---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/9remote/v/2.2.5"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/9remote/v/2.2.5.md"
package: "9remote"
report_status: "published"
title: "9remote@2.2.5 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "2.2.5"
---

# 9remote@2.2.5 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Quarantined by product-default policy — this version is not allowed through the firewall.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 2.2.5
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-13406 confirms this npm version as malicious. 9remote is a remote-shell tool: its CLI launches an HTTP/WebSocket server and provisions a Cloudflare Quick Tunnel that exposes the host to the public internet at a 9remote.cc-fronted URL. Incoming WebSocket \`input\` messages are forwarded verbatim into a locally spawned PTY (bash/zsh on Unix, cmd.exe/powershell.exe on Windows) via \`pty.write(s.data)\`, after \`spawn(o.path, o.args,...)\` in the pty daemon...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-06T14:30:14.421Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-06T14:30:14.421Z
- **Download time:** Not available
- **Static scan time:** Not available
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** Not available

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Osv Malicious Advisory
- **Category:** External Intel
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

9remote is a remote-shell tool: its CLI launches an HTTP/WebSocket server and provisions a Cloudflare Quick Tunnel that exposes the host to the public internet at a 9remote.cc-fronted URL. Incoming WebSocket \`input\` messages are forwarded verbatim into a locally spawned PTY (bash/zsh on Unix, cmd.exe/powershell.exe on Windows) via \`pty.write(s.data)\`, after \`spawn(o.path, o.args,...)\` in the pty daemon. The server's router treats requests bearing the \`cf-connecting-ip\` header as remote-authorized. Access is gated by a short-lived (~30-minute) one-time pair key shown as a QR code; anyone who obtains that key over the tunnel obtains a full interactive shell on the host with the user's privileges. The package is invoked explicitly by the operator (bin entry, not lifecycle scripts or top-level require side effects), and the tunnel terminates at first-party infrastructure (9remote.cc / Cloudflare), so this is the advertised behavior of the tool rather than a covert channel — but the blast radius on any host where the CLI is run is full-host remote code execution behind a single short-lived key.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 23
- **Optional dependencies:** 3
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 23
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 26

### Published dependency entries
- @xterm/addon-fit ^0.11.0 (Dependency)
- @xterm/addon-unicode11 ^0.9.0 (Dependency)
- @xterm/xterm ^6.0.0 (Dependency)
- archiver ^5.3.2 (Dependency)
- bufferutil 4.1.0 (Dependency)
- chalk ^5.4.1 (Dependency)
- chokidar ^3.6.0 (Dependency)
- edge-tts-node ^1.5.7 (Dependency)
- http-proxy ^1.18.1 (Dependency)
- inquirer ^9.3.8 (Dependency)
- koffi ^2.16.3 (Dependency)
- multicast-dns ^7.2.5 (Dependency)
- node-machine-id ^1.1.12 (Dependency)
- node-screenshots ^0.2.8 (Dependency)
- ora ^8.1.1 (Dependency)
- preact ^10.26.2 (Dependency)
- qrcode ^1.5.4 (Dependency)
- qrcode-terminal ^0.12.0 (Dependency)
- sharp 0.33.5 (Dependency)
- socket.io ^4.8.3 (Dependency)
- socket.io-client ^4.8.3 (Dependency)
- utf-8-validate 6.0.6 (Dependency)
- web-push ^3.6.7 (Dependency)
- @hurdlegroup/robotjs ^0.12.1 (OptionalDependency)
- node-datachannel 0.32.3 (OptionalDependency)
- node-pty 1.2.0-beta.12 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** 9remote
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.2.5
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-02T09:47:54.628Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T07:42:02.431Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-13T03:58:50.703Z
- **Known versions:** 23
- **Latest version:** 2.3.3
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Remote terminal access from anywhere
- **Maintainers:** decolua
- **Keywords:** remote, terminal, ssh, cli
- **Artifact files:** 18
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 4,045,262 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/9remote/v/2.2.5>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-13406>)
- [OpenSSF JSON](<https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/9remote/MAL-2026-13406.json>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/9remote/v/2.1.5>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/9remote/v/2.1.14>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/9remote/v/2.1.20>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/9remote/v/2.1.9>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/9remote/v/2.1.16>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/9remote/v/2.1.21>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/9remote/v/2.1.6>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/9remote/v/2.2.5>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/9remote/v/2.2.6>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/9remote/v/2.1.1>)