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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/big-tss/v/5.0.4"
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package: "big-tss"
report_status: "published"
title: "big-tss@5.0.4 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "5.0.4"
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# big-tss@5.0.4 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 3 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Staged Payload Carrier
- **Selected version:** 5.0.4
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Importing the CommonJS entry executes an unrelated dependency and calls its API before exposing the arithmetic library. The delegated behavior is hidden by an empty catch block; no direct payload behavior is present in this package.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T18:41:45.156Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T18:42:16.228Z
- **Download time:** 509 ms
- **Static scan time:** 179 ms
- **AI review time:** 30383 ms
- **Total time:** 31072 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Importing the CommonJS entry executes an unrelated dependency and calls its API before exposing the arithmetic library. The delegated behavior is hidden by an empty catch block; no direct payload behavior is present in this package.

- **Trigger:** Consumer require/import resolving the CommonJS entry.

- **Impact:** The dependency may execute arbitrary install-time/runtime JavaScript in consuming environments.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, big.js, big.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-05T18:42:16.228Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Import-time third-party dependency bridge with suppressed failures.

- **Rationale:** The concealed, import-time dependency invocation has no arithmetic-library purpose and creates an unresolved payload-execution path. Direct harmful behavior is not present locally, so this warrants a warning rather than a definitive block.

- **Files touched:** package.json, big.js, big.mjs

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** big.js:606 imports npm-doc-dev during module initialization., big.js:607 invokes doc.from\_str() with errors silently suppressed., big.mjs:606-607 contains the same hidden dependency bridge., package.json declares npm-doc-dev despite this being a decimal library., Package metadata/source identify big.js while published name is big-tss.

- **Evidence against:** No lifecycle scripts are declared., No direct network, filesystem, shell, eval, or credential-access code was found., The remaining source implements arbitrary-precision decimal arithmetic.

## Public findings

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. High: Copied Package Dependency Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 83.0%
- **Path:** big.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/big-tss@5.0.4/big.js>)

Package metadata claims a different repository identity while copied source loads a runtime dependency bridge.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
package = big-tss; repositoryIdentity = big.js; dependency = npm-doc-dev
L605: try {
L606: const doc = require("npm-doc-dev");
L607: doc.from_str()
```

### 3. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 40.0%

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

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1

### Published dependency entries
- npm-doc-dev ^1.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** big-tss
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 5.0.4
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-05T17:10:04.938Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T18:42:16.228Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-07T15:20:05.131Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 5.0.5
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** A small, fast, easy-to-use library for arbitrary-precision decimal arithmetic
- **Author:** Michael Mclaughlin
- **Maintainers:** jpeek249
- **Keywords:** arbitrary, precision, arithmetic, big, number, decimal, float, biginteger, bigdecimal, bignumber, bigint, bignum
- **Runtime engines:** node: \*
- **Artifact files:** 5
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 61,030 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/big-tss/v/5.0.4>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/MikeMcl/big.js>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/MikeMcl/big.js#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/MikeMcl/big.js/issues>)