---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@nimbus-sh/worker"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@nimbus-sh/worker/v/0.6.0.md"
package: "@nimbus-sh/worker"
report_status: "published"
title: "@nimbus-sh/worker@0.6.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.6.0"
---

# @nimbus-sh/worker@0.6.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 23 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:** 0.6.0
- **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.

This package is a Cloudflare Workers sandbox that compiles and runs guest JavaScript, ships a large Vite runtime, and can download compiler blobs. Those code-execution paths match the stated product, but the oversized generated assets were not fully inspectable, so extra hidden sinks remain unresolved.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 64.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-17T04:00:41.728Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-17T04:08:13.164Z
- **Download time:** 1278 ms
- **Static scan time:** 15533 ms
- **AI review time:** 434624 ms
- **Total time:** 451436 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:** This package is a Cloudflare Workers sandbox that compiles and runs guest JavaScript, ships a large Vite runtime, and can download compiler blobs. Those code-execution paths match the stated product, but the oversized generated assets were not fully inspectable, so extra hidden sinks remain unresolved.

- **Trigger:** Importing or deploying the worker and running a sandbox session, or a maintainer invoking the runtime ingest script.

- **Impact:** Guest or toolchain code can execute inside the sandbox; incomplete inspection of huge generated files leaves residual risk that a hidden payload could ride those same sinks.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/facets/manager.js, dist/facets/real-vite-fs-shim.js, public/\_assets/real-vite-bundle.js, scripts/bundle-runtime.mjs, scripts/bundle-real-vite.mjs, dist/facets/vite-dev-server.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-17T04:08:13.164Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Dynamic Function compilation and loader-injected workers, plus maintainer-time remote runtime downloads

- **Rationale:** Inspectable source shows a sandbox runtime with new Function, dynamic workers, and maintainer-time downloads of known compiler artifacts, and package.json has no install lifecycle hooks. Oversized generated bundles cannot be fully proven free of extra sinks, so this stays a warning-level dangerous capability rather than a clean or blocking malware finding.

- **Files touched:** public/\_assets/real-vite-bundle.js, scripts/bundle-runtime.mjs, scripts/bundle-real-vite.mjs

- **Network endpoints:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/binji/wasm-clang/master, https://registry.npmjs.org/@ruby/3.3-wasm-wasi/-/3.3-wasm-wasi-2.9.3-2.9.4.tgz

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 64.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The facet manager compiles guest JavaScript with new Function during isolated worker startup., The Vite filesystem shim evaluates virtual-filesystem module text with new Function., The shipped Vite asset builds functions from strings, and the HMR client fetches script text then runs it with new Function., The Vite bundler injects that bundle into a dynamic worker through the loader binding., The runtime ingest script, exported from package.json, downloads compiler and interpreter blobs from GitHub and the npm registry., Generated assets such as the fifty-thousand-line Vite bundle are too large for complete static inspection, so extra hidden sinks cannot be ruled out.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no preinstall, install, or postinstall scripts; only a prepack build step., The README and dist/index.js describe a Cloudflare Workers sandbox runtime, not install-time mutation of a host project., No webhook, Discord, or other secret-exfil endpoints were found in inspectable source., Remote URLs in the ingest script are documented clang and ruby.wasm upstreams, not anonymous drop hosts.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @nimbus-sh/worker@0.6.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @nimbus-sh/worker@0.6.0 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. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/facets/manager.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nimbus-sh/worker@0.6.0/dist/facets/manager.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L184: *   - ASYNC OPERATIONS in flight (`__nimbusPendingOps`): a fetch, a response
L185: *     body read, an fs/child_process RPC. `await` resolves through
L186: *     PerformPromiseThen and surfaces nowhere else, so this counter is how
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** public/\_assets/real-vite-bundle.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nimbus-sh/worker@0.6.0/public/_assets/real-vite-bundle.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L69352: stdio: "inherit",
L69353: shell: true
L69354: });
```

### 4. High: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/facets/real-vite-fs-shim.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nimbus-sh/worker@0.6.0/dist/facets/real-vite-fs-shim.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
L780: const subMod = { exports: {} };
L781: const subWrapped = new Function("module", "exports", "require", "__filename", "__dirname", c);
L782: try { subWrapped(subMod, subMod.exports, nestedRequire, relAbs + ext, relAbs); }
```

