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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/troubleshooting/v/0.1.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/troubleshooting/v/0.1.0.md"
package: "troubleshooting"
report_status: "published"
title: "troubleshooting@0.1.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.1.0"
---

# troubleshooting@0.1.0 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:** 0.1.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

Trusted malware advisory MAL-2026-17641 identifies this version as malicious. Firewall keeps the version blocked under its trusted-intelligence policy. An AI recommendation to allow or warn does not override that advisory.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-17641 confirms this npm version as malicious. troubleshooting is a dependency-confusion package: it is described as a "Compatibility shim", uses version numbers up to 99.0.1, and its README calls it an "authorized dependency-confusion test". Each listed version has a postinstall script that runs \`node beacon.cjs\` on npm install, and index.js calls the same code when the package is imported; it POSTs the hostname, install path and current working directory over...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-07T07:00:07.110Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-07T07:00:07.110Z
- **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 troubleshooting@0.1.0.

The same advisory and Firewall decision cover these 6 recorded versions: 0.1.0, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.1.0, 2.0.1, 3.0.0.

- Avoid installing troubleshooting@0.1.0. 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%

troubleshooting is a dependency-confusion package: it is described as a "Compatibility shim", uses version numbers up to 99.0.1, and its README calls it an "authorized dependency-confusion test". Each listed version has a postinstall script that runs \`node beacon.cjs\` on npm install, and index.js calls the same code when the package is imported; it POSTs the hostname, install path and current working directory over plain HTTP to \`http://185.158.107.175:8787/\_ah/dc\`, and index.js exports a Proxy that returns no-op functions so builds importing the real package keep running. The npm account xwise8887 published these 7 versions, and 6 versions of browser-metrics-plugin.contrib with the same payload, on 2026-10-07 between 00:01 and 00:07 UTC.

## 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:** troubleshooting
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.1.0
- **Version published:** 2026-10-07T00:04:12.212Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-10-07T05:03:46.360Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-07T07:00:07.110Z
- **Known versions:** 7
- **Latest version:** 2.0.1
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/troubleshooting/v/0.1.0>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17641>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/troubleshooting>)