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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/merge-grid-stats/v/1.0.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/merge-grid-stats/v/1.0.0.md"
package: "merge-grid-stats"
report_status: "published"
title: "merge-grid-stats@1.0.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.0"
---

# merge-grid-stats@1.0.0 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:** 1.0.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-13484 confirms this npm version as malicious. Package advertises itself as a 2048-style grid game statistics utility, but its declared postinstall hook (\`node install-cb.js\`) executes on \`npm install\` and performs behavior unrelated to that purpose. The postinstall shells out via execSync to run \`uname -a\` and \`id\`, reads \`/proc/1/cgroup\` and \`/proc/mounts\`, inspects Linux capabilities, checks for \`/var/run/docker.sock\`, and reads the Kubernetes service-account...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-07T01:35:06.730Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-07T01:35:06.730Z
- **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%

Package advertises itself as a 2048-style grid game statistics utility, but its declared postinstall hook (\`node install-cb.js\`) executes on \`npm install\` and performs behavior unrelated to that purpose. The postinstall shells out via execSync to run \`uname -a\` and \`id\`, reads \`/proc/1/cgroup\` and \`/proc/mounts\`, inspects Linux capabilities, checks for \`/var/run/docker.sock\`, and reads the Kubernetes service-account token and namespace at \`/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/\`. It also enumerates \`/\`, \`/root\`, \`/root/projects\`, performs a host write-test, inspects network configuration, and greps the process environment for variables matching \`token|secret|key|password|db\_|redis|s3\` and related patterns. The collected data (including the k8s SA token length and env keys) is written to \`NCODE\_ESCAPE.txt\` in the current working directory and two parent directories. Author metadata is placeholder-shaped (\`merge-tools \<merge-tools@example.com\>\`) and the README/behavior mismatch indicates a cover-story shape. The install-time read of an installer-owned Kubernetes service-account token plus environment secret enumeration constitutes installer-side credential access and container-escape reconnaissance staging.

## 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:** merge-grid-stats
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Version published:** 2026-08-06T19:14:00.619Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-06T20:15:42.442Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-07T01:35:06.730Z
- **Known versions:** 7
- **Latest version:** 1.5.0
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/merge-grid-stats/v/1.0.0>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-13484>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/merge-grid-stats/v/1.2.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/merge-grid-stats/v/1.3.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/merge-grid-stats/v/1.4.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/merge-grid-stats/v/1.5.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/merge-grid-stats/v/1.1.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/merge-grid-stats/v/1.0.1>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/merge-grid-stats/v/1.0.0>)