---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chain-manager/v/1.0.10"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chain-manager/v/1.0.10.md"
package: "chain-manager"
report_status: "published"
title: "chain-manager@1.0.10 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.10"
---

# chain-manager@1.0.10 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:** 1.0.10
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-11181 confirms this npm version as malicious. The package is advertised as a docs/landing site for 'Theta Data API', but its main entry (index.js) re-exports a single value \`desKey\` sourced from apps/docs/app/theta.js, which reads apps/docs/app/des.db via readFileSync. The contents of des.db begin with \`U2FsdGVkX1...\`, the standard prefix for OpenSSL-encrypted base64 output, indicating an opaque ciphertext payload...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T06:50:09.955Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T06:50:09.955Z
- **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 advertised as a docs/landing site for 'Theta Data API', but its main entry (index.js) re-exports a single value \`desKey\` sourced from apps/docs/app/theta.js, which reads apps/docs/app/des.db via readFileSync. The contents of des.db begin with \`U2FsdGVkX1...\`, the standard prefix for OpenSSL-encrypted base64 output, indicating an opaque ciphertext payload. The package has no lifecycle scripts, no network I/O, no shell execution, and no reads of installer-side credential paths in its reachable code. Installing or importing this package on its own performs no exfiltration and executes no fetched code. The shape — a nearly empty npm package whose only export is an encrypted blob — is inert in isolation but is consistent with a staged-payload carrier intended to be decrypted and executed by a separate companion loader that holds the corresponding key. The mismatch between the README's stated docs-site purpose and the actual single-export-of-ciphertext content is a transparency concern.

\#\# Source: ghsa-malware (244bd34fb32f0ec506fd4453e6f76aa449778c670324f156ab3f2ef35c6b4de3) Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.

## 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:** chain-manager
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.10
- **Version published:** 2026-07-28T18:06:02.210Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T06:50:09.955Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-05T07:25:06.819Z
- **Known versions:** 3
- **Latest version:** 1.0.10
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chain-manager/v/1.0.10>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-11181>)
- [ADVISORY](<https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-257g-ggr2-j398>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/chain-manager/v/1.0.8>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/chain-manager/v/1.0.10>)