---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@ashx-j/lunr/v/0.2.21"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@ashx-j/lunr/v/0.2.21.md"
package: "@ashx-j/lunr"
report_status: "published"
title: "@ashx-j/lunr@0.2.21 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.2.21"
---

# @ashx-j/lunr@0.2.21 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — A Grok CLI access token is exposed to the fixed endpoint and the external Grok CLI authentication state can be modified.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Credential Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 0.2.21
- **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: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

At runtime, the package reads a Grok CLI OAuth credential, transmits its access token to a fixed endpoint, and may update the external Grok credential file. This is a cross-application credential bridge rather than ordinary package-local authentication.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 96.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-13T15:44:30.016Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-13T15:45:55.629Z
- **Download time:** 765 ms
- **Static scan time:** 21062 ms
- **AI review time:** 63784 ms
- **Total time:** 85613 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:** At runtime, the package reads a Grok CLI OAuth credential, transmits its access token to a fixed endpoint, and may update the external Grok credential file. This is a cross-application credential bridge rather than ordinary package-local authentication.

- **Trigger:** Running lunr with xAI OAuth credentials or a discovered Grok CLI session, including usage retrieval or credential refresh.

- **Impact:** A Grok CLI access token is exposed to the fixed endpoint and the external Grok CLI authentication state can be modified.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/core/model-runtime.js, dist/core/grok-cli-auth.js, dist/core/usage-adapters/xai.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-13T15:45:55.629Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Reads foreign OAuth credentials, forwards a bearer token remotely, and persists refreshed credentials.

- **Attack narrative:** The default model runtime enables a wrapper around the package credential store that reads Grok CLI OAuth data from the user's external authentication file. When xAI plan usage is fetched, it places that access token in an Authorization bearer header and sends it to a fixed remote endpoint. During credential modification it can also write a refreshed token back to the external Grok CLI file. The interactive import prompt does not remove the default wrapper path.

- **Rationale:** The package implements a concrete foreign-credential collection, remote bearer-token transmission, and cross-application credential persistence chain. No install hook is present, but the runtime behavior is sufficient to block publication.

- **Files touched:** ~/.grok/auth.json

- **Network endpoints:** https://cli-chat-proxy.grok.com/v1/billing?format=credits

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 96.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for block:** The runtime automatically wraps its credential store to read Grok CLI OAuth credentials., It sends the accessed OAuth token as a bearer credential to a fixed remote billing endpoint., It can write refreshed credentials back into the separate Grok CLI authentication file., The package has no npm install lifecycle hook, so the behavior occurs during application runtime.

- **Evidence against:** The interactive login screen offers a visible choice before importing an existing Grok CLI login., The manifest contains no preinstall, install, or postinstall script.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @ashx-j/lunr@0.2.21.

- Avoid installing @ashx-j/lunr@0.2.21. Remove it from direct dependencies and check your lockfile for transitive copies.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
- If this version ran, investigate the affected machine and build environment. Rotate credentials it could access and rebuild from a trusted environment.

## Public findings

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. Medium: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/node-runtime/chunk-WJVFOIB5.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ashx-j/lunr@0.2.21/dist/node-runtime/chunk-WJVFOIB5.js>)

Package contains a possible secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = generic_password
severity = medium
line = 20396
```

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/exec.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ashx-j/lunr@0.2.21/dist/core/exec.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: */
L4: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L5: import { waitForChildProcess } from "../utils/child-process.js";
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/utils/tools-manager.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ashx-j/lunr@0.2.21/dist/utils/tools-manager.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L186: const script = "& { param($archive, $destination) $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'; Expand-Archive -LiteralPath $archive -DestinationPath $destination -Force }";
L187: const powershellFailure = runExtractionCommand("powershell.exe", [
L188: "-NoLogo",
```

