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package: "chai-as-victimed"
report_status: "published"
title: "chai-as-victimed@6.1.21 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "6.1.21"
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# chai-as-victimed@6.1.21 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-5605 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:** 6.1.21
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-5605 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-5605 confirms this npm version as malicious. Package name impersonates chai-as-promised but ships a remote-code dropper. lib/caller.js base64-decodes a hardcoded URL pointing to https://api.jsonstorage.net/v1/json/2ef8c758-a96f-459e-b036-b3b90379a165/a179ea35-b962-4722-b3f1-e28316d1a44a (an attacker-controlled mutable JSON store), issues a GET with a custom \`x-secret-key: \_\` header, takes the response's \`.cookie\` field, and executes it via \`new...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Finished:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **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-victimed@6.1.21.

- Avoid installing chai-as-victimed@6.1.21. 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%

Package name impersonates chai-as-promised but ships a remote-code dropper. lib/caller.js base64-decodes a hardcoded URL pointing to https://api.jsonstorage.net/v1/json/2ef8c758-a96f-459e-b036-b3b90379a165/a179ea35-b962-4722-b3f1-e28316d1a44a (an attacker-controlled mutable JSON store), issues a GET with a custom \`x-secret-key: \_\` header, takes the response's \`.cookie\` field, and executes it via \`new Function.constructor('require', s)(require)\` — granting the fetched code full Node privileges and \`require\` access. The URL, header name, and header value are stored base64-encoded under fake keys (\`DEV\_API\_KEY\`, \`DEV\_SECRET\_KEY\`, \`DEV\_SECRET\_VALUE\`) on a shadow \`process.env\` object to evade string scans. index.js spawns \`node lib/caller.js\` detached from the package's default export, so any consumer that loads and invokes the advertised middleware triggers arbitrary remote code execution on the installer's machine, retried up to 5 times. The README/keywords cosplay a logger (pino) while the package name targets users looking for chai-as-promised — neither matches the actual behavior.

## 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-victimed
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 6.1.21
- **Version published:** Not available
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 6.1.21
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-as-victimed>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-5605>)
- [OpenSSF JSON](<https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/chai-as-victimed/MAL-2026-5605.json>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/chai-as-victimed/v/6.1.21>)