Summary
Prettier eslint-config-prettier contains an embedded malicious code vulnerability. Installing an affected package executes an install.js file that launches the node-gyp.dll malware on Windows.
- Vendor
- Prettier
- Product
- eslint-config-prettier
- Added to KEV
- Jan 22, 2026
- Remediation due
- Feb 12, 2026 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- Weakness
- CWE-506
- EPSS
- 5.1% as of Nov 12
In the news
- No Asia-Pacific article names this CVE yet.
Linked
Actors named alongside it:
none
Incidents exploiting it:
- none recorded
References