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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@agentvault/agentvault/v/0.23.53"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@agentvault/agentvault/v/0.23.53.md"
package: "@agentvault/agentvault"
report_status: "published"
title: "@agentvault/agentvault@0.23.53 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.23.53"
---

# @agentvault/agentvault@0.23.53 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 19 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.23.53
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

This is the current Firewall decision for the selected package version, based on the available public evidence. Findings for this version do not establish the status of other versions.

AI assessment: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Inspected source does not support the scanner’s credential-redirection claim: the service defaults resolve to AgentVault, and setup is an explicit CLI flow. The package has no install hook, and the flagged command execution belongs to CLI diagnostics or setup.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-25T09:16:18.471Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-25T09:20:53.233Z
- **Download time:** 1539 ms
- **Static scan time:** 19804 ms
- **AI review time:** 253418 ms
- **Total time:** 274762 ms

The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs.

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** No attack was identified in the inspected source. Network calls support the AgentVault messaging and skill features, while setup and system commands are exposed through CLI actions.

- **Trigger:** No install-time trigger was found; CLI setup requires an explicit command and invite token.

- **Impact:** No confirmed unauthorized data transfer, persistence, or destructive behavior was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-25T09:20:53.233Z

### AI review details

- **Review stage:** source\_first\_review

- **Mechanism:** The inspected code uses the configured AgentVault API endpoint for service requests. CLI diagnostics and setup perform local system operations when invoked.

- **Rationale:** Inspected source does not support the scanner’s credential-redirection claim: the service defaults resolve to AgentVault, and setup is an explicit CLI flow. The package has no install hook, and the flagged command execution belongs to CLI diagnostics or setup.

- **Files touched:** package.json, dist/index.js, dist/cli.js, dist/openclaw-entry.js, .lpm-dependency-evidence-958742f7-2f15-487e-b604-2f1c232f7871/0/npm-linux/lib/websocket.js, .lpm-dependency-evidence-958742f7-2f15-487e-b604-2f1c232f7871/2/npm-linux/lib/utils.js

- **Network endpoints:** https://api.agentvault.chat

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** package.json has no install-time hook; its publish hook runs the build., The inspected runtime uses AgentVault’s service URL by default; the OpenClaw skill call uses the configured account URL or that same default., The CLI parses explicit arguments and documents setup as a command requiring an invite token., The dependency excerpts show WebSocket exports, browser behavior, and notification functionality consistent with their declared roles.

- **Evidence against:** The CLI includes shell and filesystem operations for diagnostics and setup, but the inspected code places them in CLI command flows rather than package installation., The OpenClaw integration sends skill invocation data and a device JWT to its configured AgentVault API endpoint.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @agentvault/agentvault@0.23.53.

- Review the evidence and your use of @agentvault/agentvault@0.23.53 before allowing it. Restrict the permissions described in this report.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.

## Public findings

### 1. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

### 2. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@agentvault/agentvault@0.23.53/dist/cli.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L93127: });
L93128: import { execSync } from "node:child_process";
L93129: import { existsSync as existsSync2, readFileSync as readFileSync3, writeFileSync, chmodSync, readdirSync, statSync } from "node:fs";
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package source references shell execution.

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/openclaw-entry.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@agentvault/agentvault@0.23.53/dist/openclaw-entry.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L329: "use strict";
L330: defaultImporter = (specifier) => import(
L331: /* @vite-ignore */
```

### 6. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 7. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 8. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 9. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@agentvault/agentvault@0.23.53/dist/cli.js>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L93240: try {
L93241: execSync("curl -sf --max-time 3 http://127.0.0.1:18789/", { stdio: "pipe" });
L93242: return { name: "Gateway port (18789)", status: "pass", message: "Responding" };
...
L93254: }
L93255: const home = process.env.HOME ?? "";
L93256: const warnings = [];
```

### 10. Critical: Hardcoded Runtime Data Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@agentvault/agentvault@0.23.53/dist/cli.js>)

