CWE-506 Embedded Malicious Code

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The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.

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vulnerabilities (161)

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IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2026-74232UScritical9.8OT critical—
Zbtlink L3_V2_8 firmware 3.0.0.4.528, Zbtlink WE826-T2 firmware 19.1101, Zbtlink ZBT-7628 firmware 1.0.0.2.007, Zbtlink ZBT-ZBT7621 firmware 1.0.0.3.001, MoreQuick MQAC-7620, MQAC-…
CVE-2026-48027UScritical9.8OT criticalKEV
Nx Console is the user interface for Nx & Lerna. On 19 May 2026, a malicious version of Nx Console, 18.95.0, was published at 12:30 PM UTC and removed soon after at 12:48 PM UTC, l…
CVE-2026-8398US—OT criticalKEV
A supply chain attack compromised the official installation packages of DAEMON Tools Lite (Windows versions 12.5.0.2421 through 12.5.0.2434), distributed from the legitimate websit…
CVE-2026-45321US—OT criticalKEV
On 2026-05-11, between approximately 19:20 and 19:26 UTC, 84 malicious versions across 42 @tanstack/* packages were published to the npm registry. The publishes were authenticated…
CVE-2026-33634UShigh8.8OT criticalKEV
Trivy is a security scanner. On March 19, 2026, a threat actor used compromised credentials to publish a malicious Trivy v0.69.4 release, force-push 76 of 77 version tags in `aquas…
CVE-2025-59374UScritical9.8OT criticalKEV
"UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED" Certain versions of the ASUS Live Update client were distributed with unauthorized modifications introduced through a supply chain compromise. The modif…
CVE-2025-54313US—OT criticalKEV
eslint-config-prettier 8.10.1, 9.1.1, 10.1.6, and 10.1.7 has embedded malicious code for a supply chain compromise. Installing an affected package executes an install.js file that…
CVE-2025-30154UShigh8.6OT criticalKEV
reviewdog/action-setup is a GitHub action that installs reviewdog. reviewdog/action-setup@v1 was compromised March 11, 2025, between 18:42 and 20:31 UTC, with malicious code added…
CVE-2025-30066UShigh8.6OT criticalKEV
tj-actions changed-files before 46 allows remote attackers to discover secrets by reading actions logs. (The tags v1 through v45.0.7 were affected on 2025-03-14 and 2025-03-15 beca…
CVE-2024-4978UShigh8.4OT criticalKEV
Justice AV Solutions Viewer Setup 8.3.7.250-1 contains a malicious binary when executed and is signed with an unexpected authenticode signature. A remote, privileged threat actor m…
CVE-2024-3094UScritical10.0Exploit
Malicious code was discovered in the upstream tarballs of xz, starting with version 5.6.0. Through a series of complex obfuscations, the liblzma build process extracts a prebuilt…
CVE-2022-1609UScritical9.8Exploit
The School Management WordPress plugin before 9.9.7 contains an obfuscated backdoor injected in it's license checking code that registers a REST API handler, allowing an unauthenti…
CVE-1999-0661UShigh10.0Exploit
A system is running a version of software that was replaced with a Trojan Horse at one of its distribution points, such as (1) TCP Wrappers 7.6, (2) util-linux 2.9g, (3) wuarchive…
CVE-2022-23812UScritical9.8Exploit
This affects the package node-ipc from 10.1.1 and before 10.1.3. This package contains malicious code, that targets users with IP located in Russia or Belarus, and overwrites their…
CVE-2013-3528UShigh7.5Exploit
Unspecified vulnerability in the update check in Vanilla Forums before 2.0.18.8 has unspecified impact and remote attack vectors, related to "object injection."
CVE-2009-1240UShigh10.0—
Unspecified vulnerability in the IBM Proventia engine 4.9.0.0.44 20081231, as used in IBM Proventia Network Mail Security System, Network Mail Security System Virtual Appliance, De…
CVE-2002-1840UShigh10.0—
irssi IRC client 0.8.4, when downloaded after 14-March-2002, could contain a backdoor in the configuration file, which allows remote attackers to access the system.
CVE-2022-42042UScritical9.8—
The d8s-networking package for Python, as distributed on PyPI, included a potential code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party. The backdoor is the democritus-hashes package…
CVE-2022-42041UScritical9.8—
The d8s-file-system package for Python, as distributed on PyPI, included a potential code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party. The backdoor is the democritus-hashes packag…
CVE-2022-34981UScritical9.8—
The PyCrowdTangle package in PyPI before v0.0.1 included a code execution backdoor inserted by a third party.
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