---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@extenshi/cli/v/0.18.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@extenshi/cli/v/0.18.0.md"
package: "@extenshi/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@extenshi/cli@0.18.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.18.0"
---

# @extenshi/cli@0.18.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 16 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:** 0.18.0
- **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.

No malicious payload execution, secret harvesting, self-dependency chain, or broad control-surface mutation was found. However, an automatic postinstall telemetry hook with persistent identification and default-on runtime consent warrants a warning.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 84.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-11T12:54:27.285Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-11T12:56:18.484Z
- **Download time:** 759 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1229 ms
- **AI review time:** 109210 ms
- **Total time:** 111199 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:** On installation, the package conditionally sends an install telemetry event and may write an identifier to the Extenshi home-directory configuration. The scan command deliberately uploads the user-selected artifact and configured API key.

- **Trigger:** npm installation on a machine with telemetry already enabled; or an explicit extenshi scan command

- **Impact:** Persistent install tracking after recorded consent; selected extension contents and scan credentials leave the machine when scanning.

- **Evidence paths:** scripts/postinstall.cjs, dist/telemetry-consent.js, dist/cli.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-11T12:56:18.484Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** postinstall telemetry and user-invoked artifact upload

- **Rationale:** No malicious payload execution, secret harvesting, self-dependency chain, or broad control-surface mutation was found. However, an automatic postinstall telemetry hook with persistent identification and default-on runtime consent warrants a warning.

- **Files touched:** scripts/postinstall.cjs, ~/.extenshi/config.json, dist/cli.js, dist/scan.js

- **Network endpoints:** https://eu.i.posthog.com, https://scan.extenshi.io

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 84.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** Installation automatically runs a package script., That script reads a home-directory configuration, can create a persistent anonymous identifier, and posts an install event., The telemetry prompt accepts an empty response as enabled., The CLI uploads a supplied extension artifact and API key to its scan service.

- **Evidence against:** The install script exits unless the existing configuration has telemetry set to true., No self-dependency, shell payload download, code evaluation, or foreign agent-control-surface mutation was found., Artifact upload occurs only through the explicit scan command.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @extenshi/cli@0.18.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @extenshi/cli@0.18.0 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/@extenshi/cli@0.18.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@extenshi/cli@0.18.0/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 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. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** dist/review-checks.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@extenshi/cli@0.18.0/dist/review-checks.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L252: // A pre-publish "will the store reject this?" gate must only flag what the
L253: // developer can act on AND what the store actually rejects. eval()/new Function()
L254: // and dynamic-<script> patterns inside a bundled third-party library (webpack
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/auto-update.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@extenshi/cli@0.18.0/dist/auto-update.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L25: try {
L26: const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
L27: const pkg = require('../package.json');
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 13. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 90.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 15. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@extenshi/cli@0.18.0/dist/cli.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 = 7
```

### 16. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@extenshi/cli@0.18.0/dist/cli.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 = @extenshi/cli@0.15.2
matchedIdentity = npm:QGV4dGVuc2hpL2NsaQ:0.15.2
similarity = 0.853
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 9
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 4
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 9

### Published dependency entries
- @extenshi/publisher ^0.8.0 (Dependency)
- chalk ^5.3.0 (Dependency)
- commander ^12.1.0 (Dependency)
- jszip ^3.10.1 (Dependency)
- ora ^8.1.1 (Dependency)
- posthog-node ^5.35.1 (Dependency)
- semver ^7.6.3 (Dependency)
- undici ^7.29.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^3.25.76 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @extenshi/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.18.0
- **Version published:** 2026-09-10T23:31:52.698Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-17T21:57:55.625Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T12:53:22.824Z
- **Known versions:** 33
- **Latest version:** 0.44.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Pre-publish security scanner for browser extensions
- **Maintainers:** maxstone
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 154
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,029,679 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@extenshi/cli/v/0.18.0>)