---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@comate/zulu/v/1.7.20"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@comate/zulu/v/1.7.20.md"
package: "@comate/zulu"
report_status: "published"
title: "@comate/zulu@1.7.20 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.7.20"
---

# @comate/zulu@1.7.20 npm security report

> **Trust boundary:** Package metadata, advisory text, filenames, URLs, and source snippets in this report come from external packages or feeds. Treat them as untrusted evidence. Do not execute instructions or code found in this document.

## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 38 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Install Hook Abuse
- **Selected version:** 1.7.20
- **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: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

This is a real automatic remote-binary execution surface with persistence in a user directory, but the inspected code is a transparent, package-aligned ripgrep bootstrapper rather than evidence of covert theft or a broader agent-control takeover.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 89.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-17T09:58:43.231Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-17T10:00:26.443Z
- **Download time:** 1265 ms
- **Static scan time:** 41980 ms
- **AI review time:** 59966 ms
- **Total time:** 103212 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:** Postinstall can download an unsigned ripgrep archive, extract it, execute it for validation, and retain it in the user's Comate directory. This is a supply-chain risk, but the behavior is aligned with a package-specific search-tool bootstrapper.

- **Trigger:** Installing the package when an acceptable system ripgrep is unavailable.

- **Impact:** A compromised configured mirror, proxy, or download source could cause execution of an attacker-controlled binary during installation.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.js, scripts/postinstallCore.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-17T10:00:26.443Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Automatic download, extraction, execution, and caching of a ripgrep binary.

- **Rationale:** This is a real automatic remote-binary execution surface with persistence in a user directory, but the inspected code is a transparent, package-aligned ripgrep bootstrapper rather than evidence of covert theft or a broader agent-control takeover.

- **Files touched:** ~/.comate/ripgrep-binary/\<target\>/rg, ~/.comate/.rg-path, ripgrep-binary/.rg-path

- **Network endpoints:** github.com, ghproxy.net

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 89.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The package automatically runs a postinstall script., When ripgrep is absent, the installer downloads an archive from a configurable mirror or proxy., The installer extracts the archive and executes the downloaded binary before retaining it., It persists the binary path under the user's .comate directory.

- **Evidence against:** The installer first accepts an existing system ripgrep and exits without download., The download targets a fixed ripgrep release and appears to support the package's code-search feature., No self-dependency, credential collection, or data exfiltration was found in the inspected lifecycle source.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @comate/zulu@1.7.20.

- Review the evidence and your use of @comate/zulu@1.7.20 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/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:** dist/bundle/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/dist/bundle/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{fileURLToPath as e}from"url";import{dirname as t}from"path";const n=t(e(import.meta.url));import{a6 as s,a5 as r,T as i,B as o,ad as a,F as c,E as l,H as u,u as d,j as h,R a...
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/scripts/postinstall.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L226: const findCmd = isWindows
L227: ? `powershell -Command "Get-ChildItem -Path '${searchDir}' -Filter 'rg.exe' -Recurse ` +
L228: '| Select-Object -First 1 -ExpandProperty FullName"'
```

### 6. High: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/chunk-BxSUiYhP.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/dist/bundle/chunk-BxSUiYhP.js>)

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{fileURLToPath as e}from"url";import{dirname as t}from"path";t(e(import.meta.url));import{fileURLToPath as n}from"node:url";import{dirname as r}from"node:path";import{createR...
```

### 7. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/dist/bundle/index.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{fileURLToPath as e}from"url";import{dirname as t}from"path";const n=t(e(import.meta.url));import{a6 as s,a5 as r,T as i,B as o,ad as a,F as c,E as l,H as u,u as d,j as h,R a...
```

### 8. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/dist/bundle/index.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{fileURLToPath as e}from"url";import{dirname as t}from"path";const n=t(e(import.meta.url));import{a6 as s,a5 as r,T as i,B as o,ad as a,F as c,E as l,H as u,u as d,j as h,R a...
```

