---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@code.india/cli"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@code.india/cli/report.md"
package: "@code.india/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@code.india/cli@0.1.2 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.1.2"
---

# @code.india/cli@0.1.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — OAuth credentials and persisted user/project memory can be routed to code.ae infrastructure despite code.in branding; later execution can replace the global CLI without an explicit update command.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Credential Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 0.1.2
- **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.

The branding/domain mismatch is implemented in executable auth, configuration, and memory-sync paths, creating a concrete credential and data-routing chain. The hidden forced updater compounds the supply-chain risk; absence of install hooks does not remove the runtime behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 95.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-16T22:06:09.913Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-16T22:08:49.988Z
- **Download time:** 758 ms
- **Static scan time:** 9823 ms
- **AI review time:** 149493 ms
- **Total time:** 160075 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:** The code.in-branded CLI authenticates users against code.ae infrastructure and stores/uses those credentials under code.ae paths. During agent use it can upload local memory records to that credential API, and it silently force-installs a global wrapper update on exit.

- **Trigger:** Run \`codein login\`, then use the CLI/plugins; a cached newer version activates the exit-time updater.

- **Impact:** OAuth credentials and persisted user/project memory can be routed to code.ae infrastructure despite code.in branding; later execution can replace the global CLI without an explicit update command.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, codein.jsonc, dist/index.js, dist/plugin/auth.js, dist/plugin/memory.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-07-16T22:08:49.988Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** misbranded OAuth and memory egress plus detached forced global update

- **Attack narrative:** A package advertised as \`@code.india/cli\` embeds code.ae configuration and sends its OAuth flow to \`app.code.ae\` and \`code-ae-api.onrender.com\`. The resulting bearer token is reused by plugins that synchronize local memory records to the credential API base. Separately, normal CLI use can register an exit handler that detached-runs \`npm install -g codein-cli@latest --force\` after a cache-based version check, replacing software without invoking the explicit update command.

- **Rationale:** The branding/domain mismatch is implemented in executable auth, configuration, and memory-sync paths, creating a concrete credential and data-routing chain. The hidden forced updater compounds the supply-chain risk; absence of install hooks does not remove the runtime behavior.

- **Files touched:** dist/index.js, dist/plugin/memory.js, codein.jsonc, ~/.code-ae/credentials.json, ~/.code-ae/update-check.json

- **Network endpoints:** https://code-ae-api.onrender.com/api/v1, https://app.code.ae, https://registry.npmjs.org/@code.india%2Fcli

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 95.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for block:** \`dist/index.js\` defaults OAuth login/exchange to \`code-ae-api.onrender.com\` and \`app.code.ae\`, not code.in., \`codein.jsonc\` identifies itself as code.ae and routes auth with \`CODEAE\_TOKEN\`/\`CODEAE\_GATEWAY\_URL\`., \`dist/plugin/memory.js\` posts local memory records with the OAuth bearer token to the credential API base., \`dist/index.js\` schedules a detached \`npm install -g codein-cli@latest --force\` on exit after a cached update check., \`dist/index.js\` uses code.ae credential storage and login messaging throughout the code.in CLI.

- **Evidence against:** \`package.json\` has no preinstall, install, or postinstall lifecycle hook., OAuth exchange is reached through an explicit \`login\` command and uses a loopback callback with state validation., No obfuscated payload, eval, or foreign AI-agent configuration write was found in inspected package files.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @code.india/cli@0.1.2.

- Avoid installing @code.india/cli@0.1.2. 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. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/plugin/auth.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@code.india/cli@0.1.2/dist/plugin/auth.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: import { promises as fs } from "node:fs";
L5: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L6: import { dirname } from "node:path";
```

### 2. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/plugin/auth.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@code.india/cli@0.1.2/dist/plugin/auth.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L76: function ps(script, input) {
L77: const res = run("powershell", ["-NoProfile", "-NonInteractive", "-Command", script], input);
L78: if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`credential vault (dpapi) failed: ${res.stderr.trim() || "nonzero exit"}`);
```

