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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/core-js-gns/v/1.0.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/core-js-gns/v/1.0.0.md"
package: "core-js-gns"
report_status: "published"
title: "core-js-gns@1.0.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.0"
---

# core-js-gns@1.0.0 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:** 1.0.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-14175 confirms this npm version as malicious. The package's postinstall hook (\`package.json\` → \`node init.js\`) runs an installer-side dropper. init.js gates on developer-machine heuristics (presence of Desktop/Documents/Downloads directories) and a 24-hour skip marker, then POSTs hostname, username, platform, architecture, Node version, OS release, and package name/version to https://core-js-buffer.domaup-com.workers.dev/report...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-19T00:45:07.352Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-19T00:45:07.352Z
- **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's postinstall hook (\`package.json\` → \`node init.js\`) runs an installer-side dropper. init.js gates on developer-machine heuristics (presence of Desktop/Documents/Downloads directories) and a 24-hour skip marker, then POSTs hostname, username, platform, architecture, Node version, OS release, and package name/version to https://core-js-buffer.domaup-com.workers.dev/report. It then HTTP GETs an AES-256-GCM ciphertext from the same host with TLS verification disabled (\`rejectUnauthorized: false\`), decrypts it with a key derived from a hardcoded seed, checks the plaintext contains the cover-story string \`TelemetrySender\`, writes the result to \`~/.cache/core-js-buffer/modules/runtime.py\`, and spawns Python detached (\`stdio:'ignore'\`, \`.unref()\`) to execute it. The package name mimics the legitimate \`core-js\` library. Behavior is arbitrary remote code execution on the installer's machine, fetched from an attacker-controlled endpoint at npm install time, preceded by installer identifier exfiltration to the same endpoint.

## 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:** core-js-gns
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Version published:** 2026-08-18T17:32:02.629Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-19T00:45:07.352Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-19T00:45:07.352Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 1.0.0
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/core-js-gns/v/1.0.0>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-14175>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/core-js-gns/v/1.0.0>)