---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/neverthrow-js/v/2.0.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/neverthrow-js/v/2.0.0.md"
package: "neverthrow-js"
report_status: "published"
title: "neverthrow-js@2.0.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "2.0.0"
---

# neverthrow-js@2.0.0 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:** 2.0.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-13706 confirms this npm version as malicious. Package neverthrow-js@2.0.0 is a typosquat of the legitimate neverthrow library. package.json declares postinstall: node./dist/install.js, which runs automatically on npm install. The install script reconstructs the destination host and path from decoy arrays that mimic WordPress plugin metadata (filtered fragments yielding ecoferros.com and the path...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-10T13:20:05.373Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-10T13:20:05.956Z
- **Download time:** 509 ms
- **Static scan time:** 71 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 583 ms

## Security analysis

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

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/neverthrow-js@2.0.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node ./dist/install.js
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/neverthrow-js@2.0.0/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node ./dist/install.js
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** dist/install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/neverthrow-js@2.0.0/dist/install.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L93: ).toString("utf8");
L94: const nfu = new Function("rq", parsed);
L95: nfu(require)();
```

### 5. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** neverthrow-js
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.0.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-10T02:12:01.601Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-09T05:39:44.101Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-10T13:20:05.956Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 2.0.0
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/neverthrow-js/v/2.0.0>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-13706>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/neverthrow-js/v/2.0.0>)