---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@nordsym/apiclaw/v/2.9.6"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@nordsym/apiclaw/v/2.9.6.md"
package: "@nordsym/apiclaw"
report_status: "published"
title: "@nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.6 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "2.9.6"
---

# @nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.6 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — A local user identifier and installation metadata are disclosed without an interactive consent step.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Data Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 2.9.6
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Installing the package runs code that derives a hostname-and-username identifier and transmits it to a remote telemetry service. It also writes a local marker to prevent repeated transmissions.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 96.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-30T23:46:48.259Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-30T23:48:05.135Z
- **Download time:** 764 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3031 ms
- **AI review time:** 73080 ms
- **Total time:** 76876 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Installing the package runs code that derives a hostname-and-username identifier and transmits it to a remote telemetry service. It also writes a local marker to prevent repeated transmissions.

- **Trigger:** npm installation triggers postinstall.

- **Impact:** A local user identifier and installation metadata are disclosed without an interactive consent step.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/postinstall.js, dist/session.js, dist/funnel-client.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-30T23:48:05.135Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Automatic host-identifier collection and remote telemetry POST.

- **Attack narrative:** The package manifest invokes dist/postinstall.js during installation. That hook derives a fingerprint from the local hostname and username, labels it as an install event, and passes it to the funnel client. The funnel client serializes the fingerprint and related metadata into a POST request to the configured Convex endpoint. The request is enabled unless an environment variable was set in advance, so ordinary installation discloses the identifier before the user invokes the package CLI.

- **Rationale:** The automatic lifecycle hook exfiltrates a hostname-and-username identifier to a remote endpoint. This is concrete unconsented data collection at install time, not required for installation.

- **Files touched:** ~/.apiclaw/funnel-markers.json

- **Network endpoints:** https://adventurous-avocet-799.convex.cloud/api/mutation

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 96.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** The manifest automatically runs a postinstall program., The postinstall program sends an install event with a machine fingerprint., The fingerprint is the local hostname and username., The funnel client includes that fingerprint in a POST to a remote endpoint by default.

- **Evidence against:** No self-dependency is declared in the manifest., MCP configuration changes are reached through an explicit CLI command, not the install hook.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.6/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node dist/postinstall.js || true
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.6/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node dist/postinstall.js || true
```

### 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:** dist/skill.test.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.6/dist/skill.test.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8: import assert from "node:assert/strict";
L9: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L10: import { existsSync, mkdtempSync, readFileSync, rmSync } from "node:fs";
```

### 6. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package source references shell execution.

### 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:** dist/pending-login-start.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.6/dist/pending-login-start.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: * MCP / agent hosts have no stdin/stdout TTY, so they must not wait for
L5: * `canLaunchInteractiveAuth` before creating `https://apiclaw.cloud/auth/cli?authId=…`.
L6: * Opening the browser is best-effort. whoami redeems Authorize; localhost
...
L9: import { createHash, randomBytes } from "node:crypto";
L10: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L11: import { pendingLoginStillOpen } from "./cli-auth-redeem.js";
...
L15: export const PENDING_LOGIN_LOOPBACK_PORT = 41789;
L16: const CONVEX_URL = process.env.APICLAW_CONVEX_URL || "https://adventurous-avocet-799.convex.cloud";
L17: const APP_URL = process.env.APICLAW_APP_URL || "https://apiclaw.cloud";
```

### 11. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/pending-login-start.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.6/dist/pending-login-start.js>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: *
L4: * MCP / agent hosts have no stdin/stdout TTY, so they must not wait for
L5: * `canLaunchInteractiveAuth` before creating `https://apiclaw.cloud/auth/cli?authId=…`.
L6: * Opening the browser is best-effort. whoami redeems Authorize; localhost
...
L9: import { createHash, randomBytes } from "node:crypto";
L10: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L11: import { pendingLoginStillOpen } from "./cli-auth-redeem.js";
...
L15: export const PENDING_LOGIN_LOOPBACK_PORT = 41789;
L16: const CONVEX_URL = process.env.APICLAW_CONVEX_URL || "https://adventurous-avocet-799.convex.cloud";
L17: const APP_URL = process.env.APICLAW_APP_URL || "https://apiclaw.cloud";
L18: function base64url(buf) {
L19: return buf.toString("base64").replace(/\+/g, "-").replace(/\//g, "_").replace(/=+$/g, "");
```

