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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@workoscalif/sudoku/v/1.5.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@workoscalif/sudoku/v/1.5.1.md"
package: "@workoscalif/sudoku"
report_status: "published"
title: "@workoscalif/sudoku@1.5.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.5.1"
---

# @workoscalif/sudoku@1.5.1 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:** 1.5.1
- **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:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-14T15:45:06.167Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-14T15:45:06.167Z
- **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%

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 language/toolchain than the shipped source. The binary contains \`/proc/self/cgroup\` and \`/proc/self/mountinfo\` strings, which are container/CI environment fingerprints unrelated to generating sudoku puzzles. The postinstall short-circuits unless \`process.platform === 'linux' && process.arch === 'x64'\` and honors \`SUDOKU\_SKIP\_POSTINSTALL=1\`, so developer laptops (macOS/Windows) and reviewers using \`--ignore-scripts\` do not execute the binary. The npm scope \`@workoscalif\` visually resembles the WorkOS authentication vendor while the package is an unrelated personal project (author \`anas cherni\`, homepage github.com/anascherni/sudoku), increasing the likelihood a developer installs it believing it is vendor-endorsed. The combination of a documentation/contents mismatch, a large opaque binary from an unrelated toolchain, Linux-x64/CI gating, container fingerprinting strings, and a scope resembling a known vendor is the opaque-native-binary dropper shape rather than the advertised C sudoku helper.

## 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:** @workoscalif/sudoku
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.5.1
- **Version published:** Not available
- **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/1.5.1>)
- [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>)