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faceplate-docs@99.9.9

OSV Malicious Advisory

imported 17d ago · by OpenSSF/OSV

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2024-2355 confirms this npm version as malicious. faceplate-docs@99.9.10 runs index.js from a postinstall hook that collects the installer's OS username, current working directory, hostname, and local IPv4 address and POSTs them as JSON to a hardcoded anonymous collector at https://webhook.site/f9bff304-3053-4d54-be05-86537267514a. The beacon fires automatically on `npm install` without any user interaction. The package name plus implausibly high version (99.9.10)...

Advisory

MAL-2024-2355

Source

OpenSSF Malicious Packages via OSV

Summary

Malicious code in faceplate-docs (npm)

Details

faceplate-docs@99.9.10 runs index.js from a postinstall hook that collects the installer's OS username, current working directory, hostname, and local IPv4 address and POSTs them as JSON to a hardcoded anonymous collector at https://webhook.site/f9bff304-3053-4d54-be05-86537267514a. The beacon fires automatically on `npm install` without any user interaction. The package name plus implausibly high version (99.9.10) and the recon-only payload are characteristic of a dependency-confusion probe designed to identify internal build environments that mistakenly resolve a private package name from the public registry.

Decision reason

OpenSSF Malicious Packages via OSV confirms faceplate-docs@99.9.9 as malicious (MAL-2024-2355): Malicious code in faceplate-docs (npm)

References

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Findings

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Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to faceplate-docs@99.9.9.

The same advisory and Firewall decision cover 3 recorded versions

1.0.0, 99.9.10, 99.9.9

See version security history for other recorded verdicts.

Avoid installing faceplate-docs@99.9.9. 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.

Evidence last updated: 2026-09-23 02:00:07.646Z (UTC).

Source advisory published: 2024-06-25 12:42:27.000Z (UTC).

This report uses published external intelligence. The advisory does not provide a separate source-code analysis for each listed version.