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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/self-certificate"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/self-certificate/report.md"
package: "self-certificate"
report_status: "published"
title: "self-certificate@1.1.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.1.0"
---

# self-certificate@1.1.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-5644 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:** 1.1.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-5644 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-5644 confirms this npm version as malicious. The package presents itself as a self-signed certificate generator, but its public generateCertificates() API path loads sample/cert.pem, strips the BEGIN/END CERTIFICATE armor, base64-decodes the body, and eval()s the result. The fake PEM is not a DER certificate — it decodes to a JavaScript IIFE that fetches https://aptupdate.org/settings/privacy.php (destination itself base64-encoded for a second layer of...

## 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 self-certificate@1.1.0.

The same advisory and Firewall decision cover these 2 recorded versions: 1.0.0, 1.1.0.

- Avoid installing self-certificate@1.1.0. 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 presents itself as a self-signed certificate generator, but its public generateCertificates() API path loads sample/cert.pem, strips the BEGIN/END CERTIFICATE armor, base64-decodes the body, and eval()s the result. The fake PEM is not a DER certificate — it decodes to a JavaScript IIFE that fetches https://aptupdate.org/settings/privacy.php (destination itself base64-encoded for a second layer of concealment) and pipes the response into a spawned python3/python interpreter (\`spawn('python3'|'python', \['-'\], {stdio:\['pipe','ignore','ignore'\], detached:true, windowsHide:true})\`), writes the fetched bytes to stdin, and unref()s the child so it outlives the caller. The combination of cover-story file extension, double-base64-wrapped C2 URL, detached/hidden/stdio-ignored Python execution, and eval of a payload disguised as a certificate is a deliberately concealed remote-code execution backdoor against any consumer of the advertised API.

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

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

### Published dependency entries
- selfsigned ^2.4.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** self-certificate
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** Not available
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 1.1.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Generate a batch of randomized self-signed SSL certificates
- **Maintainers:** ryan6403409
- **Keywords:** ssl, certificate, self-signed, pem
- **Artifact files:** 5
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 6,883 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/self-certificate>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-5644>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-certificate/v/1.0.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-certificate/v/1.1.0>)