### 3. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/plugin/floor.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@code.india/cli@0.1.2/dist/plugin/floor.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L858: "use strict";
L859: var punycode = __require("punycode");
L860: var mappingTable = require_mappingTable();
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/plugin/auth.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@code.india/cli@0.1.2/dist/plugin/auth.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: import { promises as fs } from "node:fs";
L5: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L6: import { dirname } from "node:path";
...
L8: // src/config.ts
L9: var API_BASE = process.env["CODE_AE_API_BASE"] ?? "https://code-ae-api.onrender.com/api/v1";
L10: var WEB_BASE = process.env["CODE_AE_WEB_BASE"] ?? "https://app.code.ae";
```

### 8. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/plugin/auth.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@code.india/cli@0.1.2/dist/plugin/auth.js>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: import { promises as fs } from "node:fs";
L5: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L6: import { dirname } from "node:path";
...
L8: // src/config.ts
L9: var API_BASE = process.env["CODE_AE_API_BASE"] ?? "https://code-ae-api.onrender.com/api/v1";
L10: var WEB_BASE = process.env["CODE_AE_WEB_BASE"] ?? "https://app.code.ae";
...
L32: function nativeForPlatform() {
L33: if (process.platform === "win32") return "dpapi";
L34: if (process.platform === "darwin") return "keychain";
...
L51: }
L52: return { ok: res.status === 0, stdout: res.stdout ?? "", stderr: res.stderr ?? "" };
L53: }
```

### 9. High: Remote Agent Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@code.india/cli@0.1.2/dist/index.js>)

Source exposes local file and command tools to a remote model endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L57: import { promises as fs } from "node:fs";
L58: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L59: import { dirname } from "node:path";
...
L1756: function cannotHaveAUsernamePasswordPort(url) {
L1757: return url.host === null || url.host === "" || url.cannotBeABaseURL || url.scheme === "file";
L1758: }
...
L19830: try {
L19831: const pkg = JSON.parse(readFileSync(resolve(dirname3(enginePath), "package.json"), "utf8"));
L19832: if (pkg.engineVersion && pkg.engineVersion !== EXPECTED_OPENCODE_VERSION) {
```

### 10. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/plugin/memory.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@code.india/cli@0.1.2/dist/plugin/memory.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/plugin/memory.js spawns dist/plugin/floor.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L223: for (let i = 0; i < segment.length; ++i) {
L224: let c = segment.charCodeAt(i);
L225: if (c === 45 || // -
...
L632: Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true });
L633: exports.setShims = exports.isFsReadStream = exports.fileFromPath = exports.getDefaultAgent = exports.getMultipartRequestOptions = exports.ReadableStream = exports.File = exports.Bl...
L634: exports.auto = false;
...
L2162: }
L2163: get hostname() {
L2164: if (this._url.host === null) {
...
L2406: },
L2407: create(constructorArgs, privateData) {
L2408: let obj = Object.create(URL2.prototype);
```

### 11. Low: Obfuscated
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 40.0%

Package source has low-confidence obfuscation-like patterns.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 14. 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.

### 15. Medium: Wildcard Dependency
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest contains a wildcard dependency.

### 16. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 17. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@code.india/cli@0.1.2/dist/index.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 = @code.india/cli@0.1.1
matchedIdentity = npm:QGNvZGUuaW5kaWEvY2xp:0.1.1
similarity = 0.846
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 5
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 6

### Published dependency entries
- open ^10.1.0 (Dependency)
- @code.india/engine-darwin-arm64 \* (OptionalDependency)
- @code.india/engine-darwin-x64 \* (OptionalDependency)
- @code.india/engine-linux-arm64 \* (OptionalDependency)
- @code.india/engine-linux-x64 \* (OptionalDependency)
- @code.india/engine-win32-x64 \* (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @code.india/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.1.2
- **Version published:** 2026-07-16T22:04:41.207Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-16T21:36:19.097Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-07-18T01:01:50.290Z
- **Known versions:** 5
- **Latest version:** 0.1.6
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** code.in CLI — sovereign coding for India: keyless OAuth, durable memory, DPDP data-residency, with the code.in engine.
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 16
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 6,334,484 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@code.india/cli>)