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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/bs58-88/v/6.0.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/bs58-88/v/6.0.1.md"
package: "bs58-88"
report_status: "published"
title: "bs58-88@6.0.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "6.0.1"
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# bs58-88@6.0.1 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:** 6.0.1
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-11023 confirms this npm version as malicious. Package \`bs58-88\` mimics the popular \`bs58\` base58 encoder: README, keywords, and repository URL match the real \`bs58\`, and \`index.cjs\` re-exports functionality via \`require("base65-85x")\`. The sole runtime dependency \`base65-85x\` is itself a name that resembles the legitimate \`base-x\` package...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T06:50:09.955Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T06:50:09.955Z
- **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 \`bs58-88\` mimics the popular \`bs58\` base58 encoder: README, keywords, and repository URL match the real \`bs58\`, and \`index.cjs\` re-exports functionality via \`require("base65-85x")\`. The sole runtime dependency \`base65-85x\` is itself a name that resembles the legitimate \`base-x\` package. The package under review does not contain traced installer-harm behavior (no exfiltration, no install-time fetch-and-execute, no credential access, no lifecycle scripts observed), so the concern is name-confusion plus a look-alike transitive rather than a demonstrated payload in this artifact. Whether \`base65-85x\` is itself malicious was not established here; a human reviewer should assess both the name-similarity judgment against \`bs58\`/\`base-x\` and the trust of the \`base65-85x\` dependency before publishing a public advisory.

\#\# Source: ghsa-malware (2e251130fcb84c2b20ede3b09d95f501bd3b593c051cf0f95d6beba9b11949a2) Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.

## 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:** bs58-88
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 6.0.1
- **Version published:** 2026-07-01T14:45:32.230Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-23T12:52:28.750Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-05T06:50:09.955Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 0.0.1-security
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/bs58-88/v/6.0.1>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-11023>)
- [ADVISORY](<https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qj7h-vp7h-8v85>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/bs58-88/v/6.0.1>)