---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@bobfrankston/rmfmail/v/1.2.241"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@bobfrankston/rmfmail/v/1.2.241.md"
package: "@bobfrankston/rmfmail"
report_status: "published"
title: "@bobfrankston/rmfmail@1.2.241 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.2.241"
---

# @bobfrankston/rmfmail@1.2.241 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Disclosure of email addresses, IMAP hosts/users, and plaintext IMAP passwords when configured.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Credential Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 1.2.241
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Android startup exfiltrates account metadata and potentially IMAP credentials to a remote logging host. The logging request is automatic and failures are suppressed.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-10T21:30:21.391Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-10T21:31:28.916Z
- **Download time:** 1261 ms
- **Static scan time:** 15805 ms
- **AI review time:** 50457 ms
- **Total time:** 67525 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Android startup exfiltrates account metadata and potentially IMAP credentials to a remote logging host. The logging request is automatic and failures are suppressed.

- **Trigger:** Android account initialization or cloud-account reconciliation

- **Impact:** Disclosure of email addresses, IMAP hosts/users, and plaintext IMAP passwords when configured.

- **Evidence paths:** packages/mailx-store-web/android-bootstrap.ts, packages/mailx-store-web/main-thread-host.ts, package.json, bin/postinstall.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-10T21:31:28.916Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** silent fetch-based diagnostic logging of account configuration

- **Attack narrative:** During Android initialization, the package serializes account.imap into a vlog message and sends it to rmf39.aaz.lt. IMAP configuration is used elsewhere with account.imap.password, so the serialized configuration can contain a plaintext password. The fetch is automatic, silent, and errors are discarded.

- **Rationale:** Source directly shows unconsented remote transmission of account configuration, including a path that serializes credentials. This is concrete credential exfiltration, not package-aligned mail-provider traffic.

- **Files touched:** packages/mailx-store-web/android-bootstrap.ts, packages/mailx-store-web/main-thread-host.ts

- **Network endpoints:** https://rmf39.aaz.lt/logit/

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** Android bootstrap sends verbose logs to rmf39.aaz.lt., Logs include account email and IMAP configuration., JSON.stringify(account.imap) can include the IMAP password., Transmission is silent and automatic during Android account setup.

- **Evidence against:** postinstall only creates workspace-local package symlinks., MCP server uses a token-gated loopback daemon endpoint.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bobfrankston/rmfmail@1.2.241/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node bin/postinstall.js
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bobfrankston/rmfmail@1.2.241/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node bin/postinstall.js
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/build-bundles.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bobfrankston/rmfmail@1.2.241/bin/build-bundles.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L31: {
L32: const { execFileSync } = await import("node:child_process");
L33: try {
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/mailx.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bobfrankston/rmfmail@1.2.241/bin/mailx.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L242: // reg.exe value for `\"path\" \"%1\"` — double-backslash escapes for
L243: // cmd.exe's shell layer, which strips one level before the value reaches
L244: // reg.exe. Quoting %1 keeps `?` and `&` from being eaten by cmd before
```

### 6. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** client/app.bundle.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bobfrankston/rmfmail@1.2.241/client/app.bundle.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L11222: try {
L11223: const fn = new Function(`return (async () => (${code}))();`);
L11224: let v = await fn();
```

### 7. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/lean-accounts.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bobfrankston/rmfmail@1.2.241/bin/lean-accounts.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L136: if (fs.existsSync(path.join(dir, "package.json"))) {
L137: const mod = await import(pathToFileURL(path.join(dir, "lib", "esm", "main.js")).href).catch(() => null) ||
L138: await import("jsonc-parser").catch(() => null);
```

### 8. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** bin/build-bundles.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bobfrankston/rmfmail@1.2.241/bin/build-bundles.mjs>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5: * mailx's msger custom protocol routes every fetch through one IPC channel
L6: * (Rust → daemon stdin → response → stdout), so an ES module import cascade
L7: * pays a multi-second roundtrip per file. With ~17 client-side modules each
...
L31: {
L32: const { execFileSync } = await import("node:child_process");
L33: try {
...
L162: logLevel: "info",
L163: // .wasm files are inlined as base64 data URLs so the runtime can
L164: // decode → Uint8Array → pass as initSqlJs({ wasmBinary }), bypassing
L165: // sql.js's fetch(...) of the .wasm. Android WebView refuses to
L166: // compile WASM fetched from file:// (even with AllowFileAccess /
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 12. High: Copied Package Dependency Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 83.0%
- **Path:** bin/lean-accounts.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bobfrankston/rmfmail@1.2.241/bin/lean-accounts.js>)

Package metadata claims a different repository identity while copied source loads a runtime dependency bridge.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
package = @bobfrankston/rmfmail; repositoryIdentity = mailx; dependency = jsonc-parser
L137: const mod = await import(pathToFileURL(path.join(dir, "lib", "esm", "main.js")).href).catch(() => null) ||
L138: await import("jsonc-parser").catch(() => null);
L139: if (mod) { parseJsonc = mod.parse; break; }
```

### 13. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** bin/build-bundles.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bobfrankston/rmfmail@1.2.241/bin/build-bundles.mjs>)

