chai-as-reddit@7.0.4
Vulnerability report · Last retrieved from osv.dev September 6, 2026 at 5:01 AM UTC
OSV ID
MAL-2026-10939
Ecosystem
npm
Summary
The npm package chai-as-reddit@7.0.4 is a trojaned distribution. Its published metadata and README describe a Chai plugin for Reddit API assertions, but the shipped tree (lib/, docs/, docsify/, SECURITY.md, LICENSE, index.d.ts) is copied from the unrelated Pino logger project as camouflage. The real entry point index.js is an unrelated Express-style middleware factory that additionally runs require('./lib/config') at top level. lib/config.js is a ~4 MB heavily obfuscated JavaScript file using obfuscator.io-style transformations (hex-string identifiers, a ~23,890-entry rotating string array, control-flow flattening, encoded number/string wrappers), and it does not exist in genuine Pino. Because index.js loads it at module top level, the opaque payload executes in the installer's Node.js process on any require or import of the package, before any exported API is invoked. The combination of a cover-story package name and README, camouflage sourced from an unrelated project, and an auto-executed obfuscated blob is characteristic of a supply-chain execution payload.
Source: amazon-inspector (8eff17b9d2536e662413c5c7090a1611f8c2813033a03960f9d979f23f2f72e7)
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