---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-as-gateway"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-as-gateway/report.md"
package: "chai-as-gateway"
report_status: "published"
title: "chai-as-gateway@7.1.5 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "7.1.5"
---

# chai-as-gateway@7.1.5 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-14200 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:** 7.1.5
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-14200 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-14200 confirms this npm version as malicious. The package advertises itself as a logger (README and type definitions copied wholesale from pinojs/pino) but its exported middleware is a no-op that simply calls next(). index.js unconditionally executes require('./lib/config') at module top level, and lib/config.js is a ~4MB obfuscator.io-style blob (string-array rotate loader, ~24k entries, hex-escaped identifiers) whose only purpose is to run on import...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-19T03:00:06.238Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-19T03:00:06.238Z
- **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-gateway@7.1.5.

- Avoid installing chai-as-gateway@7.1.5. 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%

The package advertises itself as a logger (README and type definitions copied wholesale from pinojs/pino) but its exported middleware is a no-op that simply calls next(). index.js unconditionally executes require('./lib/config') at module top level, and lib/config.js is a ~4MB obfuscator.io-style blob (string-array rotate loader, ~24k entries, hex-escaped identifiers) whose only purpose is to run on import. The obfuscated blob contains references to child\_process exec/spawn, axios (declared as a runtime dependency in package.json), fs directory traversal via withFileTypes, the path fragment.aws, and the full base64 alphabet — the standard shape of an installer-secret harvester that walks the home directory for AWS credentials and exfiltrates over HTTP. The package name resembles unrelated popular packages, the description string ('vulnerabilities management document') does not match the pino-cloned documentation, and author metadata is a generic hello@jsonspack.com address. Requiring this package auto-executes attacker-controlled code on the installer.

## 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-gateway
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 7.1.5
- **Version published:** 2026-08-18T17:27:47.936Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-19T03:00:06.238Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-19T03:00:06.238Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 7.1.5
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-as-gateway>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-14200>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/chai-as-gateway/v/7.1.5>)