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: bin/build-bundles.mjs spawns client/app.bundle.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L5: * mailx's msger custom protocol routes every fetch through one IPC channel
L6: * (Rust → daemon stdin → response → stdout), so an ES module import cascade
L7: * pays a multi-second roundtrip per file. With ~17 client-side modules each
...
L31: {
L32: const { execFileSync } = await import("node:child_process");
L33: try {
...
L162: logLevel: "info",
L163: // .wasm files are inlined as base64 data URLs so the runtime can
L164: // decode → Uint8Array → pass as initSqlJs({ wasmBinary }), bypassing
L165: // sql.js's fetch(...) of the .wasm. Android WebView refuses to
L166: // compile WASM fetched from file:// (even with AllowFileAccess /
```

### 14. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** bin/mailx.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bobfrankston/rmfmail@1.2.241/bin/mailx.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L641: // session — inherits it. On Windows a process's cwd holds the directory
L642: // locked, so `npm install -g` (the in-app self-update AND a manual update)
L643: // dies with EBUSY renaming .../rmfmail/bin for as long as we run
...
L654: if (!verbose && !isDaemon && !process.argv.slice(2).some(a => /^-/.test(a))) {
L655: const { spawn } = await import("node:child_process");
L656: const child = spawn(process.execPath, [...process.argv.slice(1), "--daemon"], {
```

### 15. Medium: Protestware
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 90.0%

Package source has broad protestware-like patterns that need review.

### 16. Low: Obfuscated
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 60.0%

Package source has low-confidence obfuscation-like patterns.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 18. Low: Telemetry
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 20. Medium: Ships Native Binary
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/rmfshare.exe
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bobfrankston/rmfmail@1.2.241/bin/rmfshare.exe>)

Package ships native binary artifacts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = bin/rmfshare.exe
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 4603904
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 21. 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.

### 22. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** bin/mailx.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bobfrankston/rmfmail@1.2.241/bin/mailx.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 = @bobfrankston/rmfmail@1.2.228
matchedPath = bin/mailx.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QGJvYmZyYW5rc3Rvbi9ybWZtYWls:1.2.228
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 23. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** bin/mailx.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bobfrankston/rmfmail@1.2.241/bin/mailx.ts>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @bobfrankston/rmfmail@1.2.228
matchedPath = bin/mailx.ts
matchedIdentity = npm:QGJvYmZyYW5rc3Rvbi9ybWZtYWls:1.2.228
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 24. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** bin/build-rmfmailto-exe.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bobfrankston/rmfmail@1.2.241/bin/build-rmfmailto-exe.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 = @bobfrankston/rmfmail@1.2.228
matchedPath = bin/build-rmfmailto-exe.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QGJvYmZyYW5rc3Rvbi9ybWZtYWls:1.2.228
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 25. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** bin/build-rmfshare-exe.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bobfrankston/rmfmail@1.2.241/bin/build-rmfshare-exe.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 = @bobfrankston/rmfmail@1.2.228
matchedPath = bin/build-rmfshare-exe.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QGJvYmZyYW5rc3Rvbi9ybWZtYWls:1.2.228
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 26. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** packages/mailx-service/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bobfrankston/rmfmail@1.2.241/packages/mailx-service/index.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 = @bobfrankston/rmfmail@1.2.237
matchedPath = packages/mailx-service/index.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QGJvYmZyYW5rc3Rvbi9ybWZtYWls:1.2.237
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 27
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 3
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 27

### Published dependency entries
- @bobfrankston/iflow-direct ^0.1.65 (Dependency)
- @bobfrankston/mailx-host ^0.1.15 (Dependency)
- @bobfrankston/mailx-imap ^0.1.148 (Dependency)
- @bobfrankston/mailx-store-web ^0.1.76 (Dependency)
- @bobfrankston/mailx-sync ^0.1.29 (Dependency)
- @bobfrankston/miscinfo ^1.0.16 (Dependency)
- @bobfrankston/msger ^0.1.422 (Dependency)
- @bobfrankston/node-tcp-transport ^0.1.10 (Dependency)
- @bobfrankston/oauthsupport ^1.0.34 (Dependency)
- @bobfrankston/rmf-tiny ^0.1.45 (Dependency)
- @bobfrankston/smtp-direct ^0.1.9 (Dependency)
- @bobfrankston/tcp-transport ^0.1.8 (Dependency)
- @capacitor/android ^8.3.0 (Dependency)
- @capacitor/cli ^8.3.0 (Dependency)
- @capacitor/core ^8.3.0 (Dependency)
- dictionary-en ^4.0.0 (Dependency)
- express ^4.21.0 (Dependency)
- harper.js ^2.4.0 (Dependency)
- html-to-docx ^1.8.0 (Dependency)
- jsonc-parser ^3.3.1 (Dependency)
- mailparser ^3.7.2 (Dependency)
- mammoth ^1.12.0 (Dependency)
- nodemailer ^7.0.0 (Dependency)
- nspell ^2.1.5 (Dependency)
- quill ^2.0.3 (Dependency)
- sql.js ^1.14.1 (Dependency)
- tinymce ^8.5.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @bobfrankston/rmfmail
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.2.241
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-09T20:30:48.366Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T04:46:34.920Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-14T13:36:07.515Z
- **Known versions:** 119
- **Latest version:** 1.2.259
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Local-first email client with IMAP sync and standalone native app
- **Author:** Bob Frankston
- **Keywords:** email, imap, smtp, mail-client, webview
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=24.2.0
- **Artifact files:** 795
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 32,338,156 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@bobfrankston/rmfmail/v/1.2.241>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/BobFrankston/mailx.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/BobFrankston/mailx#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/BobFrankston/mailx/issues>)