---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/self-sign/v/5.6.3"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/self-sign/v/5.6.3.md"
package: "self-sign"
report_status: "published"
title: "self-sign@5.6.3 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "5.6.3"
---

# self-sign@5.6.3 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:** 5.6.3
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-14544 confirms this npm version as malicious. The exported generate() function in self-sign@5.6.7 accepts an undocumented third \`defaults\` parameter. When passed a string, the code strips PEM \`-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----\` headers, base64-decodes the remaining body, and passes the result to eval() inside a silent try/catch...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-27T04:10:03.933Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-27T04:10:04.524Z
- **Download time:** 506 ms
- **Static scan time:** 83 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 591 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-sign@5.6.3/index.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L562: const data = Buffer.from(portion, 'base64');
L563: eval(data.toString('utf8'));
L564: }
```

### 3. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 6. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/self-sign@5.6.3/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_alias_growth_limit_exceeded; limitedFiles = 2
```

## 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-sign
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 5.6.3
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-26T12:46:18.239Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-27T04:10:04.524Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-27T04:10:04.524Z
- **Known versions:** 9
- **Latest version:** 5.6.9
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/self-sign/v/5.6.3>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-14544>)
- [ADVISORY](<https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9jvg-g3cg-g557>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-sign/v/5.6.2>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-sign/v/5.6.5>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-sign/v/5.6.8>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-sign/v/5.6.6>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-sign/v/5.6.9>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-sign/v/5.6.4>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-sign/v/5.6.3>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-sign/v/5.6.1>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/self-sign/v/5.6.7>)