---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chalk-tempalte"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chalk-tempalte/report.md"
package: "chalk-tempalte"
report_status: "published"
title: "chalk-tempalte@1.0.20 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.20"
---

# chalk-tempalte@1.0.20 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-4517 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:** 1.0.20
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-4517 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-4517 confirms this npm version as malicious. Package name \`chalk-tempalte\` is a single-character transposition of the popular \`chalk-template\` package (a top-tier npm utility), consistent with deliberate typosquatting. The tarball ships a \`postinstall.js\` lifecycle script that imports \`child\_process\`, performs HTTP GET/POST traffic via \`http.request(...)\`, and collects host identifiers (\`hostname:\` fields appear repeatedly throughout the script at lines 20,...

## 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 chalk-tempalte@1.0.20.

The same advisory and Firewall decision cover these 6 recorded versions: 1.0.14, 1.0.15, 1.0.16, 1.0.17, 1.0.19, 1.0.20.

- Avoid installing chalk-tempalte@1.0.20. 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 \`chalk-tempalte\` is a single-character transposition of the popular \`chalk-template\` package (a top-tier npm utility), consistent with deliberate typosquatting. The tarball ships a \`postinstall.js\` lifecycle script that imports \`child\_process\`, performs HTTP GET/POST traffic via \`http.request(...)\`, and collects host identifiers (\`hostname:\` fields appear repeatedly throughout the script at lines 20, 46, 287, 409, 427). A second large file, \`phantom.js\`, contains multiple POST sinks (lines 1807, 2113, 3183, 6795, 6852). The structural shape — typosquat name + postinstall script that combines child\_process, outbound HTTP, and host/system metadata harvesting — matches the credential/host-data exfiltration pattern used by recent npm supply-chain campaigns. Installing this package causes the postinstall hook to fire automatically on \`npm install\`, transmitting installer machine data to a remote endpoint and providing a foothold for further code execution.

## 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:** chalk-tempalte
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.20
- **Version published:** Not available
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Known versions:** 6
- **Latest version:** 1.0.20
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/chalk-tempalte>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-4517>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/chalk-tempalte/v/1.0.17>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/chalk-tempalte/v/1.0.19>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/chalk-tempalte/v/1.0.16>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/chalk-tempalte/v/1.0.20>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/chalk-tempalte/v/1.0.15>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/chalk-tempalte/v/1.0.14>)