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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/requests-middleware"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/requests-middleware/report.md"
package: "requests-middleware"
report_status: "published"
title: "requests-middleware@1.0.2 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.2"
---

# requests-middleware@1.0.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-6096 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:** 1.0.2
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-6096 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-6096 confirms this npm version as malicious. The package masquerades as a typosquat of the legacy \`request\`/\`requests\` HTTP library, copying that project's README, dependencies, and source files verbatim, with a malicious dropper grafted on. Its sole exported function \`middleware\` (index.js:117-122) detached-spawns \`node lib/logger.js\` with \`{ detached: true, stdio: 'ignore' }\` and immediately \`unref()\`s the child, so the loader runs silently and outlives the...

## 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 requests-middleware@1.0.2.

- Avoid installing requests-middleware@1.0.2. 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%

The package masquerades as a typosquat of the legacy \`request\`/\`requests\` HTTP library, copying that project's README, dependencies, and source files verbatim, with a malicious dropper grafted on. Its sole exported function \`middleware\` (index.js:117-122) detached-spawns \`node lib/logger.js\` with \`{ detached: true, stdio: 'ignore' }\` and immediately \`unref()\`s the child, so the loader runs silently and outlives the parent process. lib/logger.js then uses axios to GET \`https://www.jsonkeeper.com/b/YL7GN\`, extracts the JS payload from the response's \`Cookie\` field, and evaluates it with \`new Function.constructor('require', s)(require)\`, retrying up to 5 times. This grants attacker-controlled JavaScript full \`require\` access in the consumer process. The remote URL is disguised in lib/logger.js:4-8 as \`DEV\_API\_KEY\` inside a fake \`process.env\`-shaped object to look like benign configuration. jsonkeeper.com is an anonymous, author-mutable paste host, so the executed bytes can change at any time without any package update. Any application that imports this package and invokes the default \`middleware\` export will execute remote attacker code.

## 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:** requests-middleware
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.2
- **Version published:** 2026-06-12T09:29:26.231Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 1.0.2
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/requests-middleware>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-6096>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/requests-middleware/v/1.0.2>)