{"id":"CVE-2026-48158","title":"use-context-selector is a React useContextSelector hook in userland Between 2026-05-18 15:57:18 and 2026-05-19 15:24:34, the default branch contained malicious commits 9d8481a513b7b0d1c0941b220c69b25de748641b through 6f2dae054ca014068bdb…","summary":"use-context-selector is a React useContextSelector hook in userland Between 2026-05-18 15:57:18 and 2026-05-19 15:24:34, the default branch contained malicious commits 9d8481a513b7b0d1c0941b220c69b25de748641b through 6f2dae054ca014068bdb…","severity":"critical","cvss":9.3,"cvssVector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","cwe":["CWE-506"],"vendor":"dai-shi","product":"use-context-selector","affected":["use-context-selector >= 9d8481a513b7b0d1c0941b220c69b25de748641b, <= 6f2dae054ca014068bdbbb4db96006424d674124"],"published":"2026-08-10","updated":"2026-09-09","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-09T20:55:04.493","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48158","references":[{"url":"https://github.com/dai-shi/use-context-selector/security/advisories/GHSA-7h6v-mwq6-jhm8","label":"security-advisories@github.com"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"ssvc":{"exploitation":"none","automatable":"yes","technicalImpact":"total","timestamp":"2026-08-11T01:55:43.542457Z"},"cvssSource":"cna","ingestedAt":"2026-09-13T14:41:23.499Z","epss":0.00396,"epssPercentile":0.33564,"slug":"CVE-2026-48158","body":"## Overview\n\nuse-context-selector is a React useContextSelector hook in userland Between 2026-05-18 15:57:18 and 2026-05-19 15:24:34, the default branch contained malicious commits 9d8481a513b7b0d1c0941b220c69b25de748641b through 6f2dae054ca014068bdbbb4db96006424d674124 that executed remote attacker-controlled code on developer machines during\n`npm install`. The commits were removed by force-push, but local clones, forks, and direct-SHA URLs may still contain them, and `npm install` against an affected checkout will still execute the code today. The package was not published to npm. `src/install.js` was added and wired into the `postinstall` script. It fetched a JavaScript payload from an attacker-controlled HTTPS endpoint (configurable via an environment variable), disabled TLS verification, and evaluated the response as code with `require` available. Execution was deliberately skipped on CI and cloud/serverless environments, targeting developer workstations. The second-stage payload was attacker-hosted and cannot be reconstructed. Assume full compromise of anything reachable from a Node process with the user's permissions. Those who ran `npm install` against an affected checkout on a developer machine on or after 2026-05-18 15:57:18 should treat the machine as compromised, rotate every credential the machine could reach, audit account activity** since 2026-05-18 15:57:18, and clean local clones.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"midnight","depthScore":51,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":51.2,"likelihood":0.1,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}