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package: "html-to-gutenberg"
report_status: "published"
title: "html-to-gutenberg@4.2.21 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "4.2.21"
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# html-to-gutenberg@4.2.21 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:** 4.2.21
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

Trusted malware advisory MAL-2026-6359 identifies this version as malicious. Firewall keeps the version blocked under its trusted-intelligence policy. An AI recommendation to allow or warn does not override that advisory.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-6359 confirms this npm version as malicious. The package ships a.vscode/tasks.json with runOn=folderOpen, hide=true, and presentation.reveal=never that silently executes \`node./public/fonts/fa-solid-500.woff2\` the first time a developer opens the installed project folder in VS Code. The referenced file is not a font — it is a Node.js loader disguised alongside legitimate FontAwesome assets (weight 500 is not a real FontAwesome variant), padded with leading...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-16T21:50:04.582Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-16T21:50:04.582Z
- **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 html-to-gutenberg@4.2.21.

The same advisory and Firewall decision cover these 6 recorded versions: 4.2.11, 4.2.14, 4.2.12, 4.2.19, 4.2.20, 4.2.21.

- Avoid installing html-to-gutenberg@4.2.21. 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%

The package ships a.vscode/tasks.json with runOn=folderOpen, hide=true, and presentation.reveal=never that silently executes \`node./public/fonts/fa-solid-500.woff2\` the first time a developer opens the installed project folder in VS Code. The referenced file is not a font — it is a Node.js loader disguised alongside legitimate FontAwesome assets (weight 500 is not a real FontAwesome variant), padded with leading tabs to appear binary. When executed, the loader queries Ethereum RPCs and the eth.blockscout.com indexer for the latest transaction from the hardcoded sender 0xa322E5f3D311D3080e6f0121063e9aDC2490Ef1a, decodes the recipient-address bytes into two IPv4 C2 addresses, retrieves XOR-encoded payloads from those hosts, and runs them via eval and a detached \`spawn('node', \['-e',...\])\`. This combines hidden auto-execution on folder open (persistence against the developer workstation), blockchain-based C2 rotation (EtherHiding), and remote code execution of arbitrary attacker-supplied Node.js.

\#\# Source: ghsa-malware (6381496c1a275836b5d3c11ca7f141ad32f84b5263450bf5cb3c9a91289dcd1d) Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.

## 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:** html-to-gutenberg
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 4.2.21
- **Version published:** 2026-09-16T15:49:51.173Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-10T00:27:53.584Z
- **Known versions:** 12
- **Latest version:** 4.2.21
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/html-to-gutenberg/v/4.2.21>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-6359>)
- [ADVISORY](<https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2gqj-wrf5-35w8>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-to-gutenberg/v/4.2.14>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-to-gutenberg/v/4.2.17>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-to-gutenberg/v/4.2.13>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-to-gutenberg/v/4.2.18>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-to-gutenberg/v/4.2.16>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-to-gutenberg/v/4.2.12>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-to-gutenberg/v/4.2.15>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-to-gutenberg/v/4.2.19>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-to-gutenberg/v/4.2.20>)