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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/bs58-77/v/6.0.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/bs58-77/v/6.0.1.md"
package: "bs58-77"
report_status: "published"
title: "bs58-77@6.0.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "6.0.1"
---

# bs58-77@6.0.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — No credential access, network activity, file mutation, or command execution is established.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 6.0.1
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

No confirmed attack surface. The package exports a Base58 codec and contains no install-time hook.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 98.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-14T06:19:32.859Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-14T06:20:04.769Z
- **Download time:** 506 ms
- **Static scan time:** 9 ms
- **AI review time:** 31394 ms
- **Total time:** 31910 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** No confirmed attack surface. The package exports a Base58 codec and contains no install-time hook.

- **Trigger:** Consumer imports the package.

- **Impact:** No credential access, network activity, file mutation, or command execution is established.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-14T06:20:04.769Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Constructs a Base58 encoder/decoder.

- **Rationale:** Source inspection shows a minimal codec wrapper with no malicious behavior or lifecycle execution. Static hints were consistent with the inspected source.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 98.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** Manifest exposes only CJS/ESM entrypoints and has no install lifecycle hook., Both runtime entrypoints only create and export a Base58 codec using base65-77x.

## Public findings

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 3. High: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 98.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bs58-77@6.0.1/package.json>)

Manifest exposes only CJS/ESM entrypoints and has no install lifecycle hook.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"main": "src/cjs/index.cjs",
  "module": "src/esm/index.js",
  "types": "src/cjs/index.d.ts",
  "exports": {
    ".": {
      "import": {
        "types": "./src/esm/index.d.ts",
        "default": "./src/esm/index.js"
      },
      "require": {
        "types": "./src/cjs/index.d.cts",
        "default": "./src/cjs/index.cjs"
      }
    }
  },
  "scripts": {
    "build": "npm run clean && tsc -p ./tsconfig.json && tsc -p ./tsconfig.cjs.json",
    "clean": "rimraf src",
    "gitdiff": "npm run build && git diff --exit-code",
    "postbuild": "find src/cjs -type f \\( -name \"*.js\" -o -n
```

### 4. High: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 98.0%
- **Path:** src/cjs/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bs58-77@6.0.1/src/cjs/index.cjs>)

Both runtime entrypoints only create and export a Base58 codec using base65-77x.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
var base_x_1 = __importDefault(require("base65-77x"));
var ALPHABET = '[redacted]';
exports.default = (0, base_x_1.default)(ALPHABET);
```

### 5. High: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 98.0%
- **Path:** src/esm/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bs58-77@6.0.1/src/esm/index.js>)

Both runtime entrypoints only create and export a Base58 codec using base65-77x.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
import basex from 'base65-77x';
var ALPHABET = '[redacted]';
export default basex(ALPHABET);
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 5
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1

### Published dependency entries
- base65-77x ^5.0.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** bs58-77
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 6.0.1
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-11T12:28:31.577Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-14T06:20:04.769Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-14T06:20:04.769Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 6.0.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Base 58 encoding / decoding
- **Maintainers:** smallmantis
- **Keywords:** base58, bitcoin, crypto, crytography, decode, decoding, encode, encoding, litecoin
- **Artifact files:** 7
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 5,617 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/bs58-77/v/6.0.1>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/cryptocoinjs/bs58>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/cryptocoinjs/bs58#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/cryptocoinjs/bs58/issues>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-14018>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/bs58-77>)
- [ADVISORY](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-13750>)
- [WEB](<https://pkgwarden.com/incidents/base65-npm-august-2026/>)