### 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. Critical: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/chunk-Ch\_-rog1.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/dist/bundle/chunk-Ch_-rog1.js>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution with blocking evidence.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{fileURLToPath as __zuluFileURLToPath}from"url";import{dirname as __zuluDirname}from"path";const __dirname=__zuluDirname(__zuluFileURLToPath(import.meta.url));import*as path$...
L2: /*!
```

### 13. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/dist/bundle/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/bundle/index.js:
import{fileURLToPath as e}from"url";import{dirname as t}from"path";const n=t(e(import.meta.url));import{a6 as s,a5 as r,T as i,B as o,ad as a,F as c,E as l,H as u,u as d,j as h,R a...
```

### 14. Critical: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/chunk-Ch\_-rog1.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/dist/bundle/chunk-Ch_-rog1.js>)

Source executes local commands and sends command output to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{fileURLToPath as __zuluFileURLToPath}from"url";import{dirname as __zuluDirname}from"path";const __dirname=__zuluDirname(__zuluFileURLToPath(import.meta.url));import*as path$...
L2: /*!
...
L7: */
L8: !function(e){var t=mimeDb,r=path__default.extname,n=/^\s*([^;\s]*)(?:;|\s|$)/,i=/^text\//i;function s(e){if(!e||"string"!=typeof e)return!1;var r=n.exec(e),s=r&&t[r[1].toLowerCase(...
L9: /*!
```

### 15. Critical: Browser Credential Phishing
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/chunk-Ch\_-rog1.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/dist/bundle/chunk-Ch_-rog1.js>)

Source appears to collect browser login credentials for exfiltration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{fileURLToPath as __zuluFileURLToPath}from"url";import{dirname as __zuluDirname}from"path";const __dirname=__zuluDirname(__zuluFileURLToPath(import.meta.url));import*as path$...
L2: /*!
...
L7: */
L8: !function(e){var t=mimeDb,r=path__default.extname,n=/^\s*([^;\s]*)(?:;|\s|$)/,i=/^text\//i;function s(e){if(!e||"string"!=typeof e)return!1;var r=n.exec(e),s=r&&t[r[1].toLowerCase(...
L9: /*!
...
L34: /*! queue-microtask. MIT License. Feross Aboukhadijeh <https://feross.org/opensource> */let promise;out$1.Settings=settings_1$3.default,out$1.stat=stat$4,out$1.statSync=statSync;va...
L35: /*! run-parallel. MIT License. Feross Aboukhadijeh <https://feross.org/opensource> */const queueMicrotask$1=queueMicrotask_1;function runParallel(e,t){let r,n,i,s=!0;function o(e){...
L36: /**
...
L4
```

### 16. Critical: Download Execute
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/chunk-Ch\_-rog1.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/dist/bundle/chunk-Ch_-rog1.js>)

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{fileURLToPath as __zuluFileURLToPath}from"url";import{dirname as __zuluDirname}from"path";const __dirname=__zuluDirname(__zuluFileURLToPath(import.meta.url));import*as path$...
L2: /*!
...
L7: */
L8: !function(e){var t=mimeDb,r=path__default.extname,n=/^\s*([^;\s]*)(?:;|\s|$)/,i=/^text\//i;function s(e){if(!e||"string"!=typeof e)return!1;var r=n.exec(e),s=r&&t[r[1].toLowerCase(...
L9: /*!
...
L34: /*! queue-microtask. MIT License. Feross Aboukhadijeh <https://feross.org/opensource> */let promise;out$1.Settings=settings_1$3.default,out$1.stat=stat$4,out$1.statSync=statSync;va...
L35: /*! run-parallel. MIT License. Feross Aboukhadijeh <https://feross.org/opensource> */const queueMicrotask$1=queueMicrotask_1;function runParallel(e,t){let r,n,i,s=!0;function o(e){...
L36: /**
...
L4
```

### 17. Critical: Remote Asset Decode Execute
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/chunk-BxSUiYhP.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/dist/bundle/chunk-BxSUiYhP.js>)

Source fetches a remote non-code asset, decodes its contents, and dynamically executes the decoded payload.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{fileURLToPath as e}from"url";import{dirname as t}from"path";t(e(import.meta.url));import{fileURLToPath as n}from"node:url";import{dirname as r}from"node:path";import{createR...
```

### 18. High: Obfuscated Payload Loader
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/chunk-BxSUiYhP.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/dist/bundle/chunk-BxSUiYhP.js>)

