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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/postcss-semantic-themes/v/1.0.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/postcss-semantic-themes/v/1.0.1.md"
package: "postcss-semantic-themes"
report_status: "published"
title: "postcss-semantic-themes@1.0.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.1"
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# postcss-semantic-themes@1.0.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-18334 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Trusted malware advisory block
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 1.0.1
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-18334 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-18334 confirms this npm version as malicious. The package advertises itself as a zero-runtime CSS theming kit but on require/import executes a chain of obfuscated JavaScript modules. lib.mjs imports tokens.mjs, which top-level imports cache-warm.mjs — a ~279KB single-line file consisting of a hex-named string array of XOR/base64-encoded blobs decoded at runtime. Three additional sibling modules of the same shape (build-cache.mjs ~203KB, cache-sweep.mjs ~295KB,...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 0.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-04T15:52:30.215Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-04T15:52:32.103Z
- **Download time:** 511 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1376 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 1888 ms

The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs.

## Security analysis

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

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to postcss-semantic-themes@1.0.1.

- Avoid installing postcss-semantic-themes@1.0.1. Remove it from direct dependencies and check your lockfile for transitive copies.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
- If this version ran, investigate the affected machine and build environment. Rotate credentials it could access and rebuild from a trusted environment.

## Public findings

### 1. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

### 2. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** lib.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/postcss-semantic-themes@1.0.1/lib.cjs>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: 'use strict';
L5: const upstream = require('./vendor/tailwindcss/dist/lib.js');
L6:
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 4. High: Obfuscated
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package source appears deliberately obfuscated.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 6. Low: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

### 7. Medium: Ships Native Binary
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** native/linux/x64/cache-probe.node
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/postcss-semantic-themes@1.0.1/native/linux/x64/cache-probe.node>)

Package ships native binary artifacts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = native/linux/x64/cache-probe.node
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 311880
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 8. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

### 9. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** base.css
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/postcss-semantic-themes@1.0.1/base.css>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```css
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 6
```

## 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:** postcss-semantic-themes
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.1
- **Version published:** 2026-10-25T12:56:26.130Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-10-26T16:19:27.181Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T15:52:32.110Z
- **Known versions:** 4
- **Latest version:** 0.0.1-security
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/postcss-semantic-themes/v/1.0.1>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-18334>)
- [ADVISORY](<https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fh55-fq5h-h352>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/postcss-semantic-themes/v/1.0.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/postcss-semantic-themes/v/1.0.1>)
