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

# chai-as-testkit@2.3.5 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:** 2.3.5
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-14371 confirms this npm version as malicious. The package is published as 'chai-as-testkit' with a description referencing vulnerability management, but the tarball ships pino's README, docs/, index.d.ts, and lib/ tree (proto, levels, transport, worker, redaction) under an unrelated author (Robert King \<hello@jsonspack.com\>, bugs.url jsonspack.com) rather than the real pinojs publisher. The shipped index.js is a synthetic stub whose only effect is \`const config...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-23T03:40:05.646Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-23T03:40:05.646Z
- **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%

The package is published as 'chai-as-testkit' with a description referencing vulnerability management, but the tarball ships pino's README, docs/, index.d.ts, and lib/ tree (proto, levels, transport, worker, redaction) under an unrelated author (Robert King \<hello@jsonspack.com\>, bugs.url jsonspack.com) rather than the real pinojs publisher. The shipped index.js is a synthetic stub whose only effect is \`const config = require('./lib/config')\`, and lib/config.js is a 4,083,409-byte single-line obfuscator.io-style bundle: a rotated hex-escaped string array of ~23,953 entries with control-flow flattening and dead-code layers (webcrack inlines 40,105 decoded strings across the decoder layers before failing to serialize). This blob runs immediately when any consumer imports the package, executing attacker-controlled code inside the developer or CI Node.js process. The pino impersonation is the social-engineering wrapper around an on-import loader; the shape (name/description/author mismatch + hollow main entry that delegates to a multi-megabyte obfuscated module at require time) is a typosquat-delivered install/import-time RCE vehicle rather than a 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-testkit
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.3.5
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-22T01:21:47.160Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-23T03:40:05.646Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-23T03:40:05.646Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 2.3.5
- **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:** harryporter
- **Keywords:** fast, logger, stream, json
- **Artifact files:** 42
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 4,352,527 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-as-testkit/v/2.3.5>)
- [Issues](<https://jsonspack.com/issues>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-14371>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/chai-as-testkit/v/2.3.5>)