---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/veteran"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/veteran/report.md"
package: "veteran"
report_status: "published"
title: "veteran@1.0.5 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.5"
---

# veteran@1.0.5 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-4703 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Trusted malware advisory block
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 1.0.5
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-4703 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-4703 confirms this npm version as malicious. On \`npm install\`, the package's postinstall hook (\`install.js\`, registered via \`package.json\` line 10 \`"postinstall": "node install.js"\`) downloads a platform-specific executable from \`https://laogou.us/download/veteran/v1.0.0/veteran\_1.0.0\_\<platform\>\_\<arch\>.{tar.gz,zip}\` (install.js:13 \`const DOWNLOAD\_BASE\_URL = 'https://laogou.us/download/veteran'\`), extracts it via shell \`tar\`/\`unzip\`, \`chmod 0o755\`s it...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Finished:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **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 veteran@1.0.5.

The same advisory and Firewall decision cover these 2 recorded versions: 1.0.3, 1.0.5.

- Avoid installing veteran@1.0.5. 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%

On \`npm install\`, the package's postinstall hook (\`install.js\`, registered via \`package.json\` line 10 \`"postinstall": "node install.js"\`) downloads a platform-specific executable from \`https://laogou.us/download/veteran/v1.0.0/veteran\_1.0.0\_\<platform\>\_\<arch\>.{tar.gz,zip}\` (install.js:13 \`const DOWNLOAD\_BASE\_URL = 'https://laogou.us/download/veteran'\`), extracts it via shell \`tar\`/\`unzip\`, \`chmod 0o755\`s it (install.js:165), and immediately executes it (install.js:170 \`execSync("${BIN\_PATH}" version",...)\`). The download host \`laogou.us\` does not match the package's declared publisher/homepage (\`github.com/yongjie0203/veteran\`); the URL is not version-pinned to a hash or signature; no checksum or signature verification is performed on the fetched bytes; and source comments suggest the URL is meant to be swapped by future maintainers. The operator of \`laogou.us\` can therefore serve arbitrary native code to every installer, with the bytes executed under the installer's user on \`npm install\`. This matches the publisher-mismatched, unverified, mutable-host dropper pattern.

## 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:** veteran
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.5
- **Version published:** Not available
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Known versions:** 3
- **Latest version:** 1.0.5
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/veteran>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-4703>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/veteran/v/1.0.5>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/veteran/v/1.0.3>)