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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/request-easy-validator"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/request-easy-validator/report.md"
package: "request-easy-validator"
report_status: "published"
title: "request-easy-validator@1.2.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.2.1"
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# request-easy-validator@1.2.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-2798 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:** 1.2.1
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-2798 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-2798 confirms this npm version as malicious. request-easy-validator impersonates the popular \`request\` package (cloned README, bugs URL points at github.com/request/request, source is a fork of \`request\`) and ships a hidden remote-code-execution dropper. index.js exports a \`middleware\` function (also exposed as default, \`.reqValidator\`, and \`.request\`) that, on any invocation by the consumer, spawns a detached \`node lib/callers.js\` child with \`stdio: 'ignore'\`...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Finished:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Download time:** Not available
- **Static scan time:** Not available
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** Not available

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 request-easy-validator@1.2.1.

The same advisory and Firewall decision cover these 5 recorded versions: 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1.

- Avoid installing request-easy-validator@1.2.1. 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. High: Osv Malicious Advisory
- **Category:** External Intel
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

request-easy-validator impersonates the popular \`request\` package (cloned README, bugs URL points at github.com/request/request, source is a fork of \`request\`) and ships a hidden remote-code-execution dropper. index.js exports a \`middleware\` function (also exposed as default, \`.reqValidator\`, and \`.request\`) that, on any invocation by the consumer, spawns a detached \`node lib/callers.js\` child with \`stdio: 'ignore'\` and \`child.unref()\` to hide it from the parent process. lib/callers.js then issues an HTTPS GET to https://jsonkeeper.com/b/PWEH9 (an anonymous, mutable, attacker-controlled paste host) with header \`x-secret-key: \_\`, takes the \`.Cookie\` field from the response, and passes it to \`new Function.constructor('require', s)\` invoked with the live \`require\` — granting the paste-host operator arbitrary Node.js code execution with full module access on any server using this package. The payload URL is mutable, so the attacker can change the executed code at any time without republishing the package.

## 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:** request-easy-validator
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.2.1
- **Version published:** Not available
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Known versions:** 5
- **Latest version:** 1.2.1
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/request-easy-validator>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-2798>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/request-easy-validator/v/1.0.6>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/request-easy-validator/v/1.0.7>)