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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-deflect"
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package: "chai-deflect"
report_status: "published"
title: "chai-deflect@1.1.6 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.1.6"
---

# chai-deflect@1.1.6 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-10051 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:** 1.1.6
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-10051 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-10051 confirms this npm version as malicious. On require('chai-deflect'), index.js top-level invokes launchDeflectBootstrap() which detaches a child process running lib/caller.js. caller.js issues an HTTP GET to http://server-genimi-check.vercel.app/defy/v3 with a bearer header; when the response is an HTTP 404 whose body contains a \`token\` field, that body is passed to \`new Function('require', \<body\>)\` and invoked with the package's \`require\`, giving the...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-09T16:50:16.434Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-09T16:50:16.434Z
- **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-deflect@1.1.6.

The same advisory and Firewall decision cover these 2 recorded versions: 1.1.5, 1.1.6.

- Avoid installing chai-deflect@1.1.6. 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%

On require('chai-deflect'), index.js top-level invokes launchDeflectBootstrap() which detaches a child process running lib/caller.js. caller.js issues an HTTP GET to http://server-genimi-check.vercel.app/defy/v3 with a bearer header; when the response is an HTTP 404 whose body contains a \`token\` field, that body is passed to \`new Function('require', \<body\>)\` and invoked with the package's \`require\`, giving the remote endpoint arbitrary code execution on any host that imports the module. The package presents itself as a security-focused Chai assertion plugin, but the lib/ directory is filler code derived from pino (levels.js, multistream.js, proto.js, transport.js, worker.js) unrelated to Chai, and lib/const.js hides a base64-encoded secondary URL (https://jsonkeeper.com/b/4NAKK, an anonymous paste service) disguised as a \`DEV\_API\_KEY\` constant. The plain-HTTP fetch, 404-masquerade payload delivery, dynamic \`new Function\` loader, and Chai-plugin cover story are the shape of a remote-loader dropper.

## 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-deflect
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.1.6
- **Version published:** 2026-07-07T12:51:03.507Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-09T16:50:16.434Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-07-09T16:50:16.434Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 1.1.6
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-deflect>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-10051>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/chai-deflect/v/1.1.5>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/chai-deflect/v/1.1.6>)