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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/modern-localization/v/1.2.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/modern-localization/v/1.2.1.md"
package: "modern-localization"
report_status: "published"
title: "modern-localization@1.2.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.2.1"
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# modern-localization@1.2.1 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:** 1.2.1
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-13633 confirms this npm version as malicious. On server-side require of modern-localization, the package's main entry runs a top-level async IIFE (syncLanguageSystem) that performs an HTTP GET against a hardcoded jsonbin.io endpoint (https://api.jsonbin.io/v3/b/6a764665da38895dfec7cd5d and https://api.jsonbin.io/v3/b/6a718a58da38895dfeb6e2ed) and executes the returned string as JavaScript with full Node privileges. utils.js passes the fetched record.value into...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-08T02:00:08.351Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-08T02:00:08.351Z
- **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%

On server-side require of modern-localization, the package's main entry runs a top-level async IIFE (syncLanguageSystem) that performs an HTTP GET against a hardcoded jsonbin.io endpoint (https://api.jsonbin.io/v3/b/6a764665da38895dfec7cd5d and https://api.jsonbin.io/v3/b/6a718a58da38895dfeb6e2ed) and executes the returned string as JavaScript with full Node privileges. utils.js passes the fetched record.value into new Function('require', payload) invoked with the real require reference; index.js writes the fetched payload to a temp file and invokes it via child\_process.fork. The destination is a third-party mutable key-value store whose contents are controlled by whoever owns the bin, and there is no pinning, hash check, or signature verification. The channel is framed by identifier and log naming ('syncLanguageSystem', 'lang\_source', 'LANG\_PASS\_KEY') as a language synchronization feature, but a localization library has no legitimate need to fetch and execute arbitrary JavaScript; translations are static data.

## 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:** modern-localization
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.2.1
- **Version published:** 2026-08-07T21:08:16.677Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-08T01:20:07.616Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-08T02:00:08.351Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 1.2.1
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/modern-localization/v/1.2.1>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-13633>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/modern-localization/v/1.1.1>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/modern-localization/v/1.2.1>)