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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/env-threads"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/env-threads/report.md"
package: "env-threads"
report_status: "published"
title: "env-threads@1.5.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.5.0"
---

# env-threads@1.5.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-3759 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:** 1.5.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-3759 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-3759 confirms this npm version as malicious. Package \`env-threads\` impersonates the legitimate \`dotenv\` package: its README, repository URL (\`git://github.com/motdotla/dotenv.git\`), homepage, description, keywords (\`dotenv\`, \`env\`, \`.env\`, \`environment\`, \`variables\`, \`config\`, \`settings\`), and public API surface (\`config\`, \`parse\`, \`populate\`) are copied from dotenv, but the package name differs...

## 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 env-threads@1.5.0.

- Avoid installing env-threads@1.5.0. 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 \`env-threads\` impersonates the legitimate \`dotenv\` package: its README, repository URL (\`git://github.com/motdotla/dotenv.git\`), homepage, description, keywords (\`dotenv\`, \`env\`, \`.env\`, \`environment\`, \`variables\`, \`config\`, \`settings\`), and public API surface (\`config\`, \`parse\`, \`populate\`) are copied from dotenv, but the package name differs. Unlike genuine dotenv — a small unobfuscated pure-JS parser — this package ships an 82 KB heavily obfuscated \`lib/main.js\` with hex-named identifiers and a string-array decoder (\`xIuLO2(0x...)\`). At module top level, the last executable statement runs \`SbEjWpp(path.join(\_\_dirname, \<decoded-filename\>))\`, which resolves to \`lib/stest.jpg\`. The \`SbEjWpp\` function calls \`fs.readFileSync\` on that file and extracts an embedded payload via steganographic decoding, then executes it through \`child\_process\`. Every consumer who adds \`env-threads\` to their dependency tree and requires it — typically expecting dotenv-like behavior — triggers arbitrary code execution from a payload hidden inside a JPEG shipped in the tarball. The combination of (1) verbatim typosquat of a top-tier npm package, (2) heavy obfuscation absent from the impersonated original, and (3) child\_process execution of steganographically-hidden bytes at require-time is unambiguous supply-chain malware.

## 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-threads
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.5.0
- **Version published:** Not available
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 1.5.0
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/env-threads>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-3759>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/env-threads/v/1.5.0>)