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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/zod-pino"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/zod-pino/report.md"
package: "zod-pino"
report_status: "published"
title: "zod-pino@1.0.127 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.127"
---

# zod-pino@1.0.127 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-6273 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:** 1.0.127
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-6273 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-6273 confirms this npm version as malicious. The package is published under a name suggesting a Pino logger integration for Zod, but the tarball contents do not match that purpose and exhibit multiple installer-harm fingerprints:

## 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 zod-pino@1.0.127.

The same advisory and Firewall decision cover these 6 recorded versions: 1.0.122, 1.0.123, 1.0.124, 1.0.126, 1.0.127, 1.0.125.

- Avoid installing zod-pino@1.0.127. 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%

The package is published under a name suggesting a Pino logger integration for Zod, but the tarball contents do not match that purpose and exhibit multiple installer-harm fingerprints:

- scripts/postinstall-agent.mjs runs at install time and performs outbound network activity (GET requests, ping/host probing, identifier collection). A logging-schema package has no legitimate reason to ship a postinstall agent that beacons out. - dist/discordRelayUpload.js implements POST-based upload flows with base64 encoding/decoding of payloads and host-reachability probes (ping) — a Discord-channel relay used for off-host data delivery, unrelated to the package's advertised purpose. - dist/secretScan/contentScanner.js and dist/secretScan/agentStartupAudit.js implement a secret-scanning routine that fetches huggingface.co endpoints from an 'agent startup audit' code path, with base64 buffer handling consistent with credential extraction and transmission. - dist/hfCredentials.js handles base64-encoded Hugging Face credentials, and dist/deploymentDefaults.js plus scripts/encode-deployment.mjs perform multi-stage base64 decoding of deployment payloads — typical staged-payload obfuscation. - dist/relayServer.js bundles a long-lived relay/server component with repeated host-probe (ping) primitives.

Taken together — install-time agent with outbound traffic, secret-scanning + credential modules, base64-staged deployment payloads, and a Discord upload relay, all in a package nominally advertised as a zod/pino integration — the shipped behavior matches an exfiltration/relay toolchain rather than a logging utility. Installing this package triggers the postinstall agent automatically.

\#\# Source: ghsa-malware (d4630d39e948537d5f62634527a049fc08b52373594e92b1fe1db32b7684cbe6) 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:** zod-pino
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.127
- **Version published:** 2026-06-23T20:09:46.897Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-07-08T21:10:25.054Z
- **Known versions:** 6
- **Latest version:** 1.0.127
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/zod-pino>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-6273>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/zod-pino/v/1.0.122>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/zod-pino/v/1.0.123>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/zod-pino/v/1.0.124>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/zod-pino/v/1.0.126>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/zod-pino/v/1.0.127>)
- [ADVISORY](<https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q52v-x293-p999>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/zod-pino/v/1.0.125>)
