148 npm Packages Disguised as Student Proxies Turned Browsers Into a DDoS Botnet

A campaign of 148 npm packages disguised as student web proxies turned visitors' browsers into a distributed denial-of-service botnet for roughly two weeks in May, according to new research from JFrog. The packages did not go after the developers who might install them. The operators used the...

EUVD-2026-43537

OpenClaw before 2026.6.6 contains a policy bypass vulnerability in browser CDP discovery that accepts blocked WebSocket URLs. Attackers with lower-trust access can reach network destinations that should have been blocked by OpenClaw policy when the affected feature is enabled...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-12478

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The fix for CVE-2026-0716 commit 6ff7ef0, libsoup 3.6.6 placed the integer overflow guard inside the if masked block, leaving unmasked server-to-client frames...

PT-2026-58723

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libsoup affected versions not specified Description An issue exists in the WebSocket frame parsing implementation where the library fails to validate length rules defined in RFC 6455 §5.5. This standard requires that all WebSocket control...

PT-2026-57999

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libsoup versions prior to 3.6.6 Description An integer overflow guard was incorrectly placed within a conditional block, leaving unmasked server-to-client frames unprotected. A malicious WebSocket server can send a crafted unmasked frame with ...

CVE-2026-62197

OpenClaw before 2026.6.6 contains a policy bypass vulnerability in browser CDP discovery that accepts blocked WebSocket URLs. Attackers with lower-trust access can reach network destinations that should have been blocked by OpenClaw policy when the affected feature is enabled...

CVE-2026-62197

CVE-2026-62197: OpenClaw before 2026.6.6 has a policy bypass in browser CDP discovery that accepts blocked WebSocket URLs. Attackers with lower-trust access can reach network destinations that the OpenClaw policy should block when the affected feature is enabled. Affected product/version: OpenCla...

CVE-2026-62197 OpenClaw < 2026.6.6 Policy Bypass via CDP Discovery

OpenClaw before 2026.6.6 contains a policy bypass vulnerability in browser CDP discovery that accepts blocked WebSocket URLs. Attackers with lower-trust access can reach network destinations that should have been blocked by OpenClaw policy when the affected feature is enabled...

Malicious code in permcarmserver (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 4e70168ba32f543c08a0c98b81e648d09e9793bcc533a34c2f0ce9ca7a14536e On require, index.js spawns a worker that uses koffi FFI to load a file named index.html and invoke its exported vserverstart. Despite the extension,...

MAL-2026-10488 Malicious code in permcarmserver (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 4e70168ba32f543c08a0c98b81e648d09e9793bcc533a34c2f0ce9ca7a14536e On require, index.js spawns a worker that uses koffi FFI to load a file named index.html and invoke its exported vserverstart. Despite the extension,...

Malicious code in permcserver (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector cf9fcdfd2e40ddb8c0aef4fa0fb93f2d0bcf3b0c00104057076f8013a70812d6 The package's main index.js is a 10-line FFI shim that spawns a worker, dlopens the bundled lib-linux.so via koffi, and immediately invokes the nativ...

Malicious code in @sheltr_/agent (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 0ecc4dcd6d76f100601f8b37a6b9c3aab899770ab361f2714f9193a2f8d0db78 When the package's bin entry is run, it spawns an interactive PTY shell using $SHELL with the user's full process environment and HOME as the working...

MAL-2026-10469 Malicious code in @sheltr_/agent (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 0ecc4dcd6d76f100601f8b37a6b9c3aab899770ab361f2714f9193a2f8d0db78 When the package's bin entry is run, it spawns an interactive PTY shell using $SHELL with the user's full process environment and HOME as the working...

Malicious code in @spzhongwin/skill-logger-plugin (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 970980f38a6389d5b622ca41ba3b418f1538b2a38f595536c97acb934012b8b9 The package advertises itself as a skill usage/error logger but, when activated via the openclaw gatewaystart hook, opens a persistent WebSocket to a...

MAL-2026-10456 Malicious code in @spzhongwin/skill-logger-plugin (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 970980f38a6389d5b622ca41ba3b418f1538b2a38f595536c97acb934012b8b9 The package advertises itself as a skill usage/error logger but, when activated via the openclaw gatewaystart hook, opens a persistent WebSocket to a...

PYSEC-2026-3033 python-engineio has possible denial of service due to maximum payload size sometimes not being enforced

Impact There are two specific configurations of the python-engineio server in which the size of incoming messages is not checked before the messages are loaded into memory. An attacker can take advantage of these to cause unnecessary memory allocations in the python-engineio server. The two cases...

PYSEC-2026-2878 Pipecat: Telephony WebSocket `/ws` Unauthenticated Call-Control Abuse via Attacker-Supplied Call SID

Development Runner Telephony WebSocket /ws Unauthenticated Call-Control Abuse via Attacker-Supplied Call SID Summary The pipecat development runner registers a /ws WebSocket endpoint for telephony testing that accepts connections without any authentication. An unauthenticated remote attacker who...

PYSEC-2026-2510 Hermes Agent contains a DNS rebinding vulnerability in WebSocket endpoints that allows remote attackers to bypass Host and Origin validation

Hermes Agent before 0.16.0 contains a DNS rebinding vulnerability in WebSocket endpoints that allows remote attackers to bypass Host and Origin validation. FastAPI HTTP middleware does not execute for WebSocket upgrade requests on /api/pty, /api/ws, /api/pub, and /api/events endpoints, enabling...

PYSEC-2026-3388 Tornado has out-of-bounds memory access via C extension

Summary Tornado's optional native extension tornado.speedups implements websocketmask without validating that the mask argument is exactly four bytes long. The C function reads four bytes from mask unconditionally, even when Python passes a shorter byte string. This can read beyond the provided...

PYSEC-2026-2503 Granian vulnerable to unauthenticated DoS via WebSocket subprotocol header panic

Summary Granian aborts a worker process when an unauthenticated client sends a WebSocket upgrade request whose Sec-WebSocket-Protocol header contains non-ASCII bytes. The crash happens in Granian's WebSocket scope construction path, before the ASGI application is invoked. This is a single-request...