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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/manager-thedate/v/1.0.15"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/manager-thedate/v/1.0.15.md"
package: "manager-thedate"
report_status: "published"
title: "manager-thedate@1.0.15 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.15"
---

# manager-thedate@1.0.15 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — The encrypted content is an inert staged payload in this version, but it cannot be audited from source.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 1.0.15
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

The package exposes an opaque encrypted payload during normal module import. No execution, network access, or installation-time mutation is established.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-31T18:59:01.161Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-31T19:00:09.627Z
- **Download time:** 502 ms
- **Static scan time:** 23 ms
- **AI review time:** 67940 ms
- **Total time:** 68466 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** The package exposes an opaque encrypted payload during normal module import. No execution, network access, or installation-time mutation is established.

- **Trigger:** A consumer imports manager-thedate.

- **Impact:** The encrypted content is an inert staged payload in this version, but it cannot be audited from source.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, index.js, apps/docs/app/theta.js, apps/docs/app/des.db

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-31T19:00:09.627Z

### AI review details

- **Review stage:** source\_first\_review

- **Mechanism:** Synchronously reads and exports an encrypted file as desKey.

- **Rationale:** The package has no direct malicious execution chain, but its public API exposes an unauditable encrypted payload on import. Treat it as an inert staged payload carrier and warn rather than block.

- **Files touched:** index.js, apps/docs/app/theta.js, apps/docs/app/des.db

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 86.0%

- **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** The public entry point exports a value loaded from an encrypted database-named file., Importing the package synchronously reads that opaque encrypted payload., The packaged payload is base64-armored OpenSSL encrypted data, so its contents cannot be source-reviewed.

- **Evidence against:** The root manifest has no preinstall, install, postinstall, or other lifecycle hook., No network, shell execution, dynamic evaluation, credential harvesting, or file-writing code was found., The encrypted payload is only read and exported; no decryption or execution path is present.

## Public findings

### 1. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 3. Low: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

### 4. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 5. High: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/manager-thedate@1.0.15/index.js>)

The public entry point exports a value loaded from an encrypted database-named file.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
export { desKey } from "./apps/docs/app/theta.js";
```

### 6. High: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** apps/docs/app/theta.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/manager-thedate@1.0.15/apps/docs/app/theta.js>)

Importing the package synchronously reads that opaque encrypted payload.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";

const desPath = fileURLToPath(new URL("./des.db", import.meta.url));

export const desKey = readFileSync(desPath, "utf8");
```

## 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:** manager-thedate
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.15
- **Version published:** 2026-08-26T15:53:06.280Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-29T19:26:09.759Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-31T19:00:09.627Z
- **Known versions:** 3
- **Latest version:** 0.0.1-security
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/manager-thedate/v/1.0.15>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-15568>)
- [ADVISORY](<https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3rww-v3p8-fw9p>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/manager-thedate/v/1.0.16>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/manager-thedate/v/1.0.15>)
