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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/ably-bulk-subscriber/v/1.0.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/ably-bulk-subscriber/v/1.0.1.md"
package: "ably-bulk-subscriber"
report_status: "published"
title: "ably-bulk-subscriber@1.0.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.1"
---

# ably-bulk-subscriber@1.0.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Exposes DEMO\_ABLY\_KEY to install logs and /tmp/dependency-confusion-proof.txt.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Credential Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 1.0.1
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

npm installation automatically executes code that reads an environment secret, logs it, and persists it in /tmp. No network transmission is implemented.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-24T00:01:58.658Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-24T00:02:25.872Z
- **Download time:** 252 ms
- **Static scan time:** 10 ms
- **AI review time:** 26951 ms
- **Total time:** 27214 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** npm installation automatically executes code that reads an environment secret, logs it, and persists it in /tmp. No network transmission is implemented.

- **Trigger:** npm postinstall

- **Impact:** Exposes DEMO\_ABLY\_KEY to install logs and /tmp/dependency-confusion-proof.txt.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, poc.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-24T00:02:25.872Z

### AI review details

- **Review stage:** source\_first\_review

- **Mechanism:** environment-secret harvesting and local disclosure

- **Attack narrative:** Installing the package invokes node poc.js through postinstall. The script reads DEMO\_ABLY\_KEY, prints the value to stdout, and writes it to a predictable /tmp file. This is concrete automatic credential exposure during installation, even though the script calls itself a proof of concept.

- **Rationale:** The package contains an automatic install hook with concrete secret disclosure and filesystem persistence. The absence of network code does not remove the install-time credential-harvesting behavior.

- **Files touched:** package.json, poc.js, /tmp/dependency-confusion-proof.txt

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 97.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** Install-time postinstall runs poc.js., poc.js reads DEMO\_ABLY\_KEY, prints its value, and writes it to /tmp.

- **Evidence against:** No network endpoint or remote payload execution is present., The behavior is labeled as a dependency-confusion PoC, but it still runs automatically at install time.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/ably-bulk-subscriber@1.0.1/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node poc.js
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 5. High: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/ably-bulk-subscriber@1.0.1/package.json>)

Install-time postinstall runs poc.js.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "postinstall": "node poc.js"
  }
```

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** ably-bulk-subscriber
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.1
- **License:** ISC
- **Version published:** 2026-08-22T12:21:56.922Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-16T14:41:47.583Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-24T00:02:25.872Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 1.0.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Author:** test
- **Keywords:** test
- **Artifact files:** 2
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 920 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/ably-bulk-subscriber/v/1.0.1>)