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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@kelvdra/baileys"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@kelvdra/baileys/v/1.0.6-rc.3.md"
package: "@kelvdra/baileys"
report_status: "published"
title: "@kelvdra/baileys@1.0.6-rc.3 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.0.6-rc.3"
---

# @kelvdra/baileys@1.0.6-rc.3 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:** Remote Code Execution
- **Selected version:** 1.0.6-rc.3
- **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.

A caller-supplied motion-video URL is interpolated into a shell command. A crafted URL can alter that command when the feature extracts a frame.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 98.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-08T16:35:17.695Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-08T16:36:09.928Z
- **Download time:** 766 ms
- **Static scan time:** 5981 ms
- **AI review time:** 45484 ms
- **Total time:** 52233 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 caller-supplied motion-video URL is interpolated into a shell command. A crafted URL can alter that command when the feature extracts a frame.

- **Trigger:** A caller invokes the motion-video handler with an HTTP or HTTPS video URL.

- **Impact:** Command injection may allow arbitrary command execution in the application process.

- **Evidence paths:** lib/Socket/hydra.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-08T16:36:09.928Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The URL is inserted into a command string and passed to \`child\_process.exec\` without shell-safe argument handling.

- **Rationale:** Static source inspection found an unsafely interpolated, caller-controlled URL passed to a shell through \`exec\` in the motion-video feature. This is a concrete command-injection vulnerability, so the package warrants a warning rather than a malicious verdict.

- **Files touched:** lib/Socket/hydra.js

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 98.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Critical Vulnerability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** In \`lib/Socket/hydra.js\`, the motion handler takes a video URL from caller-supplied content and passes it to \`\_extractVideoFrame\`., \`\_extractVideoFrame\` interpolates that URL into a shell command and executes it with \`child\_process.exec\`, creating a command-injection path when a crafted URL reaches this caller-invoked feature.

- **Evidence against:** \`package.json\` has no lifecycle scripts; the identified shell execution is in a caller-invoked motion-video feature., The flagged \`WAProto/index.js\` imports protobuf runtime components, and \`lib/WABinary/constants.js\` begins with WhatsApp binary protocol tag definitions.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @kelvdra/baileys@1.0.6-rc.3.

- Review the evidence and your use of @kelvdra/baileys@1.0.6-rc.3 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: High Secret
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** lib/WABinary/constants.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@kelvdra/baileys@1.0.6-rc.3/lib/WABinary/constants.js>)

Package contains a high-severity secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 600
```

### 2. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** lib/VoIP/worker-bootstrap.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@kelvdra/baileys@1.0.6-rc.3/lib/VoIP/worker-bootstrap.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L342: const code = fs.readFileSync(url, "utf8");
L343: eval(code);
L344: }
```

### 3. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** lib/Utils/auth-store.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@kelvdra/baileys@1.0.6-rc.3/lib/Utils/auth-store.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L18: try {
L19: const mod = await import(name);
L20: return mod.default ?? mod;
```

### 4. Medium: Unsafe Vm Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 68.0%
- **Path:** lib/VoIP/wasm-engine.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@kelvdra/baileys@1.0.6-rc.3/lib/VoIP/wasm-engine.js>)

Package source executes code through a VM context API.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L13: import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
L14: const __dirname = path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
L15: const CALL_WASM_AB_PROPS_JSON = process.env.CALL_WASM_AB_PROPS_JSON ?? "";
L16: const PTHREAD_POOL_SIZE = 20;
...
L21: try {
L22: const parsed = JSON.parse(raw);
L23: if (parsed && typeof parsed === "object" && !Array.isArray(parsed))
...
L47: };
L48: const filterWorkerStderr = (chunk) => {
L49: const line = chunk.toString().trim();
L50: if (line && !line.startsWith("voip:") && !line.startsWith("still waiting")) {
L51: process.stderr.write(chunk);
```

### 5. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** lib/Utils/validate-connection.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@kelvdra/baileys@1.0.6-rc.3/lib/Utils/validate-connection.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L107: pull: false,
L108: devicePairingData: {
L109: buildHash: appVersionBuf,
...
L134: const { details, hmac, accountType } = proto.ADVSignedDeviceIdentityHMAC.decode(deviceIdentityNode.content);
L135: let hmacPrefix = Buffer.from([]);
L136: if (accountType !== undefined && accountType === proto.ADVEncryptionType.HOSTED) {
...
L158: ]);
L159: account.deviceSignature = Curve.sign(signedIdentityKey.private, deviceMsg);
L160: const identity = createSignalIdentity(lid, accountSignatureKey);
```

### 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. 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: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** WAProto/GenerateStatics.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@kelvdra/baileys@1.0.6-rc.3/WAProto/GenerateStatics.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = WAProto/GenerateStatics.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 302
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 12. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** WAProto/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@kelvdra/baileys@1.0.6-rc.3/WAProto/index.js>)

Package contains source files above the normal full-analysis size ceiling.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = WAProto/index.js
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 5606768
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 13. 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.

### 14. Medium: Git Dependency
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package manifest contains a git dependency.

### 15. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** WAProto/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@kelvdra/baileys@1.0.6-rc.3/WAProto/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 = 5
```

### 16. High: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** lib/WABinary/constants.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@kelvdra/baileys@1.0.6-rc.3/lib/WABinary/constants.js>)

Google API key in lib/WABinary/constants.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 600
```

### 17. High: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** lib/WABinary/constants.d.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@kelvdra/baileys@1.0.6-rc.3/lib/WABinary/constants.d.ts>)

Google API key in lib/WABinary/constants.d.ts

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 20
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 15
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 9
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 24

### Published dependency entries
- @cacheable/node-cache ^1.4.0 (Dependency)
- @hapi/boom ^9.1.3 (Dependency)
- async-mutex ^0.5.0 (Dependency)
- axios ^1.13.6 (Dependency)
- cache-manager ^5.7.6 (Dependency)
- chalk ^5.3.0 (Dependency)
- fflate ^0.8.2 (Dependency)
- libsignal github:Kelvdra/libsignal (Dependency)
- lru-cache ^11.1.0 (Dependency)
- music-metadata ^11.7.0 (Dependency)
- p-queue ^9.0.0 (Dependency)
- pino ^9.6 (Dependency)
- protobufjs ^7.5.6 (Dependency)
- whatsapp-rust-bridge 0.5.2 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.13.0 (Dependency)
- better-sqlite3 ^11.0.0 || ^12.0.0 || ^13.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- fluent-ffmpeg \* (PeerDependency)
- ioredis ^5.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- jimp ^1.6.0 (PeerDependency)
- link-preview-js ^3.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- mongodb ^6.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- mysql2 ^3.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- pg ^8.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- sharp \* (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @kelvdra/baileys
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.6-rc.3
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-29T07:40:37.074Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-30T10:35:08.617Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-08T16:36:33.911Z
- **Known versions:** 8
- **Latest version:** 1.0.6-rc.6
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Baileys fork whiskeysockets modified by kelvdra.
- **Author:** Kelvdra
- **Maintainers:** hydraxyz46
- **Keywords:** baileys, baileys-mod, bails, whiskeysockets/baileys, whatsapp, meta, Hydra, Kelvdra, whatsapp, js-whatsapp, whatsapp-api, whatsapp-web
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 314
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 10,314,731 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@kelvdra/baileys/v/1.0.6-rc.3>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/WhiskeySockets/Baileys>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/WhiskeySockets/Baileys/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/WhiskeySockets/Baileys/issues>)
