---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-as-map"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-as-map/report.md"
package: "chai-as-map"
report_status: "published"
title: "chai-as-map@2.3.5 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "2.3.5"
---

# chai-as-map@2.3.5 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-13702 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:** 2.3.5
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-13702 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-13702 confirms this npm version as malicious. The package presents itself as a chai-related utility (name \`chai-as-map\`, keywords \`logger\`/\`stream\`/\`json\`, description referencing vulnerability management) and bundles verbatim pino logger source under lib/ (proto.js, levels.js, redaction.js, docs/pino.md, LICENSE crediting pinojs), while the exported API in index.js is only a no-op Express middleware. index.js requires./lib/config on module load, and...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-10T13:20:05.956Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-10T13:20:05.956Z
- **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-map@2.3.5.

- Avoid installing chai-as-map@2.3.5. 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 presents itself as a chai-related utility (name \`chai-as-map\`, keywords \`logger\`/\`stream\`/\`json\`, description referencing vulnerability management) and bundles verbatim pino logger source under lib/ (proto.js, levels.js, redaction.js, docs/pino.md, LICENSE crediting pinojs), while the exported API in index.js is only a no-op Express middleware. index.js requires./lib/config on module load, and lib/config.js is a 4,083,409-byte obfuscator.io-style hex string array (~23,953 entries) with rotated decoders and control-flow flattening, containing no readable code. Loading the package therefore executes an opaque 4MB blob at import time. package.json also declares axios ^1.10.0 as a runtime dependency despite the advertised middleware performing no network I/O, aligning the module graph with a loader that reconstructs a remote destination from the obfuscated strings at runtime. The combination of typosquat naming, cover-story pino contents, an unrelated no-op public API, and a large obfuscated payload auto-executed on require is the shape of a stealer/loader delivered through name confusion.

## 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-map
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.3.5
- **Version published:** 2026-07-29T00:07:34.948Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-10T13:20:05.956Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-10T13:20:05.956Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 2.3.5
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-as-map>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-13702>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/chai-as-map/v/2.3.5>)