--- canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@hmharness/cli/v/0.23.33" markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@hmharness/cli/v/0.23.33.md" package: "@hmharness/cli" report_status: "published" title: "@hmharness/cli@0.23.33 npm security report" verdict: "suspicious" version: "0.23.33" --- # @hmharness/cli@0.23.33 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 12 finding(s) warrant review before installing. - **Verdict:** Suspicious - **Product-default install policy:** Warn - **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list - **Public report status:** Published - **Threat category:** Remote Code Execution - **Selected version:** 0.23.33 - **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 inspection found a conditional command-execution risk in the automatic update fallback: model-proposed commands are incompletely validated before Windows shell execution. The package has no install lifecycle hook, and the inspected behavior does not establish a concrete malicious payload, so a warning is appropriate. ## Latest scan - **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1 - **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious - **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0% - **Started:** 2026-10-18T11:41:16.751Z - **Finished:** 2026-10-18T11:42:23.039Z - **Download time:** 1536 ms - **Static scan time:** 813 ms - **AI review time:** 63938 ms - **Total time:** 66288 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:** A fallback updater can execute a model-proposed command through the Windows command interpreter. Its checks do not rule out shell operators, leaving a conditional command-execution risk. - **Trigger:** A user enters the REPL, an automatic update is attempted, and the standard update launch fails on Windows. - **Impact:** A response containing accepted shell syntax could run additional commands with the user's privileges. - **Evidence paths:** dist/main.js, dist/update-check.js - **Review source:** ai\_review - **Reviewed:** 2026-10-18T11:42:23.039Z ### AI review details - **Review stage:** source\_first\_review - **Mechanism:** The updater asks the configured model for a package-install command, applies a partial text filter, then passes the result to the command interpreter. - **Rationale:** Source inspection found a conditional command-execution risk in the automatic update fallback: model-proposed commands are incompletely validated before Windows shell execution. The package has no install lifecycle hook, and the inspected behavior does not establish a concrete malicious payload, so a warning is appropriate. ### Review decision - **Verdict:** Suspicious - **Confidence:** 91.0% - **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn - **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability - **False-positive risk:** Medium - **Evidence for warning:** The manifest has no install lifecycle hook and lists matching-version first-party dependencies., The REPL starts automatic updates by default; setting its update option to false changes this to notification only., When an automatic update fails, the updater asks the configured model for an installation command using machine details and the error., The command check rejects selected dangerous words and requires a reference to this package, but does not reject shell operators., On Windows, the accepted model response is passed as a command string to the system command interpreter. - **Evidence against:** The risky path requires a failed automatic update and a model response that passes the package-name check., The update feature is scoped to installing this CLI package; the inspected source does not establish a malicious payload or credential transfer. ## Affected versions and remediation This report applies to @hmharness/cli@0.23.33. - Review the evidence and your use of @hmharness/cli@0.23.33 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: Scripts Present - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 100.0% Package declares npm scripts. ### 2. High: Child Process - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 85.0% - **Path:** board/install-kaihongos.cjs - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references child process execution. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L35: const https = require('https'); L36: const { spawnSync } = require('child_process'); L37: ``` ### 3. High: Shell - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 85.0% - **Path:** dist/web-daemon.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references shell execution. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L79: try { L80: const out = execSync(`powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_Process -Filter 'ProcessId=${pid}').CommandLine"`, { encoding: 'utf8', timeout: 8000 }); L81: const cmd = out.trim(); ``` ### 4. Medium: Network - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% Package source references network APIs. ### 5. Medium: Environment Vars - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% Package source references environment variables. ### 6. Low: Filesystem - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 70.0% Package source references filesystem APIs. ### 7. High: Same File Env Network Execution - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 85.0% - **Path:** board/install-kaihongos.cjs - **Public source:** [View source]() A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L339: log('first run: creating config skeleton at ' + HMH_HOME); L340: const r = spawnSync(nodeBin, [path.join(NM, '@hmharness', 'cli', 'dist', 'main.js'), 'init'], { L341: encoding: 'utf8', env: Object.assign({}, process.env, { HMH_HOME, HOME: BOARD_HOME }), L342: }); ... L349: console.log(' 2. hmh check # verify toolchain'); L350: console.log(' 3. hmh tui # or: hmh web start → http://127.0.0.1:7788'); L351: console.log('pitfalls & details: docs/KAIHONGOS.md'); ``` ### 8. High: Copied Package Dependency Bridge - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 83.0% - **Path:** dist/main.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Package metadata claims a different repository identity while copied source loads a runtime dependency bridge. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript package = @hmharness/cli; repositoryIdentity = hmharness; dependency = @hmharness/agent L33: import { harmonyTools } from '@hmharness/domain-harmony'; L34: import { baseTools, buildRegistry, buildSystemPrompt, runAgentTask, strings } from '@hmharness/agent'; L35: const DIM = (s) => `\x1b[2m${s}\x1b[0m`; ``` ### 9. Low: High Entropy Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 55.0% Package source contains high-entropy string patterns. ### 10. Low: Url Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 65.0% Package source contains URL literals. ### 11. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review - **Category:** Artifact Inventory - **Confidence:** 80.0% Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean. ### 12. Medium: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 91.0% - **Path:** package.json - **Public source:** [View source]() The manifest has no install lifecycle hook and lists matching-version first-party dependencies. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```json "scripts": { "build": "tsc -p tsconfig.build.json" }, "dependencies": { "@hmharness/agent": "0.23.33", "@hmharness/browser": "0.23.33", "@hmharness/cogn ``` ## Dependencies and install lifecycle - **Lifecycle scripts present:** No - **Dependencies:** 15 - **Optional dependencies:** 0 - **Peer dependencies:** 0 - **Development dependencies:** 0 - **Published dependency-graph edges:** 15 ### Published dependency entries - @hmharness/agent 0.23.33 (Dependency) - @hmharness/browser 0.23.33 (Dependency) - @hmharness/cognitive 0.23.33 (Dependency) - @hmharness/domain-harmony 0.23.33 (Dependency) - @hmharness/domain-ops 0.23.33 (Dependency) - @hmharness/environments 0.23.33 (Dependency) - @hmharness/evaluation 0.23.33 (Dependency) - @hmharness/evolution 0.23.33 (Dependency) - @hmharness/extension 0.23.33 (Dependency) - @hmharness/kernel 0.23.33 (Dependency) - @hmharness/lsp 0.23.33 (Dependency) - @hmharness/observability 0.23.33 (Dependency) - @hmharness/sandbox 0.23.33 (Dependency) - @hmharness/web 0.23.33 (Dependency) - qrcode ^1.5.4 (Dependency) ## Package metadata - **Package:** @hmharness/cli - **Ecosystem:** npm - **Version:** 0.23.33 - **License:** MIT - **Version published:** 2026-10-08T05:15:17.584Z - **Package first seen:** 2026-09-07T08:27:34.501Z - **Package last seen:** 2026-11-02T15:26:06.063Z - **Known versions:** 92 - **Latest version:** 0.23.50 - **Appeal under review:** No - **Description:** hmharness command line: one-shot tasks, an interactive REPL, a fullscreen TUI, the web frontend, and direct tool invocation. - **Maintainers:** swsgbl - **Keywords:** harmonyos, openharmony, ohos, agent, ai, cli, coding-agent, arkts, self-evolving, mcp - **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22 - **Artifact files:** 34 - **Artifact unpacked size:** 485,130 bytes - **Artifact signatures:** 2 - **Attestations:** No ## References - [HTML security report]() - [Repository]() - [Homepage]() - [Issues]()