---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@costrict/csc/v/4.2.15"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@costrict/csc/v/4.2.15.md"
package: "@costrict/csc"
report_status: "published"
title: "@costrict/csc@4.2.15 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "4.2.15"
---

# @costrict/csc@4.2.15 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 17 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 4.2.15
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

Static analysis flagged 17 finding(s) at 72.0% confidence. This version is warn-only unless an AI or security-team review confirms malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-17T11:42:40.856Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-17T11:42:42.025Z
- **Download time:** 1019 ms
- **Static scan time:** 148 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 1169 ms

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@costrict/csc@4.2.15/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/run-parallel.mjs scripts/postinstall.cjs scripts/setup-chrome-mcp.mjs scripts/install-cosknow.mjs
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@costrict/csc@4.2.15/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/run-parallel.mjs scripts/postinstall.cjs scripts/setup-chrome-mcp.mjs scripts/install-cosknow.mjs
```

### 3. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** scripts/install-cosknow.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@costrict/csc@4.2.15/scripts/install-cosknow.mjs>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L21: try {
L22: const mod = await import(pathToFileURL(join(globalPrefix, '@costrict', 'cosknow', 'dist', 'index.js')).href)
L23: install = mod.install
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 9. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@costrict/csc@4.2.15/scripts/postinstall.cjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L15: require("fs")
L16: const { spawn, spawnSync } = require("child_process")
L17: const { setDefaultResultOrder } = require("node:dns")
L18: const path = require("path")
...
L32: const MIRROR_RELEASE_BASE = `https://ghproxy.net/https://github.com/microsoft/ripgrep-prebuilt/releases/download/v${RG_VERSION}`
L33: const RELEASE_BASE = (process.env.RIPGREP_DOWNLOAD_BASE ?? DEFAULT_RELEASE_BASE).replace(/\/$/, "")
L34: // costrict change: fallback to private registry when GitHub and ghproxy are both unreachable
L35: const COSTRICT_PRIVATE_BASE = "https://shenma.sangfor.com.cn/costrict-cli/pkg/ripgrep"
...
L42: function getPlatformMapping() {
L43: const arch = process.arch
L44: const platform = process.platform
...
L119: // csc.ps1 before csc.cmd, and enterprise ExecutionPolicy often blocks .ps
```

### 10. High: Install Named Payload File
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@costrict/csc@4.2.15/scripts/postinstall.cjs>)

Install-named source file stages remote content through filesystem writes and execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L15: require("fs")
L16: const { spawn, spawnSync } = require("child_process")
L17: const { setDefaultResultOrder } = require("node:dns")
L18: const path = require("path")
...
L32: const MIRROR_RELEASE_BASE = `https://ghproxy.net/https://github.com/microsoft/ripgrep-prebuilt/releases/download/v${RG_VERSION}`
L33: const RELEASE_BASE = (process.env.RIPGREP_DOWNLOAD_BASE ?? DEFAULT_RELEASE_BASE).replace(/\/$/, "")
L34: // costrict change: fallback to private registry when GitHub and ghproxy are both unreachable
L35: const COSTRICT_PRIVATE_BASE = "https://shenma.sangfor.com.cn/costrict-cli/pkg/ripgrep"
...
L42: function getPlatformMapping() {
L43: const arch = process.arch
L44: const platform = process.platform
...
L119: // csc.ps1 before csc.cmd, and enterprise ExecutionPolicy often blocks .ps
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 13. Medium: Ships Native Binary
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/vendor/audio-capture/x64-darwin/audio-capture.node
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@costrict/csc@4.2.15/dist/vendor/audio-capture/x64-darwin/audio-capture.node>)

Package ships native binary artifacts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dist/vendor/audio-capture/x64-darwin/audio-capture.node
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 439076
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 14. High: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@costrict/csc@4.2.15/dist/cli.js>)

Package contains source files above the static scanner size ceiling.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/cli.js
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 33886780
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 15. Medium: Oversized Cli Entrypoint
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@costrict/csc@4.2.15/dist/cli.js>)

Package contains an oversized executable-looking CLI entrypoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/cli.js
kind = oversized_cli_entrypoint
sizeBytes = 33886780
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 16. 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.

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepare, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 12
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 131
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 12

### Published dependency entries
- @agentclientprotocol/sdk ^0.19.2 (Dependency)
- @anthropic-ai/sandbox-runtime ^0.0.54 (Dependency)
- @claude-code-best/mcp-chrome-bridge ^2.0.9 (Dependency)
- @protobufjs/utf8 1.1.1 (Dependency)
- baseline-browser-mapping 2.10.29 (Dependency)
- gray-matter ^4.0.3 (Dependency)
- hono ^4.12.26 (Dependency)
- partial-json ^0.1.7 (Dependency)
- pngjs 5.0.0 (Dependency)
- semver ^7.8.4 (Dependency)
- undici ^7.28.0 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.21.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @costrict/csc
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 4.2.15
- **Version published:** 2026-07-17T11:41:47.280Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T09:50:04.878Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-08T04:48:09.048Z
- **Known versions:** 7
- **Latest version:** 4.2.26
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** costrict
- **Author:** costrict
- **Maintainers:** zgsm
- **Keywords:** csc, CoStrict, cli, ai, coding-assistant, terminal, repl
- **Runtime engines:** bun: \>=1.2.0
- **Artifact files:** 16
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 42,346,115 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@costrict/csc/v/4.2.15>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/y574444354/csc>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/y574444354/csc#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/y574444354/csc/issues>)