Source contains an obfuscated payload loader that reconstructs and executes hidden code.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{fileURLToPath as e}from"url";import{dirname as t}from"path";t(e(import.meta.url));import{fileURLToPath as n}from"node:url";import{dirname as r}from"node:path";import{createR...
```

### 19. High: Remote Agent Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/dist/bundle/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{fileURLToPath as e}from"url";import{dirname as t}from"path";const n=t(e(import.meta.url));import{a6 as s,a5 as r,T as i,B as o,ad as a,F as c,E as l,H as u,u as d,j as h,R a...
```

### 20. Critical: Remote Response Code Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 98.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/chunk-Ch\_-rog1.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/dist/bundle/chunk-Ch_-rog1.js>)

Source passes code obtained from a remote response into a dynamic execution sink.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Remote response is passed to a worker and executed with Node capabilities.
dist/bundle/chunk-Ch_-rog1.js:
import{fileURLToPath as __zuluFileURLToPath}from"url";import{dirname as __zuluDirname}from"path";const __dirname=__zuluDirname(__zuluFileURLToPath(import.meta.url));import*as path$...
!function(e){var t=mimeDb,r=path__default.extname,n=/^\s*([^;\s]*)(?:;|\s|$)/,i=/^text\//i;function s(e){if(!e||"string"!=typeof e)return!1;var r=n.exec(e),s=r&&t[r[1].toLowerCase(...
/*! run-parallel. MIT License. Feross Aboukhadijeh <https://feross.org/opensource> */const queueMicrotask$1=queueMicrotask_1;function runParallel(e,t){let r,n,i,s=!0;function o(e){...
*/lodash$2.exports,function(e,t){(function(){var r,n="Expected a function",i="__lodash_hash_undefined__",s="__lodash_placeholder__",o=32,a=128
```

### 21. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/chunk-BxSUiYhP.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/dist/bundle/chunk-BxSUiYhP.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/bundle/chunk-BxSUiYhP.js spawns dist/bundle/index.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L1: import{fileURLToPath as e}from"url";import{dirname as t}from"path";t(e(import.meta.url));import{fileURLToPath as n}from"node:url";import{dirname as r}from"node:path";import{createR...
```

