Security Trust Report: event-stream

[email protected]: 54/100 | Grade: C | Tier: STANDARD (confidence: ±3)

Data verified on 2026-04-02 from 8 security databases.

TL;DR

• Security incident detected — compromised via account takeover/sabotage
• Consider switching to highland (High-level streams library)
• Pin your version and monitor for changes

⚠️ Security Incident Background

In November 2018, a malicious contributor (@right9ctrl) gained maintainer access through social engineering and injected a cryptocurrency-stealing payload via the flatmap-stream dependency. The attack targeted Copay Bitcoin wallets and affected 2M+ downstream projects.

Score Breakdown

Maintainer Trust:  █████████░░░░░░░░░░░ 44/100
Package Health:    █████████████████░░░ 86/100
Supply Chain:      ████████░░░░░░░░░░░░ 39/100
Community:         █████████░░░░░░░░░░░ 46/100

Why this score?

• Maintainer Trust is 44 because: single maintainer (bus factor risk), maintainer changes detected
• Supply Chain is 39 because: 1 security incident(s) in breach database, in breach database
• Community is 46 because: no public GitHub repo linked (may be private or on another platform)

⚠️ Security Incident

This package was compromised via account takeover/sabotage (no CVE assigned). See Security Incident Background above for details.

Key Risk Flags

• 🔴 CRITICAL: HISTORICAL BREACH: Malicious code injected via flatmap-stream (2018)
• 🔴 CRITICAL: 1 CRITICAL security incident from breach database (no CVE assigned)
• 🟠 HIGH: Primary maintainer account is less than 6 months old (0 days)
• 🟠 HIGH: Maintainer(s) removed in v4.0.0: dominictarr
• 🟠 HIGH: Burst publishing detected — 5+ versions in a single day

🛠️ What Should You Do?

Immediate:

• 📌 Pin to known-safe version: 3.3.4 (before flatmap-stream injection)
• 🔄 Or replace with highland — High-level streams library
• 📖 Review the security incident above

Always: Pin version, run pkgtrust scan in CI, monitor at nrupak.com/trust/event-stream

🔄 Safer Alternatives

| Package | Why | Trust Report | |---------|-----|-------------| | highland | High-level streams library | View score | | Node.js streams | Built-in, no dependency needed | View score | | through2 | Simple stream wrapper | View score |

Maintainers

• npm ✅ 2FA (org)

Methodology: 18+ signals across 4 categories (Maintainer 35%, Package 25%, Supply Chain 25%, Community 15%). Full scoring docs →

Check your project: npm i -g @cyberhub/pkgtrust && pkgtrust scan event-stream — CLI docs Data Sources: GitHub Advisories · OSV.dev · npm audit · Snyk · Socket.dev · npms.io · Bundlephobia · deps.dev

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This is an automated security report. Not affiliated with the event-stream team. Updated 2026-04-02.