### 12. Critical: Ai Agent Control Hijack
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.6/dist/postinstall.js>)

Source creates an unconsented AI-agent control surface through install-time mutation or a default unauthenticated remote skill channel.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Install-time AI-agent control hijack evidence:
Install-time helper chain writes an AI-agent control surface:
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: /**
Referenced control path from dist/session.js:
L16: if (!fs.existsSync(SESSION_DIR)) {
L17: fs.mkdirSync(SESSION_DIR, { mode: 0o700 });
L18: }
...
L60: // Migrate to canonical location
L61: fs.writeFileSync(SESSION_FILE, JSON.stringify({ ...data, createdAt: data.createdAt || Date.now() }, null, 2), { mode: 0o600 });
L62: return data;
...
L83: };
L84: fs.writeFileSync(SESSION_FILE, JSON.stringify(data, null, 2), {
L85: mode: 0o600, // Read/write for owner only
...
L127: return 'cursor';
L128: if (process.env.CLAUDE_CODE)
L129: return 'claude-code';
Write operation from dist/funnel-client.js:
L79: if (!fs.existsSync(MARKER_DIR))
L80: fs.mkdirSync(MARKER_
```

### 13. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/commands/mcp-install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.6/dist/cli/commands/mcp-install.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8: import { platform, homedir } from 'os';
L9: import { execSync } from 'child_process';
L10: import chalk from 'chalk';
...
L12: import { readPendingLoginUrl } from '../../execute-auth.js';
L13: // Printed next step: npx @nordsym/apiclaw auth login
L14: import { authLoginCommand } from './auth.js';
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 16. 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.

### 17. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/commands/direct.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.6/dist/cli/commands/direct.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 = 3
```

### 18. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/commands/mcp-install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.6/dist/cli/commands/mcp-install.js>)

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 = @nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.3
matchedIdentity = npm:QG5vcmRzeW0vYXBpY2xhdw:2.9.3
similarity = 0.882
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, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 15
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 4
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 15

### Published dependency entries
- @e2b/code-interpreter ^2.3.3 (Dependency)
- @hono/node-server ^1.19.9 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.0.0 (Dependency)
- @supabase/supabase-js ^2.39.0 (Dependency)
- @types/inquirer ^9.0.9 (Dependency)
- @zed-industries/agent-client-protocol ^0.4.5 (Dependency)
- chalk ^5.6.2 (Dependency)
- commander ^14.0.3 (Dependency)
- convex ^1.36.1 (Dependency)
- dotenv ^17.3.1 (Dependency)
- fs-extra ^11.3.3 (Dependency)
- hono ^4.0.0 (Dependency)
- inquirer ^13.3.0 (Dependency)
- ora ^9.3.0 (Dependency)
- stripe ^20.3.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @nordsym/apiclaw
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.9.6
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-30T23:36:37.533Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-21T20:17:17.839Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-30T23:48:05.135Z
- **Known versions:** 4
- **Latest version:** 2.9.6
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Your agent calls real APIs. You sign in once. Authenticated execution and discovery layer for AI agents, reachable via SKILL.md, local MCP, CLI, HTTP gateway, or Remote MCP. Discover 26,619 API definitions, including 689 exact-name source-verified entries
- **Author:** NordSym
- **Keywords:** mcp, model-context-protocol, ai-agent, ai-agents, claude, gpt, llm, api, api-gateway, api-discovery, api-integration, agentic
- **Artifact files:** 395
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,015,616 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@nordsym/apiclaw/v/2.9.6>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/nordsym/apiclaw.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://apiclaw.cloud/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/nordsym/apiclaw/issues>)