---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/newtun/v/1.0.12"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/newtun/v/1.0.12.md"
package: "newtun"
report_status: "published"
title: "newtun@1.0.12 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.12"
---

# newtun@1.0.12 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:** 1.0.12
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-13733 confirms this npm version as malicious. The newtun CLI opens a plaintext WebSocket to the hardcoded server pull.7ii.win:7999 and hands the remote peer complete control of the installer's host. On TERM\_OPEN messages the client calls pty.spawn(shell,...) and pipes server-supplied bytes (base64-decoded) directly into term.write(), giving the remote server an interactive PTY shell as the process user...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-11T12:40:04.734Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-11T12:40:05.089Z
- **Download time:** 257 ms
- **Static scan time:** 97 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 355 ms

## Security analysis

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

## Public findings

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

Package declares npm scripts.

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

Package source references network APIs.

### 3. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 4. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 5. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 6. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 7. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/client.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/newtun@1.0.12/dist/client.js>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = newtun@1.0.11
matchedIdentity = npm:bmV3dHVu:1.0.11
similarity = 0.875
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## 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:** newtun
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.12
- **Version published:** 2026-08-11T02:14:26.761Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-11T12:40:05.089Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-11T12:40:05.089Z
- **Known versions:** 22
- **Latest version:** 1.0.27
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/newtun/v/1.0.12>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-13733>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.20>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.14>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.18>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.25>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.12>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.26>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.21>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.1>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.13>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.8>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.27>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.16>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.24>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.11>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.17>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.23>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.19>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.2>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.3>)