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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/localization-fixer/v/1.1.1"
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package: "localization-fixer"
report_status: "published"
title: "localization-fixer@1.1.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.1.1"
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# localization-fixer@1.1.1 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:** 1.1.1
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-13631 confirms this npm version as malicious. On require of the package's main entry, a top-level \`if (isServer) syncLanguageSystem()\` fetches a JSON payload from https://api.jsonbin.io/v3/b/6a764665da38895dfec7cd5d and executes the returned \`record.value\` field as JavaScript, both by writing it to a temp file and running it via \`child\_process.fork\` and via \`new Function('require', payload)(require)\` in a separate module-load IIFE that pulls...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-08T01:20:07.616Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-08T01:20:07.616Z
- **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%

On require of the package's main entry, a top-level \`if (isServer) syncLanguageSystem()\` fetches a JSON payload from https://api.jsonbin.io/v3/b/6a764665da38895dfec7cd5d and executes the returned \`record.value\` field as JavaScript, both by writing it to a temp file and running it via \`child\_process.fork\` and via \`new Function('require', payload)(require)\` in a separate module-load IIFE that pulls https://api.jsonbin.io/v3/b/6a718a58da38895dfeb6e2ed. Both sinks pass the Node \`require\` to the constructed function, granting full Node capabilities to whatever the mutable jsonbin.io bin currently serves. Function and variable names (\`syncLanguageSystem\`, \`LANG\_SOURCE\`, \`lang\_pass\_key\`) frame the fetch-and-exec as a localization-sync feature, but the advertised purpose of the package has no need to evaluate remote bytes. The jsonbin.io bins are attacker-mutable, so the payload delivered to any installer is arbitrary and can change at any moment.

## 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:** localization-fixer
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.1.1
- **Version published:** 2026-08-07T20:57:40.863Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-08T01:20:07.616Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-08T01:20:07.616Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 1.1.1
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/localization-fixer/v/1.1.1>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-13631>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/localization-fixer/v/1.1.1>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/localization-fixer/v/1.0.1>)