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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@workoscalif/sudoku/v/1.3.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@workoscalif/sudoku/v/1.3.0.md"
package: "@workoscalif/sudoku"
report_status: "published"
title: "@workoscalif/sudoku@1.3.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.3.0"
---

# @workoscalif/sudoku@1.3.0 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:** 1.3.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-13366 confirms this npm version as malicious. package.json declares a postinstall script that spawns vendor/gridgen-linux-x64 during \`npm install\`. The README describes this file as a ~34 kB static ELF built from a ~150-line C sudoku generator (native/gridgen.c), but the shipped artifact is a ~33.6 MB Go runtime executable (strings include \`runtime.\`, \`reflect.\`, \`GODEBUG\`, \`chacha8\`, \`godebugs.Info\`) — roughly 1000x the advertised size and a different...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-14T15:45:05.319Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-14T15:45:06.167Z
- **Download time:** 765 ms
- **Static scan time:** 83 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 848 ms

## Security analysis

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

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@workoscalif/sudoku@1.3.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.mjs
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@workoscalif/sudoku@1.3.0/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.mjs
```

### 3. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

### 4. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 5. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 6. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. Medium: Ships Native Binary
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** vendor/gridgen-linux-x64
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@workoscalif/sudoku@1.3.0/vendor/gridgen-linux-x64>)

Package ships native binary artifacts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = vendor/gridgen-linux-x64
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 33648788
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 8. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @workoscalif/sudoku
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.3.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-05T10:51:48.011Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T19:30:07.960Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-14T15:45:06.167Z
- **Known versions:** 6
- **Latest version:** 1.4.0
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@workoscalif/sudoku/v/1.3.0>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-13366>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@workoscalif/sudoku/v/1.4.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@workoscalif/sudoku/v/1.3.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@workoscalif/sudoku/v/1.5.1>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@workoscalif/sudoku/v/1.5.2>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@workoscalif/sudoku/v/1.5.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@workoscalif/sudoku/v/1.2.0>)