 known versions are blocked or flagged. The newest version, 0.0.1-security, is allowed. See all versions.
OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory
imported 4mo ago · by OpenSSF/OSVOpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-4422 confirms this npm version as malicious.
Advisory
MAL-2026-4422
Source
OpenSSF Malicious Packages via OSV
Summary
Malicious code in @qwedqwed/axios (npm)
Details
Package `@qwedqwed/axios` is published under a scope that does not belong to the real axios maintainers but copies axios's README, source, homepage (`axios-http.com`), repository (`github.com/axios/axios`), and author metadata (`Matt Zabriskie`) verbatim to present itself as the genuine axios library. Its `package.json` declares two runtime dependencies that the real axios does not use: `@caspianph/storyteller@^1.1.12` and `math@^0.0.3`. The `math` name is a long-abandoned npm utility frequently abused as a dependency-confusion / typosquat target, and `@caspianph/storyteller` is an unknown package under an unrelated scope. Installing or requiring `@qwedqwed/axios` resolves and loads both of those packages into the installer's dependency graph. The axios source bytes shipped in this tarball are themselves benign (the `ping` strings flagged are inside axios's normal HTTP adapter / utility code, not an exfil path), but the package functions as a lure: the harmful surface is the silently-pulled transitive code, not this tarball's own JavaScript.
## Source: ghsa-malware (b602128ba8b351ac4d372cf5e9eb8bcbd3523788f15850574bfbb0232ad05eb5) 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.
Source & flagged code
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Findings
1 High
HighOsv Malicious Advisory
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to @qwedqwed/axios@1.16.12.
The same advisory and Firewall decision cover 11 recorded versions
1.16.12, 1.16.2, 1.16.6, 1.16.3, 1.16.4, 1.16.10, 1.16.11, 1.16.5, 1.16.7, 1.16.8, 1.16.9
The versions list below shows the verdict for each recorded version.
- Avoid installing @qwedqwed/axios@1.16.12. Remove it from direct dependencies and check your lockfile for transitive copies.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
- If this version ran, investigate the affected machine and build environment. Rotate credentials it could access and rebuild from a trusted environment.
Evidence last updated: .
Source advisory published: .
This report uses published external intelligence. The advisory does not provide a separate source-code analysis for each listed version.
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