---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/lessload/v/1.0.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/lessload/v/1.0.1.md"
package: "lessload"
report_status: "published"
title: "lessload@1.0.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.1"
---

# lessload@1.0.1 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:** 1.0.1
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-6579 confirms this npm version as malicious. lessload@1.0.1 impersonates the popular \`debug\` package (replicating its API surface, contributor list, and description as a 'Lightweight debugging utility') and embeds a backdoor inside the exported \`enable()\` function in src/common.js. When a consumer calls \`debug.enable(namespaces)\`, the package issues an outbound HTTPS request to the hardcoded endpoint...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-20T14:50:04.761Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-20T14:50:04.761Z
- **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%

lessload@1.0.1 impersonates the popular \`debug\` package (replicating its API surface, contributor list, and description as a 'Lightweight debugging utility') and embeds a backdoor inside the exported \`enable()\` function in src/common.js. When a consumer calls \`debug.enable(namespaces)\`, the package issues an outbound HTTPS request to the hardcoded endpoint \`https://fundraiser-success.vercel.app/api/debugCheck?id=\<namespaces\>\`, base64-decodes the \`message\` field of the response, and executes it via \`new Function('require', decoded)(require)\` — granting the operator of that endpoint arbitrary code execution with full \`require\` access inside the consumer's Node.js process. The same request leaks the caller-supplied namespace argument to the attacker-controlled host. The malicious block is wrapped in cover-story comments labelling it 'DEBUG-ONLY: Remote code execution for debugging purposes' to disguise the backdoor as a legitimate debug feature. Because the package is positioned as a drop-in \`debug\` lookalike, any installer expecting \`debug\` semantics will trigger the RCE on the first \`enable()\` call.

\#\# Source: ghsa-malware (73e724a1d1066d5a5982de6963366ebef45744f1b79978652d51e734ea425bc4) 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:** lessload
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.1
- **Version published:** 2026-06-29T03:57:48.032Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-20T14:50:04.761Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-20T14:50:04.761Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 1.0.1
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/lessload/v/1.0.1>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-6579>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/lessload/v/1.0.1>)
- [ADVISORY](<https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-62jh-gmff-xfrm>)