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/facets/wasm-swap-registry.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nimbus-sh/worker@0.6.0/dist/facets/wasm-swap-registry.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
L6: *   - swaps  : name→name rewrite at the resolver/installer boundary.
L7: *              Only `compat: "drop-in"` swaps qualify (the consumer"s\n *              `require()` call site works unchanged). Different-\n *              require-name candidates (...
L8: // `require(originalName)` call site. They are in `rejects`
```

### 6. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** public/\_assets/real-vite-bundle.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nimbus-sh/worker@0.6.0/public/_assets/real-vite-bundle.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L200: exports.xxhashBase36 = xxhashBase362;
L201: function xxhashBase64Url2(input) {
L202: let deferred1_0;
...
L545: function getRollupUrl(snippet) {
L546: return `https://rollupjs.org/${snippet}`;
L547: }
...
L1719: params: convertNodeList(buffer[position + 4], buffer),
L1720: body: convertNode(buffer[position + 5], buffer),
L1721: id: null
...
L2377: }, "objectPattern"),
L2378: /* @__PURE__ */ __name(function privateIdentifier(position, buffer) {
L2379: return {
```

### 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: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** scripts/bundle-runtime.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nimbus-sh/worker@0.6.0/scripts/bundle-runtime.mjs%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
L31: * For `clang binji-2020`, the upstream is:
L32: *   https://raw.githubusercontent.com/binji/wasm-clang/master/{clang,lld,sysroot.tar}
L33: *
...
L39: *
L40: * Idempotent: re-running compares sha256 with what"s currently\n * uploaded; skips re-upload on match. Re-run is safe at any time.\n *\n * Requires CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID env var + ...
L41: *  Only a publish to THIS bucket may rewrite the catalog pin: the pin
```

### 11. Critical: Remote Asset Decode Execute
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** public/\_assets/real-vite-bundle.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nimbus-sh/worker@0.6.0/public/_assets/real-vite-bundle.js>)

Source fetches a remote non-code asset, decodes its contents, and dynamically executes the decoded payload.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L200: exports.xxhashBase36 = xxhashBase362;
L201: function xxhashBase64Url2(input) {
L202: let deferred1_0;
...
L545: function getRollupUrl(snippet) {
L546: return `https://rollupjs.org/${snippet}`;
L547: }
...
L1719: params: convertNodeList(buffer[position + 4], buffer),
L1720: body: convertNode(buffer[position + 5], buffer),
L1721: id: null
...
L2377: }, "objectPattern"),
L2378: /* @__PURE__ */ __name(function privateIdentifier(position, buffer) {
L2379: return {
```

### 12. High: Obfuscated Payload Loader
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** public/\_assets/real-vite-bundle.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nimbus-sh/worker@0.6.0/public/_assets/real-vite-bundle.js>)

Source contains an obfuscated payload loader that reconstructs and executes hidden code.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L22909: }
L22910: currentGlobal = currentGlobal[pathSegment];
L22911: if (!currentGlobal) {
```

### 13. Critical: Remote Response Code Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 98.0%
- **Path:** public/\_assets/real-vite-bundle.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nimbus-sh/worker@0.6.0/public/_assets/real-vite-bundle.js>)

Source passes code obtained from a remote response into a dynamic execution sink.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Remote response is passed to a worker and executed with Node capabilities.
public/_assets/real-vite-bundle.js:
// ── Cirrus real-vite bundler: __require2 + __require shim ───────
// 1. __cirrusRealRequireShim resolves a small whitelist of bundled
//    consumed by the post-patched __require2 call sites.
// 2. __cirrusRealCjsRequire is a general CJS require polyfill that
//    works inside workerd. esbuild's built-in __require polyfill
//    uses `typeof require !== "undefined" ? require : throw`, which
//    always throws in workerd because the global `require` doesn't
const _origCreateRequire = globalThis.__origCreateRequire || null;
public/_assets/real-vite-bundle.js:
// ── Cirrus real-vite bundler: __require2 + __require shim ───────
// 1. __cirrusRealRequireShim resolves a small whitel
```

### 14. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/facets/manager.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nimbus-sh/worker@0.6.0/dist/facets/manager.js>)

