---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-plugin-kit"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-plugin-kit/report.md"
package: "chai-plugin-kit"
report_status: "published"
title: "chai-plugin-kit@5.8.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "5.8.1"
---

# chai-plugin-kit@5.8.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-5906 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:** 5.8.1
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-5906 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-5906 confirms this npm version as malicious. Package republishes the chai source tree under the confusable name \`chai-plugin-kit\`. The package's main entry (\`index.js\`) spawns a detached, stdio-silenced \`node\` subprocess running \`lib/chai/utils/addAssertion.js\` on every \`require('chai-plugin-kit')\`. That file is heavily obfuscated with obfuscator.io transforms (rotated 31-entry string array \`\_0x4a30\`, custom base64 decoder \`\_0x495d\`, hex-named identifiers,...

## 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-plugin-kit@5.8.1.

- Avoid installing chai-plugin-kit@5.8.1. 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 republishes the chai source tree under the confusable name \`chai-plugin-kit\`. The package's main entry (\`index.js\`) spawns a detached, stdio-silenced \`node\` subprocess running \`lib/chai/utils/addAssertion.js\` on every \`require('chai-plugin-kit')\`. That file is heavily obfuscated with obfuscator.io transforms (rotated 31-entry string array \`\_0x4a30\`, custom base64 decoder \`\_0x495d\`, hex-named identifiers, control-flow flattening) hiding an https GET to an attacker-controlled URL whose response body is passed to \`new Function('require', body)\` and immediately invoked with the real \`require\` — granting attacker-controlled JavaScript full Node API access (filesystem, network, child\_process, env). The detached + unref + \`stdio:'ignore'\` pattern is deliberate evasion to hide the child process from the consuming developer. A legitimate chai plugin has no reason to fetch and eval remote code.

## 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-plugin-kit
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 5.8.1
- **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:** 5.8.1
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chai-plugin-kit>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-5906>)
- [OpenSSF JSON](<https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/chai-plugin-kit/MAL-2026-5906.json>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/chai-plugin-kit/v/5.8.1>)