Source sends credentials or rich application records to a package-controlled external receiver enabled by default.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Source sends the broad process environment to a literal external destination.
L129: // ../../node_modules/libsodium-sumo/dist/modules-sumo-esm/libsodium-sumo.mjs
L130: var __filename, __dirname, url, path, Module, Module, root, window_, crypto_, randomValuesStandard, crypto2, randomValueNodeJS, _Module, libsodium_sumo_default;
L131: var init_libsodium_sumo = __esm({
...
L224: Module2.useBackupModule = function() {
L225: return new Promise(function(resolve6, reject2) {
L226: var Module3 = {};
...
L277: quit_2 = (status, toThrow) => {
L278: process.exitCode = status;
L279: throw toThrow;
...
L291: xhr.responseType = "arraybuffer";
L292: xhr.send(null);
L293: return new Uint8Array(xhr.response);
```

### 11. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@agentvault/agentvault@0.23.53/dist/index.js>)

Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration.
dist/index.js:
Authorization: this._authHeader
import { chmod, mkdir, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
await writeFile(filePath, data, { encoding: "utf-8", mode: FILE_MODE, ...flag ? { flag } : {} });
await handle.writeFile(JSON.stringify(state, null, 2), "utf8");
await handle.writeFile(JSON.stringify(stored), { encoding: "utf8" });
import { createInterface } from "node:readline";
Authorization: `Bearer ${input.deviceJwt}`,
Authorization: `Bearer ${this.deviceJwt()}`
```

### 12. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@agentvault/agentvault@0.23.53/dist/cli.js>)

Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L129: // ../../node_modules/libsodium-sumo/dist/modules-sumo-esm/libsodium-sumo.mjs
L130: var __filename, __dirname, url, path, Module, Module, root, window_, crypto_, randomValuesStandard, crypto2, randomValueNodeJS, _Module, libsodium_sumo_default;
L131: var init_libsodium_sumo = __esm({
...
L224: Module2.useBackupModule = function() {
L225: return new Promise(function(resolve6, reject2) {
L226: var Module3 = {};
...
L277: quit_2 = (status, toThrow) => {
L278: process.exitCode = status;
L279: throw toThrow;
...
L291: xhr.responseType = "arraybuffer";
L292: xhr.send(null);
L293: return new Uint8Array(xhr.response);
```

### 13. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@agentvault/agentvault@0.23.53/dist/cli.js>)

Source spawns a local helper that also contains network and dynamic execution context; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Cross-file remote execution chain: dist/cli.js spawns dist/index.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L129: // ../../node_modules/libsodium-sumo/dist/modules-sumo-esm/libsodium-sumo.mjs
L130: var __filename, __dirname, url, path, Module, Module, root, window_, crypto_, randomValuesStandard, crypto2, randomValueNodeJS, _Module, libsodium_sumo_default;
L131: var init_libsodium_sumo = __esm({
...
L224: Module2.useBackupModule = function() {
L225: return new Promise(function(resolve6, reject2) {
L226: var Module3 = {};
...
L277: quit_2 = (status, toThrow) => {
L278: process.exitCode = status;
L279: throw toThrow;
...
L291: xhr.responseType = "arraybuffer";
L292: xhr.send(null);
L293: return new Uint8Array(xhr.response);
```

### 14. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 15. Low: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

### 16. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@agentvault/agentvault@0.23.53/dist/index.js>)

Package contains source files above the normal full-analysis size ceiling.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/index.js
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 4763690
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 17. Medium: Oversized Cli Entrypoint
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@agentvault/agentvault@0.23.53/dist/cli.js>)

Package contains an oversized executable-looking CLI entrypoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/cli.js
kind = oversized_cli_entrypoint
sizeBytes = 4459031
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 18. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

### 19. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@agentvault/agentvault@0.23.53/dist/cli.js>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_path_work_budget_exceeded; limitedFiles = 2
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 2
- **Optional dependencies:** 1
- **Peer dependencies:** 1
- **Development dependencies:** 8
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 4

### Published dependency entries
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.32.1 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.16.0 (Dependency)
- node-notifier ^10.0.1 (OptionalDependency)
- openclaw \>=2026.3.0 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @agentvault/agentvault
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.23.53
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-25T09:11:50.792Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-13T13:12:41.389Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-05T00:24:51.978Z
- **Known versions:** 37
- **Latest version:** 0.23.66
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** End-to-end encrypted messaging for AI agents: connects an agent to its owner, rooms and other agents on AgentVault.
- **Maintainers:** motiveflow, motiveflow2
- **Artifact files:** 113
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 31,579,634 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@agentvault/agentvault/v/0.23.53>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/motiveflowllc/agentvault-gen2>)
- [Homepage](<https://agentvault.chat/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/motiveflowllc/agentvault-gen2/issues>)
