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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/log-taker/v/0.0.8"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/log-taker/v/0.0.8.md"
package: "log-taker"
report_status: "published"
title: "log-taker@0.0.8 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.0.8"
---

# log-taker@0.0.8 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:** 0.0.8
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-6338 confirms this npm version as malicious. index.js imports child\_process and invokes execSync with bash and zsh shell strings (around lines 315 and 331). The pattern of spawning interactive shells from a package named 'log-taker' is unusual and warrants human review, but the available evidence does not include the literal command strings, network destinations, credential reads, or lifecycle-hook bindings needed to confirm an installer-side attack...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T06:50:09.955Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T06:50:09.955Z
- **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%

index.js imports child\_process and invokes execSync with bash and zsh shell strings (around lines 315 and 331). The pattern of spawning interactive shells from a package named 'log-taker' is unusual and warrants human review, but the available evidence does not include the literal command strings, network destinations, credential reads, or lifecycle-hook bindings needed to confirm an installer-side attack. There is no traced exfiltration endpoint, no read of installer-secret paths, and no confirmed install-time auto-execution path. Disposition is review pending verification of where these shell calls fire (lifecycle hook vs. user-invoked CLI) and what commands they execute.

\#\# Source: ghsa-malware (da82bef02d4ac93d8e8ba83f8e45e2044f4137588d99a272f064fb5d1ca3bfe0) 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:** log-taker
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.0.8
- **Version published:** 2026-06-19T06:47:10.246Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-05T06:50:09.955Z
- **Known versions:** 4
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/log-taker/v/0.0.8>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-6338>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/log-taker/v/0.1.0>)
- [ADVISORY](<https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x8v5-5q93-844w>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/log-taker/v/0.0.7>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/log-taker/v/0.0.8>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/log-taker/v/0.0.9>)