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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-as-synced/v/7.0.9"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-as-synced/v/7.0.9.md"
package: "chai-as-synced"
report_status: "published"
title: "chai-as-synced@7.0.9 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "7.0.9"
---

# chai-as-synced@7.0.9 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:** 7.0.9
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-6497 confirms this npm version as malicious. chai-as-synced@7.0.9 impersonates the pino logger: it ships pino's README, LICENSE, docs/, index.d.ts and lib/ file layout (proto.js, levels.js, redaction.js, transport.js, worker.js, tools.js, multistream.js) with pino's keywords (\`fast\`,\`logger\`,\`stream\`,\`json\`), while package.json declares an unrelated name and author (Robert King \<hello@jsonspack.com\>, bugs URL https://jsonspack.com/issues) and a boilerplate...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-24T17:05:04.876Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-24T17:05:04.876Z
- **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%

chai-as-synced@7.0.9 impersonates the pino logger: it ships pino's README, LICENSE, docs/, index.d.ts and lib/ file layout (proto.js, levels.js, redaction.js, transport.js, worker.js, tools.js, multistream.js) with pino's keywords (\`fast\`,\`logger\`,\`stream\`,\`json\`), while package.json declares an unrelated name and author (Robert King \<hello@jsonspack.com\>, bugs URL https://jsonspack.com/issues) and a boilerplate description unrelated to logging. index.js unconditionally executes \`require('./lib/config')\` at module top level. lib/config.js is not pino's config module; it is a ~4MB single-line obfuscator.io bundle (rotated string array of ~23,868 entries, hex-escaped identifiers, control-flow flattening, nested decoder functions) that auto-runs the moment any consumer imports the package. The package also declares \`axios ^1.10.0\` as a runtime dependency although the visible wrapper (a no-op express middleware) has no HTTP use, positioning the hidden payload to perform network I/O at import. The combination of deceptive identity, hidden obfuscated payload, import-time auto-execution, and a bundled HTTP client is a covert-code-execution shape inconsistent with any legitimate logging library.

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

- **Dependencies:** 2
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 1
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 2

### Published dependency entries
- axios ^1.10.0 (Dependency)
- parse-json ^8.3.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** chai-as-synced
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 7.0.9
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-24T09:33:27.583Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-24T17:05:04.876Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 7.0.9
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** This document describes the management of vulnerabilities for the project and all modules within the organization.
- **Author:** Robert King
- **Maintainers:** matts1632
- **Keywords:** fast, logger, stream, json
- **Artifact files:** 42
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 4,340,200 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-as-synced/v/7.0.9>)
- [Issues](<https://jsonspack.com/issues>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-6497>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/chai-as-synced/v/6.0.3>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/chai-as-synced/v/7.0.9>)