[BUG] npm i fails during audit

[hiuxmaycry]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Current Behavior

When there is a registry with no published versions like the following: https://registry.npmjs.org/exchange-ui, it causes the audit process to fail with a "Cannot convert undefined or null to object" Error.

There is another problem, my repository is marked as "private": true in the package.json, so I don't understand why it is being checked against the global registry? Shouldn't it be unchecked since it's not a repository I want to publish?

Expected Behavior

The install should be able to be done without problems.

Steps To Reproduce

1. In this environment... Having a repository created with exchange-ui as a package name
2. With this config... no specific configuration.
3. Run 'npm ci'
4. See error... "Cannot convert undefined or null to object"

2022-08-01T13_08_54_339Z-debug-0.log

Environment

• npm: 8.15.1
• Node: v16.16.0
• OS: Mac Os (Monterrey)
• platform: -