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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/express-dever/v/5.1.8"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/express-dever/v/5.1.8.md"
package: "express-dever"
report_status: "published"
title: "express-dever@5.1.8 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "5.1.8"
---

# express-dever@5.1.8 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:** 5.1.8
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-13368 confirms this npm version as malicious. express-dever@5.1.8 registers \`postinstall: node index.js\` in package.json, and index.js is heavily obfuscated (obfuscator.io-style rotated string array with RC4/base64 decoders, hex-numeric constant folding, \`\_0x\` variable naming, control-flow flattening). Decoded, the script requires axios/fs/path/child\_process/os, constructs a dotted-quad host string at runtime via repeated \`.concat(x, '.')\` calls, performs...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T19:35:05.999Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T19:35:05.999Z
- **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%

express-dever@5.1.8 registers \`postinstall: node index.js\` in package.json, and index.js is heavily obfuscated (obfuscator.io-style rotated string array with RC4/base64 decoders, hex-numeric constant folding, \`\_0x\` variable naming, control-flow flattening). Decoded, the script requires axios/fs/path/child\_process/os, constructs a dotted-quad host string at runtime via repeated \`.concat(x, '.')\` calls, performs \`axios.get(\<url\>)\`, writes the response body to a file under \`process.cwd()\` with \`{flag:'w+'}\`, and spawns the written file via child\_process with \`windowsHide:true\`. This is a download-and-execute dropper that fires automatically on \`npm install\`. Corroborating signals: package.json declares a self-referential floating dependency (\`express-dever: ^5.1.7\`), author and description fields are blank, and the README instructs readers to sandbox the file — consistent with a throwaway malicious upload rather than a legitimate library.

## 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:** express-dever
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 5.1.8
- **Version published:** 2026-07-24T08:35:07.768Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T19:35:05.999Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-05T19:35:05.999Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 5.1.8
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/express-dever/v/5.1.8>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-13368>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-dever/v/5.1.8>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-dever/v/5.1.7>)