---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/self-sign/v/5.6.4"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/self-sign/v/5.6.4.md"
package: "self-sign"
report_status: "published"
title: "self-sign@5.6.4 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "5.6.4"
---

# self-sign@5.6.4 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:** 5.6.4
- **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:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-27T04:10:04.524Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-27T04:10:04.524Z
- **Download time:** Not available
- **Static scan time:** Not available
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** Not available

## Security analysis

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

## Public findings

### 1. High: Osv Malicious Advisory
- **Category:** External Intel
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

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. The TypeScript declaration file advertises only two parameters, concealing the sink, while the shipped README examples pass a third argument (null), normalising the call shape so downstream callers can be induced to propagate attacker-controllable certificate-shaped strings into the eval sink. A cryptographic/x509 helper has no legitimate reason to evaluate base64 content extracted from a certificate string; this pattern yields arbitrary JavaScript execution in the process of any consumer that reaches this code path with attacker-influenced input. The package.json name (\`self-sign\`) also diverges from the require identifier used in the shipped documentation (\`require('selfsign')\`), a naming inconsistency that supports confusion with the legitimate selfsigned library.

\#\# Source: ghsa-malware (b8adbf388bace10b905f93be8487c3b1866d941ecc0f968972de85f3b20f44de) Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.

## 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:** 5.6.4
- **Version published:** 2026-08-26T15:42:00.192Z
- **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/5.6.4>)
- [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>)