---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@factiii/runner/v/0.9.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@factiii/runner/v/0.9.1.md"
package: "@factiii/runner"
report_status: "published"
title: "@factiii/runner@0.9.1 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.9.1"
---

# @factiii/runner@0.9.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as AI-agent capability risk** — Allowed by default with warning: agent-facing configuration or capability changes need review before use.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only AI-agent capability risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** AI-agent capability abuse
- **Selected version:** 0.9.1
- **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.

Source supports a dangerous remote AI-agent runner, not a covert malicious package. Flag as a warning because of the high-impact capability, while the scanner's install-time and exfiltration claims are not substantiated.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-14T15:36:41.735Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-14T15:37:53.311Z
- **Download time:** 1266 ms
- **Static scan time:** 20412 ms
- **AI review time:** 49896 ms
- **Total time:** 71576 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:** Explicitly started runner connects to Factiii and can launch AI-agent terminal sessions on the paired machine. This is an intentional but high-impact remote-agent capability; no install-time attack was confirmed.

- **Trigger:** User runs setup/connect and then start after browser pairing.

- **Impact:** A paired account/client can cause configured AI-agent work and terminal interaction within authorized board scope.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, README.md, dist/cli.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-14T15:37:53.311Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Paired WebRTC/Socket.IO control plane launches and relays agent terminal sessions.

- **Rationale:** Source supports a dangerous remote AI-agent runner, not a covert malicious package. Flag as a warning because of the high-impact capability, while the scanner's install-time and exfiltration claims are not substantiated.

- **Files touched:** dist/cli.js, ~/.factiii-runner/config.json

- **Network endpoints:** https://api.factiii.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 86.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** Runs a long-lived remote AI-agent runner on the user's machine., Starts Codex or Claude sessions; Claude is invoked with auto permission mode., Connects to the configured server using a stored runner token., Remote actions are scope-checked, but the package exposes high-impact agent and terminal capability.

- **Evidence against:** No preinstall, install, or postinstall lifecycle hook; only prepublishOnly is present., Pairing and daemon start require explicit CLI commands., The default endpoint is the package-aligned Factiii API, and no unrelated exfiltration endpoint was found.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @factiii/runner@0.9.1.

- Review the evidence and your use of @factiii/runner@0.9.1 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. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. Medium: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.9.1/dist/cli.js>)

Package contains a possible secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = generic_password
severity = medium
line = 13778
matchedText = url2.pas...ic";
```

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.9.1/dist/cli.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L964: var EventEmitter = require("node:events").EventEmitter;
L965: var childProcess = require("node:child_process");
L966: var path15 = require("node:path");
```

### 5. High: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** index/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.9.1/index/index.js>)

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8332: try {
L8333: render = new Function(argument, "_", source);
L8334: } catch (e) {
```

### 6. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.9.1/dist/cli.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L38: * Constructs the CommanderError class
L39: * @param {number} exitCode suggested exit code which could be used with process.exit
L40: * @param {string} code an id string representing the error
...
L964: var EventEmitter = require("node:events").EventEmitter;
L965: var childProcess = require("node:child_process");
L966: var path15 = require("node:path");
...
L1013: this._outputConfiguration = {
L1014: writeOut: (str) => process2.stdout.write(str),
L1015: writeErr: (str) => process2.stderr.write(str),
...
L1049: * @returns {Command[]}
L1050: * @private
L1051: */
```

### 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. Critical: Hardcoded Runtime Data Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.9.1/dist/cli.js>)

Source sends credentials or rich application records to a package-controlled external receiver enabled by default.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Source sends the broad process environment to a literal external destination.
L38: * Constructs the CommanderError class
L39: * @param {number} exitCode suggested exit code which could be used with process.exit
L40: * @param {string} code an id string representing the error
...
L964: var EventEmitter = require("node:events").EventEmitter;
L965: var childProcess = require("node:child_process");
L966: var path15 = require("node:path");
...
L1013: this._outputConfiguration = {
L1014: writeOut: (str) => process2.stdout.write(str),
L1015: writeErr: (str) => process2.stderr.write(str),
...
L1049: * @returns {Command[]}
L1050: * @private
L1051: */
```

### 11. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.9.1/dist/cli.js>)

Source appears to send environment or credential material to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L38: * Constructs the CommanderError class
L39: * @param {number} exitCode suggested exit code which could be used with process.exit
L40: * @param {string} code an id string representing the error
...
L964: var EventEmitter = require("node:events").EventEmitter;
L965: var childProcess = require("node:child_process");
L966: var path15 = require("node:path");
...
L1013: this._outputConfiguration = {
L1014: writeOut: (str) => process2.stdout.write(str),
L1015: writeErr: (str) => process2.stderr.write(str),
...
L1049: * @returns {Command[]}
L1050: * @private
L1051: */
```

