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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/mini-hardhat/v/1.1.4"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/mini-hardhat/v/1.1.4.md"
package: "mini-hardhat"
report_status: "published"
title: "mini-hardhat@1.1.4 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.1.4"
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# mini-hardhat@1.1.4 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:** 1.1.4
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

Trusted malware advisory MAL-2026-17236 identifies this version as malicious. Firewall keeps the version blocked under its trusted-intelligence policy. An AI recommendation to allow or warn does not override that advisory.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-17236 confirms this npm version as malicious. mini-hardhat@1.1.4 presents itself as a pino-like JSON logger, but its main entry exports a middleware factory that, on instantiation, spawns lib/caller.js as a detached, stdio-ignored, unref'd child process so execution survives the parent. lib/caller.js base64-decodes a hardcoded URL (stored under decoy keys named DEV\_API\_KEY/DEV\_SECRET\_KEY/DEV\_SECRET\_VALUE) resolving to...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-28T22:50:05.310Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-28T22:50:05.310Z
- **Download time:** Not available
- **Static scan time:** Not available
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** Not available

The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs.

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to mini-hardhat@1.1.4.

- Avoid installing mini-hardhat@1.1.4. Remove it from direct dependencies and check your lockfile for transitive copies.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
- If this version ran, investigate the affected machine and build environment. Rotate credentials it could access and rebuild from a trusted environment.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Osv Malicious Advisory
- **Category:** External Intel
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

mini-hardhat@1.1.4 presents itself as a pino-like JSON logger, but its main entry exports a middleware factory that, on instantiation, spawns lib/caller.js as a detached, stdio-ignored, unref'd child process so execution survives the parent. lib/caller.js base64-decodes a hardcoded URL (stored under decoy keys named DEV\_API\_KEY/DEV\_SECRET\_KEY/DEV\_SECRET\_VALUE) resolving to https://ipinfo-encrypted-v1.vercel.app/api/auth/f1f097d93c318c92f0c5, POSTs to it via axios, and passes the response body directly to new Function.constructor("require", s)(require), granting the remote endpoint arbitrary code execution inside the consumer's Node.js process with full require access. The fetch is retried up to 5 times. The declared purpose (logger/vulnerability-management document) does not match the shipped code, the destination URL and headers are base64-obfuscated, and the delivery is engineered to persist beyond the parent process — the shape of an intentional remote-code-execution dropper.

## 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:** mini-hardhat
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.1.4
- **Version published:** 2026-09-28T17:20:08.876Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-28T22:50:05.310Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-28T22:50:05.310Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 1.1.4
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/mini-hardhat/v/1.1.4>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17236>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/mini-hardhat/v/1.1.4>)