### 5. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** dist/node-runtime/chunk-UWQYRSYQ.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ashx-j/lunr@0.2.21/dist/node-runtime/chunk-UWQYRSYQ.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2330: sourceCode = `${gen.scopeRefs(names_1.default.scope)}return ${validateCode}`, this.opts.code.process && (sourceCode = this.opts.code.process(sourceCode, sch));
L2331: let validate = new Function(`${names_1.default.self}`, `${names_1.default.scope}`, sourceCode)(this, this.scope.get());
L2332: if (this.scope.value(validateName, { ref: validate }), validate.errors = null, validate.schema = sch.schema, validate.schemaEnv = sch, sch.$async && (validate.$async = !0), this.op...
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/extensions/loader.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ashx-j/lunr@0.2.21/dist/core/extensions/loader.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L21: }
L22: const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
L23: /**
```

### 7. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/rollback.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ashx-j/lunr@0.2.21/dist/core/rollback.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L27: */
L28: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L29: import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
...
L33: import { CONFIG_DIR_NAME, getAgentDir } from "../config.js";
L34: const ROLLBACK_BASE = join(homedir(), ".lunr", "rollback");
L35: const contexts = new Map();
...
L217: });
L218: if (!headSrc.error && headSrc.status === 0 && headSrc.stdout) {
L219: turn.files.set(sourceAbs, {
...
L322: try {
L323: const parsed = JSON.parse(readFileSync(path, "utf-8"));
L324: if (parsed && typeof parsed === "object" && !Array.isArray(parsed)) {
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 11. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/node-runtime/chunk-UWQYRSYQ.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ashx-j/lunr@0.2.21/dist/node-runtime/chunk-UWQYRSYQ.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/node-runtime/chunk-UWQYRSYQ.js:
__privateSet(this, _url, new URL(url, getBaseURL()));
function getBaseURL() {
tokens && (headers.Authorization = `Bearer ${tokens.access_token}`);
* Call this method after the user has finished authorizing via their user agent and is redirected back to the MCP client application. This will exchange the authorization code for ...
async finishAuth(authorizationCode) {
authorizationCode,
import { existsSync, readFileSync, realpathSync, readdirSync, statSync, writeFileSync, renameSync, mkdirSync, openSync, readSync, closeSync } from "node:fs";
writeFileSync(tmpPath, JSON.stringify(merged, null, 2), "utf
```

### 12. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** examples/extensions/doom-overlay/doom/build/doom.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ashx-j/lunr@0.2.21/examples/extensions/doom-overlay/doom/build/doom.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L7: 
L8: var Module=moduleArg;var readyPromiseResolve,readyPromiseReject;var readyPromise=new Promise((resolve,reject)=>{readyPromiseResolve=resolve;readyPromiseReject=reject});var ENVIRONM...
L9:
```

### 13. High: Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/node-runtime/pi-prompt-template-model-QWTCGLJU.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ashx-j/lunr@0.2.21/dist/node-runtime/pi-prompt-template-model-QWTCGLJU.js>)

Manifest-trigger-reachable source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-trigger-reachable source links an external AI-agent control path to a behavior-bearing write operation.
.thinkinglevels ? prompt.thinkinglevels.join(",") : prompt.thinking, thinkinglabel = thinkingvalue ? ` ${thinkingvalue}` : "", looplabel = prompt.loop !== void 0 ? ` loop:${prompt.loop === null ? "unlimited" : prompt.loop}` : "", boomeranglabel = prompt.boomerang ? " boomerang" : "", subagentlabel = prompt.subagent ? ` subagent:${prompt.subagent === !0 ? "delegate" : prompt.subagent}` : "", parallellabel = prompt.parallel !== void 0 ? ` parallel:${prompt.parallel}` : "", deterministiclabel = prompt.deterministic ? ` deterministic-step:${prompt.deterministic.handoff}` : "", workerslabel = prompt.workers ? ` workers:${effectivelineupcount(prompt.workers)}` : "", reviewerslabel = p
```

