---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/postcss-animate-css-vars/v/2.0.3"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/postcss-animate-css-vars/v/2.0.3.md"
package: "postcss-animate-css-vars"
report_status: "published"
title: "postcss-animate-css-vars@2.0.3 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "2.0.3"
---

# postcss-animate-css-vars@2.0.3 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:** 2.0.3
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-12418 confirms this npm version as malicious. src/normalize-options.js is heavily obfuscated (RC4-decoded string array, hex-numeric literals, rotating string-array shuffler, dead-code comparison branches) while the rest of the package (index.js, plugin.js, root.js, declarations.js) is plain readable code...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T14:00:11.823Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T14:00:11.823Z
- **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%

src/normalize-options.js is heavily obfuscated (RC4-decoded string array, hex-numeric literals, rotating string-array shuffler, dead-code comparison branches) while the rest of the package (index.js, plugin.js, root.js, declarations.js) is plain readable code. When the PostCSS plugin is instantiated (createPlugin -\> normalizeOptions), the loader assembles an HTTPS URL from obfuscated string-array entries, appends keys from the caller-supplied options.features sub-object as query parameters, fetches a JSON response, base64-decodes its \`message\` field, and executes the decoded code with \`new Function('require', code)(require)\` — arbitrary code execution in every downstream consumer's build/CI process. The loader also writes a wrapper file to the OS tmpdir (named with process.pid) containing \`require('\<pkg\>')(\<options\>); setInterval(()=\>{},2147483647);\` and spawns \`process.execPath\` detached with stdio ignored and env \`LT1\_STAGE1\_CHILD=1\`, then calls \`child.unref()\`. The detached node child re-enters the loader branch, decoupling the fetch-and-eval from the parent build and keeping it alive on a ~24.8-day interval after PostCSS exits, enabling persistent staging beyond the build window. Package metadata (name postcss-animate-css-vars, description 'PostCSS plugin for animate.css', author 'Alex Rivera \<alex@cssanimation.dev\>', homepage cssanimation.dev) presents as a legitimate PostCSS ecosystem plugin, but the shipped code contains no animate.css handling in the obfuscated loader path — the metadata is cover for the loader.

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

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

### Published dependency entries
- postcss ^8 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** postcss-animate-css-vars
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.0.3
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-07-30T18:20:16.550Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T14:00:11.823Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-05T14:00:11.823Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 2.0.3
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** PostCSS plugin for animate.css — inject CSS variables and vendor prefixes for animation properties
- **Author:** Alex Rivera
- **Maintainers:** paulmoore\_delta
- **Keywords:** postcss, postcss-plugin, css, animations, animate.css, vendor-prefixes, autoprefixer, keyframes, webkit
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=14.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 11
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 32,285 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/postcss-animate-css-vars/v/2.0.3>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/cssanimation/postcss-animate-css-vars>)
- [Homepage](<https://cssanimation.dev/postcss-animate-css-vars>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/cssanimation/postcss-animate-css-vars/issues>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-12418>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/postcss-animate-css-vars/v/2.0.3>)