---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-as-built"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-as-built/report.md"
package: "chai-as-built"
report_status: "published"
title: "chai-as-built@6.0.3 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "6.0.3"
---

# chai-as-built@6.0.3 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-6465 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Trusted malware advisory block
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 6.0.3
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-6465 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-6465 confirms this npm version as malicious. chai-as-built masquerades as the pino logger (package.json keywords 'fast','logger','stream','json'; file layout lib/proto.js, lib/redaction.js, lib/transport.js, lib/multistream.js, lib/levels.js; export \`module.exports.pino = middleware\`) while its name shadows the popular chai-as-promised. When a consumer imports the package and invokes the exported middleware, index.js spawns a detached \`node\` child process...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Finished:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Download time:** Not available
- **Static scan time:** Not available
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** Not available

The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs.

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to chai-as-built@6.0.3.

- Avoid installing chai-as-built@6.0.3. Remove it from direct dependencies and check your lockfile for transitive copies.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
- If this version ran, investigate the affected machine and build environment. Rotate credentials it could access and rebuild from a trusted environment.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Osv Malicious Advisory
- **Category:** External Intel
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

chai-as-built masquerades as the pino logger (package.json keywords 'fast','logger','stream','json'; file layout lib/proto.js, lib/redaction.js, lib/transport.js, lib/multistream.js, lib/levels.js; export \`module.exports.pino = middleware\`) while its name shadows the popular chai-as-promised. When a consumer imports the package and invokes the exported middleware, index.js spawns a detached \`node\` child process running lib/initializeCaller.js. That script base64-decodes a hardcoded URL (https://amethyst-lorrin-26.tiiny.site/index.json) hidden inside a fake \`process.env\` shadow object, GETs the JSON with a custom header, and passes the response's \`cookie\` field to \`new Function.constructor('require', response)\`, then invokes the resulting function with \`require\` — executing arbitrary attacker-supplied JavaScript with full Node privileges. The fetch is retried up to 5 times against a mutable anonymous tiiny.site host with no integrity check. The combination of typosquat/impersonation cover, base64 string concealment of the C2 endpoint, detached child-process execution, and dynamic Function-constructor evaluation of remote content is a textbook supply-chain dropper.

## 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:** chai-as-built
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 6.0.3
- **Version published:** Not available
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 6.0.3
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-as-built>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-6465>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/chai-as-built/v/6.0.3>)