### 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: Ships Wasm Module
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** examples/extensions/doom-overlay/doom/build/doom.wasm
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ashx-j/lunr@0.2.21/examples/extensions/doom-overlay/doom/build/doom.wasm>)

Package ships WebAssembly modules.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = examples/extensions/doom-overlay/doom/build/doom.wasm
kind = wasm_module
sizeBytes = 380169
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 17. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** examples/extensions/doom-overlay/doom/build.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ashx-j/lunr@0.2.21/examples/extensions/doom-overlay/doom/build.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = examples/extensions/doom-overlay/doom/build.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 3366
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/builtin-extensions/pi-lsp-extension/src/tree-sitter/pattern-compiler.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ashx-j/lunr@0.2.21/dist/builtin-extensions/pi-lsp-extension/src/tree-sitter/pattern-compiler.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 9
```

### 20. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/utils/shell.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ashx-j/lunr@0.2.21/dist/utils/shell.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @phi-code-admin/phi-code@0.99.0
matchedPath = dist/utils/shell.js
matchedIdentity = npm:[redacted]:0.99.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 21. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/node-runtime/chunk-2BUAYZ7K.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ashx-j/lunr@0.2.21/dist/node-runtime/chunk-2BUAYZ7K.js>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = @ashx-j/lunr@0.2.20
matchedIdentity = npm:QGFzaHgtai9sdW5y:0.2.20
similarity = 0.900
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 35
- **Optional dependencies:** 1
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 10
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 36

### Published dependency entries
- @ashx-j/lunr-agent ^0.2.21 (Dependency)
- @ashx-j/lunr-ai ^0.2.21 (Dependency)
- @ashx-j/lunr-tui ^0.2.21 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/ext-apps 1.7.4 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk 1.30.0 (Dependency)
- @mozilla/readability 0.6.0 (Dependency)
- @silvia-odwyer/photon-node 0.3.4 (Dependency)
- @sinclair/typebox npm:typebox@1.1.38 (Dependency)
- chalk 5.6.2 (Dependency)
- croner 10.0.1 (Dependency)
- cross-spawn 7.0.6 (Dependency)
- diff 8.0.4 (Dependency)
- discord.js 14.27.0 (Dependency)
- glob 13.0.6 (Dependency)
- highlight.js 10.7.3 (Dependency)
- hosted-git-info 9.0.3 (Dependency)
- ignore 7.0.5 (Dependency)
- jiti 2.7.0 (Dependency)
- linkedom 0.16.11 (Dependency)
- minimatch 10.2.5 (Dependency)
- open 10.2.0 (Dependency)
- p-limit 6.2.0 (Dependency)
- proper-lockfile 4.1.2 (Dependency)
- recheck 4.5.0 (Dependency)
- semver 7.8.0 (Dependency)
- tree-sitter-wasms 0.1.13 (Dependency)
- turndown 7.2.4 (Dependency)
- typebox 1.1.38 (Dependency)
- undici 8.5.0 (Dependency)
- unicode-animations 1.0.3 (Dependency)
- unpdf 1.6.2 (Dependency)
- vscode-languageserver-protocol 3.18.2 (Dependency)
- web-tree-sitter 0.24.7 (Dependency)
- yaml 2.9.0 (Dependency)
- zod 4.4.3 (Dependency)
- @mariozechner/clipboard 0.3.9 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @ashx-j/lunr
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.2.21
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-13T15:41:06.512Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-16T12:38:09.855Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-04T22:39:47.464Z
- **Known versions:** 31
- **Latest version:** 0.2.28
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** lunR — terminal coding agent CLI with read, bash, edit, write tools and session management
- **Author:** Mario Zechner
- **Keywords:** coding-agent, ai, llm, cli, tui, agent
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.19.0
- **Artifact files:** 2520
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 41,946,033 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@ashx-j/lunr/v/0.2.21>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/ashx-j/lunR.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/ashx-j/lunR#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/ashx-j/lunR/issues>)
