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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/mintel-taskbar/v/45.0.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/mintel-taskbar/v/45.0.0.md"
package: "mintel-taskbar"
report_status: "published"
title: "mintel-taskbar@45.0.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "45.0.0"
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# mintel-taskbar@45.0.0 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:** 45.0.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-15514 confirms this npm version as malicious. package.json line 11 declares the package's own name 'mintel-taskbar' as a dependency whose source is the bare HTTPS URL https://repo.securityctrl.com/mintel-taskbar, not a registry version range. On \`npm install\`, npm resolves this dependency by fetching whatever tarball that URL returns and installs it — running any lifecycle scripts inside the fetched tarball — with no version pin and no integrity check...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-28T23:40:06.269Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-28T23:40:06.269Z
- **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.json line 11 declares the package's own name 'mintel-taskbar' as a dependency whose source is the bare HTTPS URL https://repo.securityctrl.com/mintel-taskbar, not a registry version range. On \`npm install\`, npm resolves this dependency by fetching whatever tarball that URL returns and installs it — running any lifecycle scripts inside the fetched tarball — with no version pin and no integrity check. Whoever controls repo.securityctrl.com therefore controls code executed on every installer's machine. The self-referential shape (dependency key equals the package's own name) combined with an implausibly high version (45.0.0) is consistent with a dependency-confusion lure that resolves against an internal package of the same name.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1

### Published dependency entries
- mintel-taskbar https://repo.securityctrl.com/mintel-taskbar (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** mintel-taskbar
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 45.0.0
- **Version published:** 2026-03-29T05:51:28.442Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-28T23:40:06.269Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-28T23:40:06.269Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 45.0.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Placeholder package
- **Maintainers:** sine8z
- **Artifact files:** 3
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 662 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/mintel-taskbar/v/45.0.0>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-15514>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/mintel-taskbar/v/45.0.0>)