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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@metaphi-ai/hum/v/0.2.62"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@metaphi-ai/hum/v/0.2.62.md"
package: "@metaphi-ai/hum"
report_status: "published"
title: "@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.62 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.2.62"
---

# @metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.62 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 16 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Credential Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 0.2.62
- **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.

The lifecycle installer appears scoped to installing Hum’s own Python core. The runtime reporter’s configurable destination can receive a saved service token, so this warrants a warning for conditional credential exposure.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 87.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-14T09:14:10.470Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-14T09:15:12.717Z
- **Download time:** 2036 ms
- **Static scan time:** 791 ms
- **AI review time:** 59419 ms
- **Total time:** 62247 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:** During normal use, Hum may send pending diagnostics to a configurable health host with the saved service access token.

- **Trigger:** Interactive startup or completion of a CLI command when a pending diagnostic exists.

- **Impact:** A custom destination can receive the service token along with diagnostics. The source shows conditional exposure, not how a recipient would use the token.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/cli.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-14T09:15:12.717Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The reporter uses HUM\_AUTH\_URL or credentials.json auth\_url without a source-level host allowlist, then includes the saved access token as a bearer header.

- **Rationale:** The lifecycle installer appears scoped to installing Hum’s own Python core. The runtime reporter’s configurable destination can receive a saved service token, so this warrants a warning for conditional credential exposure.

- **Files touched:** dist/cli.mjs, credentials.json, health.json

- **Network endpoints:** https://hum.metaphi.ai

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 87.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The package postinstall hook runs scripts/postinstall.js, which calls installCore when its matching core is missing., The health reporter takes its destination from HUM\_AUTH\_URL or credentials.json auth\_url, with https://hum.metaphi.ai as the fallback., The reporter reads credentials.json access\_token and sends it as a bearer token with a POST to the health endpoint., Pending reports are sent automatically during interactive startup and after CLI commands.

- **Evidence against:** The install hook installs the matching hum-cli Python core; the inspected lifecycle path does not establish broad consumer-project mutation., The default health destination is the Hum service host.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.62.

- Review the evidence and your use of @metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.62 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: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.62/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.js
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.62/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.js
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/install.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.62/dist/install.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: // src/install.js
L2: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L3: import fs from "node:fs";
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/install.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.62/dist/install.mjs%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
L95: fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(dir), { recursive: true });
L96: const r = runImpl("powershell", ["-NoProfile", "-ExecutionPolicy", "Bypass", "-Command", script]);
L97: try {
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/hum.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.62/bin/hum.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L25: const own = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(here, '..', 'package.json'), 'utf8')).version;
L26: const { chosenEntry } = await import(asUrl(path.join(here, '..', 'dist', 'install.mjs')));
L27: entry = chosenEntry(own) || entry;
```

### 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. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/install.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.62/dist/install.mjs>)

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/install.mjs spawns dist/cli.mjs; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L1: // src/install.js
L2: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L3: import fs from "node:fs";
...
L5: import path from "node:path";
L6: var win = process.platform === "win32";
L7: var MINE = typeof HUM_VERSION === "string" ? HUM_VERSION : "";
...
L9: var NPM_FIX = npmFix("latest");
L10: var humHome = (env = process.env) => env.HUM_HOME || path.join(os.homedir(), ".hum");
L11: var versionsDir = (env = process.env) => path.join(humHome(env), "versions");
...
L47: const r = runImpl(corePython(env, version), ASK_VERSION);
L48: return r && r.status === 0 ? String(r.stdout).trim() : null;
L49: }
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 12. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.62/dist/cli.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/cli.mjs
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 4214104
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 13. Medium: Oversized Cli Entrypoint
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.62/dist/cli.mjs>)

Package contains an oversized executable-looking CLI entrypoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/cli.mjs
kind = oversized_cli_entrypoint
sizeBytes = 4214104
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 14. 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.

### 15. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 16. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/install.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.62/dist/install.mjs%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 1
```

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @metaphi-ai/hum
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.2.62
- **License:** UNLICENSED
- **Version published:** 2026-10-13T21:07:17.690Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-25T02:05:34.392Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-15T01:56:26.983Z
- **Known versions:** 87
- **Latest version:** 0.2.65
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Hum: a self-improving coding agent for your terminal.
- **Maintainers:** chandwaniac
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22
- **Artifact files:** 6
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 4,233,935 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@metaphi-ai/hum/v/0.2.62>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/metaphi-labs/hum>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/metaphi-labs/hum#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/metaphi-labs/hum/issues>)