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/facets/manager.js spawns public/_assets/opencode/1.16.2/index.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L6: * runaway script can't take the supervisor down. The script also needs
L7: * supervisor-owned services: VFS writes, stdout/stderr, process exit,
L8: * child-process brokering, and preview port routing.
...
L11: *   1. LOADER.load(makeConfig)        — isolated dynamic worker
L12: *   2. worker.getEntrypoint().fetch() — executes the script
L13: *   3. SUPERVISOR RPC                 — streams output and VFS writes
...
L184: *   - ASYNC OPERATIONS in flight (`__nimbusPendingOps`): a fetch, a response
L185: *     body read, an fs/child_process RPC. `await` resolves through
L186: *     PerformPromiseThen and surfaces nowhere els
```

### 15. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** scripts/bundle-real-vite.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nimbus-sh/worker@0.6.0/scripts/bundle-real-vite.mjs>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L377: const installCwd = path.resolve(ROOT, '..', '..');
L378: execSync(`bun add --no-save vite@${PINNED_VITE_VERSION} @rollup/wasm-node`, {
L379: cwd: installCwd, stdio: 'inherit',
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 17. Low: Telemetry
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 19. Medium: Ships Wasm Module
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** public/\_assets/esbuild-0.24.2.wasm
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nimbus-sh/worker@0.6.0/public/_assets/esbuild-0.24.2.wasm>)

Package ships WebAssembly modules.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = public/_assets/esbuild-0.24.2.wasm
kind = wasm_module
sizeBytes = 11907565
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 20. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** public/\_assets/opencode/1.16.2/index-attach.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nimbus-sh/worker@0.6.0/public/_assets/opencode/1.16.2/index-attach.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = public/_assets/opencode/1.16.2/index-attach.js
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 14433225
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 21. 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.

### 22. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/facets/real-vite-fs-shim.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nimbus-sh/worker@0.6.0/dist/facets/real-vite-fs-shim.js%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 = 34
```

### 23. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** scripts/bundle-real-vite.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nimbus-sh/worker@0.6.0/scripts/bundle-real-vite.mjs>)

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 = @nimbus-sh/worker@0.4.0
matchedIdentity = npm:QG5pbWJ1cy1zaC93b3JrZXI:0.4.0
similarity = 0.642
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 24
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 6
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 24

### Published dependency entries
- @ai-sdk/openai-compatible ^2.0.41 (Dependency)
- @nimbus-sh/core ^0.8.0 (Dependency)
- @nimbus-sh/fabric ^0.4.0 (Dependency)
- @nimbus-sh/platform ^0.3.0 (Dependency)
- @renovatebot/pep440 ^5.0.0 (Dependency)
- ai ^6.0.182 (Dependency)
- clean-git-ref ^2.0.1 (Dependency)
- crc-32 ^1.2.2 (Dependency)
- diff ^5.1.0 (Dependency)
- diff3 0.0.3 (Dependency)
- esbuild-wasm 0.24.2 (Dependency)
- ignore ^5.1.4 (Dependency)
- is-git-ref-name-valid ^1.0.0 (Dependency)
- isomorphic-git npm:@ashishkumar472/cf-git@1.0.5 (Dependency)
- minimisted ^2.0.1 (Dependency)
- pako 1.0.11 (Dependency)
- pify ^4.0.1 (Dependency)
- pip-requirements-js ^1.0.3 (Dependency)
- readable-stream ^3.4.0 (Dependency)
- sha.js ^2.4.12 (Dependency)
- simple-get ^4.0.1 (Dependency)
- sql.js ^1.14.1 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.20.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.4.3 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @nimbus-sh/worker
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.6.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-14T18:16:43.258Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-13T17:11:21.020Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-29T06:19:03.562Z
- **Known versions:** 8
- **Latest version:** 0.11.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Nimbus runtime package for Cloudflare Workers, re-exported publicly through @nimbus-sh/sdk/worker.
- **Maintainers:** ashishkumar472
- **Keywords:** cloudflare, workers, durable-objects, webassembly, sandbox, runtime
- **Artifact files:** 434
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 72,972,153 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@nimbus-sh/worker/v/0.6.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/AshishKumar4/Nimbus>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/AshishKumar4/Nimbus/issues>)
