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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@solana-labs/web3js"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@solana-labs/web3js/report.md"
package: "@solana-labs/web3js"
report_status: "published"
title: "@solana-labs/web3js@1.0.8 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.8"
---

# @solana-labs/web3js@1.0.8 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-5788 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:** 1.0.8
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-5788 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-5788 confirms this npm version as malicious. This package impersonates the legitimate @solana/web3.js library under a confusable scope (@solana-labs/web3js). On \`npm install\`, the postinstall hook executes install.js, which loads \`os\`, \`child\_process\`, \`fs\`, and \`https\`, collects host identifiers via \`os.hostname()\` and \`os.userInfo()\` along with \`process.platform\`, probes filesystem paths via \`fs.existsSync(...)\`, and issues HTTPS POST requests carrying the...

## 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 @solana-labs/web3js@1.0.8.

- Avoid installing @solana-labs/web3js@1.0.8. 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%

This package impersonates the legitimate @solana/web3.js library under a confusable scope (@solana-labs/web3js). On \`npm install\`, the postinstall hook executes install.js, which loads \`os\`, \`child\_process\`, \`fs\`, and \`https\`, collects host identifiers via \`os.hostname()\` and \`os.userInfo()\` along with \`process.platform\`, probes filesystem paths via \`fs.existsSync(...)\`, and issues HTTPS POST requests carrying the harvested information. install.js also invokes \`execSync('powershell...')\` and \`execSync('curl...')\` to run shell commands fetched/triggered at install time. A reference to \`http://www.apple.com\` appears alongside the exfiltration code, consistent with connectivity-check or decoy behavior. The combination of name-squat against a widely used Solana library, automatic execution at install via postinstall, host enumeration, and shell execution constitutes an installer-targeted supply-chain attack.

## 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:** @solana-labs/web3js
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.8
- **Version published:** Not available
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Known versions:** 6
- **Latest version:** 1.0.8
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@solana-labs/web3js>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-5788>)
- [OpenSSF JSON](<https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/@solana-labs/web3js/MAL-2026-5788.json>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@solana-labs/web3js/v/1.0.8>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@solana-labs/web3js/v/1.0.7>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@solana-labs/web3js/v/1.0.6>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@solana-labs/web3js/v/1.0.10>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@solana-labs/web3js/v/1.0.5>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@solana-labs/web3js/v/1.0.0>)