---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/keyv"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/keyv/report.md"
package: "keyv"
report_status: "published"
title: "keyv@6.0.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "6.0.0"
---

# keyv@6.0.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-11524 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:** 6.0.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-11524 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-11524 confirms this npm version as malicious. keyv@6.0.0 is a lookalike of the popular keyv key-value package but ships an attack chain absent from the real library. The package.json preinstall hook runs a heavily obfuscated setup.mjs whose strings (URLs, shell commands, platform tokens, payload filename) are all reconstructed at runtime via a rotated string-array plus RC4-style decoder. On install, setup.mjs reassembles a GitHub-releases URL for a...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-04T22:30:08.797Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-04T22:30:08.797Z
- **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 keyv@6.0.0.

- Avoid installing keyv@6.0.0. 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: Osv Malicious Advisory
- **Category:** External Intel
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

keyv@6.0.0 is a lookalike of the popular keyv key-value package but ships an attack chain absent from the real library. The package.json preinstall hook runs a heavily obfuscated setup.mjs whose strings (URLs, shell commands, platform tokens, payload filename) are all reconstructed at runtime via a rotated string-array plus RC4-style decoder. On install, setup.mjs reassembles a GitHub-releases URL for a platform-specific Bun runtime archive (bun-linux-\*, bun-darwin-\*, bun-windows-\*), downloads it, extracts it via PowerShell Expand-Archive or unzip, chmod+x's the resulting binary, and then uses execFileSync to invoke the shipped Math\_Symbol.js under that dropped Bun runtime. Math\_Symbol.js is a ~727 KB Bun-compiled bundle (// @bun @bun-cjs prelude) with obfuscated identifiers and a large constant table; it is not referenced by dist/index.mjs and only ever runs under the alien Bun runtime dropped at install. The library's advertised key-value storage has no need for a second language runtime or a hidden compiled bundle. Installing this package causes attacker-controlled code to execute on the installer's machine automatically via the npm preinstall lifecycle, using an alien-runtime dispatch that evades scanners inspecting only Node-resolved code.

## 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:** keyv
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 6.0.0
- **Version published:** 2026-08-04T09:35:00.763Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-04T22:30:08.797Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-07T02:08:36.238Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 6.1.0
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/keyv>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-11524>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/keyv/v/6.0.0>)