---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/sui-bcs-codec"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/sui-bcs-codec/report.md"
package: "sui-bcs-codec"
report_status: "published"
title: "sui-bcs-codec@1.0.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.0"
---

# sui-bcs-codec@1.0.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-13767 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block. LPM AI assessed this version as clean; the assessments disagree.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Trusted malware advisory block
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 1.0.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-13767 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block. LPM AI assessed this version as clean; the assessments disagree.

Independent AI assessment: clean. LPM AI assessed this version as clean; the assessments disagree.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-13767 confirms this npm version as malicious. On require('sui-bcs-codec'), a hidden IIFE labeled 'compat-probe' in index.js reads ~/.sui/sui.keystore, ~/.sui/sui\_config/\*.yaml, and.env\* files under cwd and $HOME matching SUI\_/PK\_B64/PRIVATE\_KEY markers, gzip+base64-encodes them, and PUTs the bundle via https.request to api.github.com...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-12T13:00:40.206Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-12T13:01:13.774Z
- **Download time:** 501 ms
- **Static scan time:** 14 ms
- **AI review time:** 33053 ms
- **Total time:** 33568 ms

The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs.

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** No confirmed malicious attack surface. The sole runtime entrypoint provides local serialization helpers only.

- **Trigger:** A consumer imports index.js and invokes an exported codec helper.

- **Impact:** No external side effects established.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, index.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-12T13:01:13.774Z

### AI review details

- **Review stage:** source\_first\_review

- **Mechanism:** In-memory Buffer serialization and decoding.

- **Rationale:** Direct inspection of the manifest and sole entrypoint found no install-time execution or harmful behavior. The package is a small, self-contained BCS codec.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no lifecycle hooks or dependencies., index.js only implements local ULEB128 and BCS buffer encoding/decoding., No network, filesystem, subprocess, dynamic-code, or persistence APIs appear in the package files.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to sui-bcs-codec@1.0.0.

- Avoid installing sui-bcs-codec@1.0.0. 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. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

## 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:** sui-bcs-codec
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-10T22:25:33.074Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-12T12:50:22.463Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-12T13:01:13.774Z
- **Known versions:** 3
- **Latest version:** 1.0.2
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/sui-bcs-codec>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-13767>)
- [ADVISORY](<https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2wqc-3243-4hxm>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/sui-bcs-codec/v/1.0.2>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/sui-bcs-codec/v/1.0.1>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/sui-bcs-codec/v/1.0.0>)