### 12. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.9.1/dist/cli.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/cli.js:
headers["Authorization"] = "Basic " + authBuf.toString("base64");
fs13.writeFileSync(syncFile, "", "utf8");
var execString = "var http = require('http'), https = require('https'), fs = require('fs');var doRequest = http" + (ssl ? "s" : "") + ".request;var options = " + JSON.stringify(opt...
delete opts.headers.authorization;
if (opts.auth && !options.headers.authorization) {
options.headers.authorization = "Basic " + Buffer.from(opts.auth).toString("base64");
var import_readline = __toESM(require("readline"));
const rl = import_readline.default.createInterface({
```

### 13. High: Entrypoint Foreign Package Code Overwrite
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.9.1/dist/cli.js>)

Manifest-reachable source overwrites another installed package with package-defined remote behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source resolves another installed package, overwrites its runtime code, and injects package-defined remote behavior.
dist/cli.js:
// node_modules/commander/lib/error.js
"node_modules/commander/lib/error.js"(exports2) {
// node_modules/commander/lib/argument.js
"node_modules/commander/lib/argument.js"(exports2) {
// node_modules/commander/lib/help.js
"node_modules/commander/lib/help.js"(exports2) {
// node_modules/commander/lib/option.js
"node_modules/commander/lib/option.js"(exports2) {
```

### 14. High: Remote Agent Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** index/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.9.1/index/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L41737: if (e) return e.href;
L41738: F(`Invalid absolute docBaseUrl: "${t}".`);
L41739: }
...
L87860: *
L87861: * This can be used by clients to improve the LLM's understanding of available tools, resources, etc. It can be thought of like a "hint" to the model. For example, this information ...
L87862: */
```

### 15. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.9.1/dist/cli.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/cli.js spawns index/index.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L38: * Constructs the CommanderError class
L39: * @param {number} exitCode suggested exit code which could be used with process.exit
L40: * @param {string} code an id string representing the error
...
L964: var EventEmitter = require("node:events").EventEmitter;
L965: var childProcess = require("node:child_process");
L966: var path15 = require("node:path");
...
L1013: this._outputConfiguration = {
L1014: writeOut: (str) => process2.stdout.write(str),
L1015: writeErr: (str) => process2.stderr.write(str),
...
L1049: * @returns {Command[]}
L1050: * @private
L1051: */
```

### 16. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.9.1/dist/cli.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: scripts.start -> dist/cli.js
L38: * Constructs the CommanderError class
L39: * @param {number} exitCode suggested exit code which could be used with process.exit
L40: * @param {string} code an id string representing the error
...
L964: var EventEmitter = require("node:events").EventEmitter;
L965: var childProcess = require("node:child_process");
L966: var path15 = require("node:path");
...
L1013: this._outputConfiguration = {
L1014: writeOut: (str) => process2.stdout.write(str),
L1015: writeErr: (str) => process2.stderr.write(str),
...
L1049: * @returns {Command[]}
L1050: * @private
L1051: */
```

### 17. High: Trigger Reachable Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.9.1/dist/cli.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable credential exfiltration chain: scripts.start -> dist/cli.js
L38: * Constructs the CommanderError class
L39: * @param {number} exitCode suggested exit code which could be used with process.exit
L40: * @param {string} code an id string representing the error
...
L964: var EventEmitter = require("node:events").EventEmitter;
L965: var childProcess = require("node:child_process");
L966: var path15 = require("node:path");
...
L1013: this._outputConfiguration = {
L1014: writeOut: (str) => process2.stdout.write(str),
L1015: writeErr: (str) => process2.stderr.write(str),
...
L1049: * @returns {Command[]}
L1050: * @private
L1051: */
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 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:** vendor/frpc-linux-amd64
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.9.1/vendor/frpc-linux-amd64>)

Package ships native binary artifacts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = vendor/frpc-linux-amd64
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 16453816
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. Medium: Wildcard Dependency
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest contains a wildcard dependency.

### 23. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** index/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.9.1/index/index.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 = 2
```

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

### Published dependency entries
- node-datachannel ^0.12.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @factiii/runner
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.9.1
- **License:** ISC
- **Version published:** 2026-08-14T15:29:11.914Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T01:18:58.504Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-22T22:33:07.705Z
- **Known versions:** 34
- **Latest version:** 0.28.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Factiii Runner, run Board AI agents on a machine you control. Pairs with the Factiii web/mobile clients over WebRTC.
- **Maintainers:** hammad387, jsnyder10, shyam415
- **Keywords:** factiii, runner, claude, ai, agent, webrtc, cli
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 9
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 67,713,449 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@factiii/runner/v/0.9.1>)
- [Homepage](<https://factiii.com/>)
