---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-as-reformed/v/1.2.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-as-reformed/v/1.2.0.md"
package: "chai-as-reformed"
report_status: "published"
title: "chai-as-reformed@1.2.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.2.0"
---

# chai-as-reformed@1.2.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Remote operator can execute arbitrary Node.js code in the consuming application's context.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Remote Code Execution
- **Selected version:** 1.2.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Invoking the package's exported middleware silently starts a detached child process. That process downloads and executes server-controlled JavaScript.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-10T17:03:37.714Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-10T17:04:13.537Z
- **Download time:** 759 ms
- **Static scan time:** 93 ms
- **AI review time:** 34970 ms
- **Total time:** 35823 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Invoking the package's exported middleware silently starts a detached child process. That process downloads and executes server-controlled JavaScript.

- **Trigger:** Application runtime invocation of the exported middleware.

- **Impact:** Remote operator can execute arbitrary Node.js code in the consuming application's context.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, index.js, lib/caller.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-10T17:04:13.537Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Detached remote payload fetch followed by dynamic code execution.

- **Attack narrative:** At runtime, index.js launches lib/caller.js as a detached Node process. caller.js decodes a concealed remote URL, requests JSON from it, takes the cookie field as source code, constructs a function with require available, and executes it. The remote response therefore controls code running on the consumer host.

- **Rationale:** Source inspection confirms a concealed remote-response-to-Function execution chain, not merely suspicious primitives. Absence of lifecycle hooks limits the trigger but does not remove the concrete runtime RCE behavior.

- **Files touched:** index.js, lib/caller.js

- **Network endpoints:** https://api.jsonstorage.net/v1/json/2ef8c758-a96f-459e-b036-b3b90379a165/f89e8264-86c2-4684-94da-c3f82d59370f

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** package.json exposes index.js with no lifecycle hook., index.js spawns detached lib/caller.js whenever exported middleware is invoked., lib/caller.js Base64-decodes a hard-coded api.jsonstorage.net URL., lib/caller.js fetches response data.cookie and executes it via Function constructor., Remote code receives require, enabling arbitrary local module access.

- **Evidence against:** No preinstall, install, or postinstall script is declared., The remote loader is runtime-triggered rather than install-time.

## Public findings

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. High: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

### 3. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 4. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 5. Critical: Remote Response Code Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 98.0%
- **Path:** lib/caller.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/chai-as-reformed@1.2.0/lib/caller.js>)

Source passes code obtained from a remote response into a dynamic execution sink.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: 
L3: const axios = require("axios");
L4: const process = {
...
L12: (async function loadCallers(..._args) {
L13: const src = atob(process.env.DEV_API_KEY);
L14: const k = atob(process.env.DEV_SECRET_KEY);
```

### 6. High: Base64 Obscured Url
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** lib/caller.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/chai-as-reformed@1.2.0/lib/caller.js>)

Source decodes a Base64-obscured HTTP endpoint at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: 
L3: const axios = require("axios");
L4: const process = {
...
L12: (async function loadCallers(..._args) {
L13: const src = atob(process.env.DEV_API_KEY);
L14: const k = atob(process.env.DEV_SECRET_KEY);
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 8. Low: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

### 9. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 95.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

### 10. High: Known Malware Source Fingerprint Signature
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** lib/caller.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/chai-as-reformed@1.2.0/lib/caller.js>)

Source fingerprint signature matches a known malicious package signature; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = malicious_source_fingerprint_signature
signature = 306e52008bef5331
signatureType = suspicious_hashes
sourceLabel = final_verdict:malicious
matchedPackage = chai-as-inspired@2.2.4
matchedPath = index.js
matchedIdentity = npm:Y2hhaS1hcy1pbnNwaXJlZA:2.2.4
similarity = 1.000
shingleOverlap = 12
summary = package final verdict is malicious
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 4
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 4

### Published dependency entries
- axios ^1.10.0 (Dependency)
- parse-json ^8.3.0 (Dependency)
- request ^2.88.2 (Dependency)
- sqlite3 ^5.1.7 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** chai-as-reformed
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.2.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-10T17:01:27.767Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-10T17:04:13.537Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-10T17:04:13.537Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 1.2.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** This document describes the management of vulnerabilities for the project and all modules within the organization.
- **Author:** Tyler
- **Keywords:** fast, logger, stream, json
- **Artifact files:** 43
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 270,324 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-as-reformed/v/1.2.0>)
- [Issues](<https://jsonspack.com/issues>)