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Incident detail

criticalnpm·typosquatting·osv

Malicious code in chai-as-precision (npm)

chai-as-precision

Risk score

92

AI summary

Indexed incident for chai-as-precision (npm).

Description

Package is published as chai-as-precision but its shipped code mimics pino (exports middleware.pino, ships pino.js/proto.js/redaction.js), a name/purpose mismatch consistent with typosquatting or masquerade for transitive installation. When the exported middleware is invoked, index.js spawns node lib/initializeCaller.js with detached: true, stdio: 'ignore', and child.unref(), decoupling the child from the parent and suppressing output. lib/initializeCaller.js shadows process with a local object whose DEV_API_KEY is a base64 blob decoding to https://tomato-brunhilda-40.tiiny.site/index.json, GETs that URL, and executes the returned cookie field via new Function.constructor('require', response)(require) — arbitrary attacker-controlled JavaScript is executed with full require access on the host running the middleware. The destination is an anonymous tiiny.site host unrelated to any documented purpose, the URL and custom auth header are base64-hidden behind a fake env-var wrapper, and the executed content is mutable and controlled by whoever owns the tiiny.site page.

Technical details

Affected versions

=7.0.6

Indicators

  • affected version=7.0.675%

Timeline

  1. Advisory published
  2. Indexed by ThreatPkg

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