OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-13608 confirms this npm version as malicious. Package is published under the @vertexa scope but brands itself as @prisma/fetch-engine: README titled '# @prisma/fetch-engine', author 'Tim Suchanek <suchanek@prisma.io>', homepage https://www.prisma.io, bug URL github.com/prisma/prisma/issues. Its dependencies rebrand the Prisma toolchain into @vertexa/prisma-debug, @vertexa/prisma-engines-version, and @vertexa/prisma-get-platform...
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OpenSSF Malicious Packages via OSV
Summary
Malicious code in @vertexa/prisma-fetch-engine (npm)
Details
Package is published under the @vertexa scope but brands itself as @prisma/fetch-engine: README titled '# @prisma/fetch-engine', author 'Tim Suchanek <suchanek@prisma.io>', homepage https://www.prisma.io, bug URL github.com/prisma/prisma/issues. Its dependencies rebrand the Prisma toolchain into @vertexa/prisma-debug, @vertexa/prisma-engines-version, and @vertexa/prisma-get-platform. The engine download URL builder in the bundled dist/ chunks resolves the Prisma query-engine native binary to https://github.com/lh0x00/prisma/releases/download/engines-b436f5b358bf3b9d72861631111333dd40434f73/<binary> — a personal GitHub account unaffiliated with Prisma — rather than the official binaries.prisma.sh CDN. Sibling bundles ship additional variants pointing at github.com/lh0x00/@lamhieu/prisma/releases/... and github.com/lh0x00/@lamhieu/@lamhieu/prisma/releases/.... The fetched bytes are written to disk, chmod +x'd, and subsequently invoked by Prisma tooling as the query engine, so a consumer installing this package and running Prisma executes attacker-controlled native code as the database engine process. No hash or signature verification is performed on the downloaded binary, and the download host does not match the impersonated publisher.
Decision reason
OpenSSF Malicious Packages via OSV confirms @vertexa/prisma-fetch-engine@7.8.2 as malicious (MAL-2026-13608): Malicious code in @vertexa/prisma-fetch-engine (npm)