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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-foundry/v/7.0.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-foundry/v/7.0.2.md"
package: "chai-foundry"
report_status: "published"
title: "chai-foundry@7.0.2 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "7.0.2"
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# chai-foundry@7.0.2 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:** 7.0.2
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-13356 confirms this npm version as malicious. chai-foundry@7.0.2 is a trojan package presenting itself as a chai plugin (README shows \`chai.use(chaiLeaf)\`) while its badges, documentation, and internal version metadata (\`lib/meta.js\` exports version \`9.6.0\`) are copied from the pino logger. The package's main entry \`index.js\` immediately loads \`./lib/config\`, a 3.5MB file that is heavily obfuscated with obfuscator.io-class transforms: a rotated string array of...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T17:40:08.135Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T17:40:08.135Z
- **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-foundry@7.0.2 is a trojan package presenting itself as a chai plugin (README shows \`chai.use(chaiLeaf)\`) while its badges, documentation, and internal version metadata (\`lib/meta.js\` exports version \`9.6.0\`) are copied from the pino logger. The package's main entry \`index.js\` immediately loads \`./lib/config\`, a 3.5MB file that is heavily obfuscated with obfuscator.io-class transforms: a rotated string array of 20,855 entries, two runtime decoder functions, tens of thousands of decoder-wrapper indirections, and control-flow flattening (104,934 deobfuscation changes reported by webcrack). The file begins with a top-level IIFE, so its opaque body runs automatically the moment any consumer calls \`require('chai-foundry')\`. All destinations and string constants are reconstructed at runtime, so the payload's network endpoints and behaviors are hidden from static inspection. The combination of identity impersonation, mismatched metadata, and a multi-megabyte control-flow-flattened import-time loader in a package advertised as a small chai plugin is the canonical shape of a hostile npm dropper/stealer.

## 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-foundry
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 7.0.2
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-07-19T17:22:58.312Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-20T23:54:36.205Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-05T17:40:08.135Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 7.0.3
- **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:** tawan9102
- **Keywords:** fast, logger, stream, json
- **Artifact files:** 42
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 3,823,800 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-foundry/v/7.0.2>)
- [Issues](<https://jsonspack.com/issues>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-13356>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/chai-foundry/v/7.0.3>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/chai-foundry/v/7.0.2>)