--- canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@marecgents/dsh-hub/v/0.0.1-rc.12" markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@marecgents/dsh-hub/v/0.0.1-rc.12.md" package: "@marecgents/dsh-hub" report_status: "published" title: "@marecgents/dsh-hub@0.0.1-rc.12 npm security report" verdict: "malicious" version: "0.0.1-rc.12" --- # @marecgents/dsh-hub@0.0.1-rc.12 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 **Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. Mutates global package-manager state and installs a foreign AI-agent command without an explicit user action. - **Verdict:** Malicious - **Product-default install policy:** Block - **Firewall policy:** Warn by default - **Public report status:** Published - **Threat category:** Soft block: AI-agent control surface - **Selected version:** 0.0.1-rc.12 - **Selected version is latest:** No - **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai) LPM flags this version as an AI-agent control-surface risk. On npm installation, the package can silently add global software, including the separate DeepSeek dsh AI-agent CLI. On Windows it also creates a desktop launcher. ## Latest scan - **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1 - **Verdict:** Malicious - **Confidence:** 96.0% - **Started:** 2026-08-16T12:38:09.895Z - **Finished:** 2026-08-16T12:39:16.709Z - **Download time:** 756 ms - **Static scan time:** 1001 ms - **AI review time:** 65055 ms - **Total time:** 66814 ms ## Security analysis ### Published attack-surface review - **Summary:** On npm installation, the package can silently add global software, including the separate DeepSeek dsh AI-agent CLI. On Windows it also creates a desktop launcher. - **Trigger:** npm postinstall on Windows when dsh or pnpm is absent - **Impact:** Mutates global package-manager state and installs a foreign AI-agent command without an explicit user action. - **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.mjs, bin/launcher.mjs - **Review source:** ai\_review - **Reviewed:** 2026-08-16T12:39:16.709Z ### AI review details - **Review stage:** source\_first\_review - **Mechanism:** automatic global package installation and launcher creation - **Attack narrative:** Installing this package invokes postinstall. If dsh is missing, it executes \`npm install -g @deepseek-ai/dsh\`; if pnpm is missing, it similarly installs pnpm globally. These actions occur before the Windows-only shortcut flow and are not gated by an interactive approval, extending the install into a separate AI-agent CLI and global tooling surface. - **Rationale:** The lifecycle hook performs unconsented global installation of a foreign AI-agent CLI, which is a concrete install-time control-surface mutation. Benign desktop-shell functionality does not require that mutation to be accepted at dependency-install time. - **Files touched:** scripts/postinstall.mjs, bin/launcher.vbs ### Review decision - **Verdict:** Malicious - **Confidence:** 96.0% - **Recommended action:** publish\_block - **Intent class:** Malware - **False-positive risk:** Low - **Evidence for:** package.json runs scripts/postinstall.mjs automatically after npm install., The postinstall hook installs @deepseek-ai/dsh globally when absent, without a user confirmation step., The same hook also installs pnpm globally and creates a Windows desktop launcher. - **Evidence against:** No credential harvesting, external HTTP endpoint, or data-exfiltration code was found in the inspected lifecycle and launcher sources., The runtime profile registration is tied to this package's dsh-hub bundle and its documented desktop-shell feature. ## Public findings ### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 90.0% - **Path:** package.json - **Public source:** [View source]() Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```json scripts.postinstall = node ./scripts/postinstall.mjs ``` ### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 75.0% - **Path:** package.json - **Public source:** [View source]() Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```json scripts.postinstall = node ./scripts/postinstall.mjs ``` ### 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. High: Child Process - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 85.0% - **Path:** bin/dsh-hub.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references child process execution. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L11: L12: import { spawn, spawnSync } from 'node:child_process' L13: import { existsSync, appendFileSync } from 'node:fs' ``` ### 6. High: Shell - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 85.0% - **Path:** bin/multi-instance.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references shell execution. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L73: try { L74: const ps = spawnSync('powershell.exe', ['-NoProfile', '-NonInteractive', '-Command', L75: "Get-CimInstance Win32_Process -Filter \"Name='node.exe' -or Name='dsh-hub.exe' -or Name='dsh-hub-guard.exe'\" | Where-Object { $_.CommandLine -match 'dsh.*web' } | Select-Object -... ``` ### 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. High: Runtime Package Install - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 86.0% - **Path:** bin/launcher.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L276: log('dsh CLI missing; attempting global install…') L277: const install = spawnSync(process.env.ComSpec, ['/d', '/s', '/c', 'npm install -g @deepseek-ai/dsh'], { L278: encoding: 'utf8', timeout: 180000, windowsHide: true, ``` ### 11. Low: High Entropy Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 55.0% Package source contains high-entropy string patterns. ### 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:** 100.0% Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean. ### 14. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 93.0% - **Path:** bin/hub-exe.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() 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 = @marecgents/dsh-hub@0.0.1-rc.9 matchedIdentity = npm:QG1hcmVjZ2VudHMvZHNoLWh1Yg:0.0.1-rc.9 similarity = 0.488 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, postuninstall - **Dependencies:** 5 - **Optional dependencies:** 0 - **Peer dependencies:** 7 - **Development dependencies:** 20 - **Published dependency-graph edges:** 12 ### Published dependency entries - @deepseek-ai/schemastery ^3.18.1 (Dependency) - @webviewjs/webview ^0.4.2 (Dependency) - clsx ^2.1.1 (Dependency) - koffi ^3.1.5 (Dependency) - rcedit ^5.0.2 (Dependency) - @deepseek-ai/cordis ^4.0.1 (PeerDependency) - @deepseek-ai/dsh-cmdline ^0.0.1-rc.1 (PeerDependency) - @deepseek-ai/dsh-host-webserver ^0.0.1-rc.1 (PeerDependency) - @deepseek-ai/dsh-mcp-client ^0.0.1-rc.1 (PeerDependency) - @deepseek-ai/dsh-settings ^0.0.1-rc.1 (PeerDependency) - react ^18.3.1 (PeerDependency) - react-dom ^18.3.1 (PeerDependency) ## Package metadata - **Package:** @marecgents/dsh-hub - **Ecosystem:** npm - **Version:** 0.0.1-rc.12 - **License:** MIT - **Version published:** 2026-08-16T11:29:14.008Z - **Package first seen:** 2026-08-16T01:56:38.676Z - **Package last seen:** 2026-08-16T14:09:32.964Z - **Known versions:** 4 - **Latest version:** 0.0.1-rc.14 - **Appeal under review:** No - **Description:** DeepSeek Harness desktop hub — native desktop shell (WebView2) for dsh's Web UI with tray, theme sync, window-state memory and a right sidebar. Injects the shell + plugin page only when launched by this project (desktop shortcut or \`dsh-hub\` command). - **Runtime engines:** node: \>=24.0.0 - **Artifact files:** 111 - **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,558,715 bytes - **Artifact signatures:** 1 - **Attestations:** No ## References - [HTML security report]()