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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@apiwizards/auth-middleware"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@apiwizards/auth-middleware/report.md"
package: "@apiwizards/auth-middleware"
report_status: "published"
title: "@apiwizards/auth-middleware@5.1.2 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "5.1.2"
---

# @apiwizards/auth-middleware@5.1.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-6211 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Trusted malware advisory block
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 5.1.2
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-6211 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-6211 confirms this npm version as malicious. @apiwizards/auth-middleware@5.1.2 ships a single heavily obfuscated index.js (obfuscator.io string-array with 317 entries, RC4+base64 decoder, array-rotation self-defending wrapper) that is the package's declared main...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Finished:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Download time:** Not available
- **Static scan time:** Not available
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** Not available

The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs.

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @apiwizards/auth-middleware@5.1.2.

The same advisory and Firewall decision cover these 2 recorded versions: 4.7.0, 5.1.2.

- Avoid installing @apiwizards/auth-middleware@5.1.2. 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.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Osv Malicious Advisory
- **Category:** External Intel
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

@apiwizards/auth-middleware@5.1.2 ships a single heavily obfuscated index.js (obfuscator.io string-array with 317 entries, RC4+base64 decoder, array-rotation self-defending wrapper) that is the package's declared main. On require(), a top-level IIFE loads os/fs/child\_process/crypto/path and an HTTP client, performs an HTTPS GET against a hardcoded URL constructed from a base concatenated with the package version, splits the response on ':' into key/iv/ciphertext, AES-decrypts the body via crypto.createDecipheriv, writes the cleartext to a file under os.tmpdir() with flag 'w+', and executes it via child\_process (execSync with windowsHide and a cwd derived from process.cwd()). No hash or signature verification is performed and errors are silenced via process.on('uncaughtException'). The package advertises itself as an auth middleware but ships no module.exports, no auth/login/verify/sign symbols, and empty description/author/keywords — the entire payload is the dropper. Any consumer that installs the package and require()s it (directly or transitively) will execute attacker-controlled bytes fetched from a non-publisher endpoint.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @apiwizards/auth-middleware
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 5.1.2
- **License:** ISC
- **Version published:** Not available
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 5.1.2
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Maintainers:** apiwizards
- **Artifact files:** 2
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 23,803 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@apiwizards/auth-middleware>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-6211>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@apiwizards/auth-middleware/v/4.7.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@apiwizards/auth-middleware/v/5.1.2>)