---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@grovetech/defender/v/0.24.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@grovetech/defender/v/0.24.0.md"
package: "@grovetech/defender"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "@grovetech/defender@0.24.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.24.0"
---

# @grovetech/defender@0.24.0 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:** Under Review
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.24.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

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.

Static analysis flagged 17 finding(s) at 93.0% 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
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 93.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-13T12:36:36.925Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-13T12:36:39.783Z
- **Download time:** 1003 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1853 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 2858 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

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

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @grovetech/defender@0.24.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @grovetech/defender@0.24.0 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: Ai Reviewer Manipulation
- **Category:** Social Engineering
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** README.md
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@grovetech/defender@0.24.0/README.md>)

Package text addresses the security reviewer or scanner and tries to influence the review outcome.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```markdown
| AI input | "ignore previous instructions", DAN/jailbreak, token bombs      |
```

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

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/esm/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@grovetech/defender@0.24.0/dist/esm/cli.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L9: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
L10: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L11: import { PII_PATTERNS } from "./patterns.js";
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package source references shell execution.

### 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. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/esm/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@grovetech/defender@0.24.0/dist/esm/cli.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: //   • `defender init [--dry-run] [--yes]` — autodetekuje framework, vloží
L5: //     middleware do entry filu, přidá @grovetech/defender do package.json,
L6: //     vytvoří/upraví .env.example a README.md, doinstaluje balíček.
...
L9: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
L10: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L11: import { PII_PATTERNS } from "./patterns.js";
...
L25: const pkgPath = join(here, "..", "..", "package.json");
L26: const pkg = JSON.parse(readFileSync(pkgPath, "utf8"));
L27: if (pkg.version && /^\d+\.\d+\.\d+/.test(pkg.version))
...
L36: const MAX_FILE_BYTES = 2 * 1024 * 1024;
L37: const DEFAULT_INGEST = "https://grovetechai.com/api/defender/install-telemetry";
L38: function walk(root) {
```

### 10. High: Entrypoint Foreign Package Code Overwrite
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/esm/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@grovetech/defender@0.24.0/dist/esm/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/esm/cli.js:
import { existsSync, mkdirSync, readdirSync, readFileSync, statSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
const SKIP_DIRS = new Set(["node_modules", ".git", ".cache"]);
const DEFAULT_INGEST = "https://grovetechai.com/api/defender/install-telemetry";
writeFileSync(abs, p.after, "utf8");
console.error(`           Manuální návod: https://grovetechai.com/docs/defender#manual`);
console.error(`           Přidejte řádek ručně a spusťte init znovu, nebo postupujte podle https://grovetechai.com/docs/defender#manual`);
console.log(`    1) Získejte API klíč na https://grovetechai.com/defender`);
const base = process.env.GROVETECH_DEFENDER_URL?.replace(/\
```

### 11. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/esm/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@grovetech/defender@0.24.0/dist/esm/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: manifest.bin -> dist/esm/cli.js
L4: //   • `defender init [--dry-run] [--yes]` — autodetekuje framework, vloží
L5: //     middleware do entry filu, přidá @grovetech/defender do package.json,
L6: //     vytvoří/upraví .env.example a README.md, doinstaluje balíček.
...
L9: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
L10: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L11: import { PII_PATTERNS } from "./patterns.js";
...
L25: const pkgPath = join(here, "..", "..", "package.json");
L26: const pkg = JSON.parse(readFileSync(pkgPath, "utf8"));
L27: if (pkg.version && /^\d+\.\d+\.\d+/.test(pkg.version))
...
L36: const MAX_FILE_BYTES = 2 * 1024 * 1024;
L37: const DEFAULT_INGEST = "https://grovetechai.com/api/defender/install-telemetry";
L38: function walk(root) {
```

### 12. High: Trigger Reachable Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/esm/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@grovetech/defender@0.24.0/dist/esm/cli.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable credential exfiltration chain: manifest.bin -> dist/esm/cli.js
L4: //   • `defender init [--dry-run] [--yes]` — autodetekuje framework, vloží
L5: //     middleware do entry filu, přidá @grovetech/defender do package.json,
L6: //     vytvoří/upraví .env.example a README.md, doinstaluje balíček.
...
L9: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
L10: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L11: import { PII_PATTERNS } from "./patterns.js";
...
L25: const pkgPath = join(here, "..", "..", "package.json");
L26: const pkg = JSON.parse(readFileSync(pkgPath, "utf8"));
L27: if (pkg.version && /^\d+\.\d+\.\d+/.test(pkg.version))
...
L36: const MAX_FILE_BYTES = 2 * 1024 * 1024;
L37: const DEFAULT_INGEST = "https://grovetechai.com/api/defender/install-telemetry";
L38: function
```

### 13. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/esm/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@grovetech/defender@0.24.0/dist/esm/cli.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L177: function installPackage(pm, dryRun) {
L178: const cmd = pm === "pnpm" ? "pnpm add @grovetech/defender" :
L179: pm === "yarn" ? "yarn add @grovetech/defender" :
...
L184: const [bin, ...args] = cmd.split(" ");
L185: const r = spawnSync(bin, args, { stdio: "inherit" });
L186: return { ok: r.status === 0, cmd };
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 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. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/cjs/rag.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@grovetech/defender@0.24.0/dist/cjs/rag.cjs>)

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 = @grovetech/defender@0.14.0
matchedIdentity = npm:QGdyb3ZldGVjaC9kZWZlbmRlcg:0.14.0
similarity = 0.662
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

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

### Published dependency entries
- express \>=4 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @grovetech/defender
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.24.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-13T12:14:20.516Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-30T10:52:30.340Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-02T15:53:29.449Z
- **Known versions:** 14
- **Latest version:** 0.33.2
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Active runtime protection for vibe-coded apps — drops in as Express middleware (web + AI layer), blocks prompt injection, PII leaks, and sensitive paths in real time. By Grovetech AI.
- **Author:** Grovetech AI s.r.o.
- **Maintainers:** grovetech
- **Keywords:** security, express, middleware, ai-safety, prompt-injection, pii, runtime-protection, vibe-coding
- **Artifact files:** 122
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 991,099 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@grovetech/defender/v/0.24.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/grovetechai/defender-example>)
- [Homepage](<https://grovetechai.com/defender>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/grovetechai/defender-example/issues>)