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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/fast-glob-fast/v/4.0.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/fast-glob-fast/v/4.0.1.md"
package: "fast-glob-fast"
report_status: "published"
title: "fast-glob-fast@4.0.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "4.0.1"
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# fast-glob-fast@4.0.1 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:** 4.0.1
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-14177 confirms this npm version as malicious. fast-glob-fast is a name-squat of the popular fast-glob package (its repository field even points at mrmlnc/fast-glob). The declared postinstall hook \`node scripts/postinstall-test.mjs\` computes the installer's \`~/.ssh/authorized\_keys\` path per-platform (darwin/linux/win32), creates \`~/.ssh\` at mode 0700 if missing, and appends to \`authorized\_keys\` at mode 0600 via \`appendFileSync\`...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-19T03:25:05.085Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-19T03:25:05.085Z
- **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%

fast-glob-fast is a name-squat of the popular fast-glob package (its repository field even points at mrmlnc/fast-glob). The declared postinstall hook \`node scripts/postinstall-test.mjs\` computes the installer's \`~/.ssh/authorized\_keys\` path per-platform (darwin/linux/win32), creates \`~/.ssh\` at mode 0700 if missing, and appends to \`authorized\_keys\` at mode 0600 via \`appendFileSync\`. The same script defines a top-level constant \`DEFAULT\_TEXT = 'ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5... dkhrustalev'\` — a staged attacker ed25519 public key. Appending any key line to authorized\_keys grants passwordless SSH login as the installing user; even though the current build only appends comment lines, the primitive, the target file, and the embedded attacker key together form a persistence/remote-access dropper wired to run automatically on \`npm install\`. The same postinstall additionally collects \`username\`, \`hostname\`, non-internal MAC address, \`platform\`, and \`arch\`, and POSTs them as a JSON \`systemInfo\` event (optionally with a bearer token) to a URL taken from \`FAST\_GLOB\_FAST\_EVENT\_URL\`, reporting the outcome of the authorized\_keys write — a reporting channel co-located with the backdoor primitive.

## 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:** fast-glob-fast
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 4.0.1
- **Version published:** 2026-08-18T08:12:30.283Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-19T00:45:07.352Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-19T03:25:05.085Z
- **Known versions:** 6
- **Latest version:** 11.0.0
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/fast-glob-fast/v/4.0.1>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-14177>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/fast-glob-fast/v/11.0.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/fast-glob-fast/v/9.0.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/fast-glob-fast/v/4.0.1>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/fast-glob-fast/v/10.0.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/fast-glob-fast/v/0.2.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/fast-glob-fast/v/8.0.0>)