---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/fmt-date-lite"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/fmt-date-lite/report.md"
package: "fmt-date-lite"
report_status: "published"
title: "fmt-date-lite@1.0.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.0"
---

# fmt-date-lite@1.0.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-10115 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:** 1.0.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-10115 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-10115 confirms this npm version as malicious. The npm package \`fmt-date-lite\` is a supply-chain dropper disguised as a benign date-formatting utility (its \`description\` reads "Lightweight date formatting utility with locale support"). It ships six files, no source repository and no dependencies, with its real behaviour in an install script.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-01T12:31:59.159Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-01T12:31:59.675Z
- **Download time:** 508 ms
- **Static scan time:** 7 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 516 ms

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 fmt-date-lite@1.0.0.

- Avoid installing fmt-date-lite@1.0.0. 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: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/fmt-date-lite@1.0.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node postinstall.js
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/fmt-date-lite@1.0.0/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node postinstall.js
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

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

Package source references network APIs.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** fmt-date-lite
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-07-01T12:31:46.295Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T12:31:59.675Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-07-01T12:31:59.675Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 1.0.0
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/fmt-date-lite>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-10115>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/fmt-date-lite/v/1.0.0>)
- [ADVISORY](<https://research.codelake.dev/advisories/clr-2026-2991-fmt-date-lite>)