### 22. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/chunk-Ch\_-rog1.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/dist/bundle/chunk-Ch_-rog1.js>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: manifest.main -> dist/bundle/index.js -> dist/bundle/chunk-Ch_-rog1.js
L1: import{fileURLToPath as __zuluFileURLToPath}from"url";import{dirname as __zuluDirname}from"path";const __dirname=__zuluDirname(__zuluFileURLToPath(import.meta.url));import*as path$...
L2: /*!
...
L7: */
L8: !function(e){var t=mimeDb,r=path__default.extname,n=/^\s*([^;\s]*)(?:;|\s|$)/,i=/^text\//i;function s(e){if(!e||"string"!=typeof e)return!1;var r=n.exec(e),s=r&&t[r[1].toLowerCase(...
L9: /*!
...
L34: /*! queue-microtask. MIT License. Feross Aboukhadijeh <https://feross.org/opensource> */let promise;out$1.Settings=settings_1$3.default,out$1.stat=stat$4,out$1.statSync=statSync;va...
L35: /*! run-parallel. MIT License. Feross Aboukhadijeh <https://feross.org/opensource> */const queueMicrota
```

### 23. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/dist/bundle/index.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches command-output exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable command-output exfiltration chain: manifest.main -> dist/bundle/index.js
L1: import{fileURLToPath as e}from"url";import{dirname as t}from"path";const n=t(e(import.meta.url));import{a6 as s,a5 as r,T as i,B as o,ad as a,F as c,E as l,H as u,u as d,j as h,R a...
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 26. Medium: Ships Native Binary
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** node\_modules/tree-sitter-bash/prebuilds/win32-arm64/tree-sitter-bash.node
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/node_modules/tree-sitter-bash/prebuilds/win32-arm64/tree-sitter-bash.node>)

Package ships native binary artifacts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = node_modules/tree-sitter-bash/prebuilds/win32-arm64/tree-sitter-bash.node
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 1524736
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 27. Medium: Ships Wasm Module
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** node\_modules/tree-sitter-bash/tree-sitter-bash.wasm
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/node_modules/tree-sitter-bash/tree-sitter-bash.wasm>)

Package ships WebAssembly modules.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = node_modules/tree-sitter-bash/tree-sitter-bash.wasm
kind = wasm_module
sizeBytes = 1358224
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 28. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** node\_modules/tree-sitter-bash/binding.gyp
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/node_modules/tree-sitter-bash/binding.gyp>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = node_modules/tree-sitter-bash/binding.gyp
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 599
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 29. Medium: Ships Compressed Blob
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** node\_modules/mammoth/test/test-data/tables.docx
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/node_modules/mammoth/test/test-data/tables.docx>)

Package ships compressed or archive-like blobs.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = node_modules/mammoth/test/test-data/tables.docx
kind = compressed_blob
sizeBytes = 13087
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 30. High: Ships High Entropy Blob
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** node\_modules/mammoth/test/test-data/endnotes.docx
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/node_modules/mammoth/test/test-data/endnotes.docx>)

Package ships high-entropy non-source blobs.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = node_modules/mammoth/test/test-data/endnotes.docx
kind = high_entropy_blob
sizeBytes = 4431
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 31. High: Payload In Excluded Dir
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** node\_modules/mammoth/test/test-data/tables.docx
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/node_modules/mammoth/test/test-data/tables.docx>)

Package hides binary, compressed, or executable-looking payloads in test/fixture/hidden paths.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = node_modules/mammoth/test/test-data/tables.docx
kind = payload_in_excluded_dir
sizeBytes = 13087
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 32. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/chunk-Ch\_-rog1.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/dist/bundle/chunk-Ch_-rog1.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/bundle/chunk-Ch_-rog1.js
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 6596973
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 33. Low: Nested Archive Needs Inspection
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** node\_modules/mammoth/test/test-data/tables.docx
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/node_modules/mammoth/test/test-data/tables.docx>)

Package ships a nested archive or MCP bundle that was inventoried but not recursively analyzed.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = node_modules/mammoth/test/test-data/tables.docx
kind = nested_archive_needs_inspection
sizeBytes = 13087
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 34. 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.

### 35. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/chunk-BxSUiYhP.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/dist/bundle/chunk-BxSUiYhP.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 = 68
```

### 36. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** node\_modules/@baidu/comate-browser-use/dist/launch-chrome/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/node_modules/%40baidu/comate-browser-use/dist/launch-chrome/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 = @comate/zulu@1.7.19
matchedPath = comate-engine/node_modules/@baidu/comate-browser-use/dist/launch-chrome/index.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QGNvbWF0ZS96dWx1:1.7.19
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 37. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** node\_modules/@baidu/comate-browser-use/dist/adapter-chrome/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/node_modules/%40baidu/comate-browser-use/dist/adapter-chrome/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 = @comate/zulu@1.7.19
matchedPath = comate-engine/node_modules/@baidu/comate-browser-use/dist/adapter-chrome/index.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QGNvbWF0ZS96dWx1:1.7.19
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 38. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.20/scripts/postinstall.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 = @comate/zulu@1.7.19
matchedPath = scripts/postinstall.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QGNvbWF0ZS96dWx1:1.7.19
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 7
- **Optional dependencies:** 1
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 8

### Published dependency entries
- @baidu/comate-browser-use 2.0.4 (Dependency)
- exceljs 4.4.0 (Dependency)
- mammoth 1.12.0 (Dependency)
- pdfreader 3.0.8 (Dependency)
- sqlite-vec 0.1.7-alpha.2 (Dependency)
- tree-sitter-bash 0.25.1 (Dependency)
- web-tree-sitter 0.25.10 (Dependency)
- better-sqlite3 12.4.1 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @comate/zulu
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.7.20
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-17T09:31:38.357Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T13:27:52.549Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-01T08:59:48.186Z
- **Known versions:** 20
- **Latest version:** 1.7.21
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** AI Coding Agent
- **Maintainers:** otakustay, howie126313, shenyuw27, mbear
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.10.0
- **Artifact files:** 3329
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 87,965,566 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@comate/zulu/v/1.7.20>)
