---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@nxuss/lemma/v/1.8.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@nxuss/lemma/v/1.8.1.md"
package: "@nxuss/lemma"
report_status: "published"
title: "@nxuss/lemma@1.8.1 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.8.1"
---

# @nxuss/lemma@1.8.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as AI-agent capability risk** — Allowed by default with warning: agent-facing configuration or capability changes need review before use.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only AI-agent capability risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** AI-agent capability abuse
- **Selected version:** 1.8.1
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Review flagged AI-agent configuration or capability changes. This remains warn-only unless evidence shows foreign-agent hijack through preinstall/install/postinstall, hidden persistence, exfiltration, remote code execution, or other concrete malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T21:47:36.362Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T21:48:27.005Z
- **Download time:** 765 ms
- **Static scan time:** 4002 ms
- **AI review time:** 45873 ms
- **Total time:** 50643 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** An explicit \`lemma start\` modifies project and user AI-agent configuration, injects rules directing agents to use Lemma tools, and starts clipboard monitoring unless disabled. Optional tenant cloud sync uploads prompts and cache data.

- **Trigger:** User runs \`lemma start\` without \`--no-configure\` or \`--no-clipboard\`.

- **Impact:** Changes AI-agent behavior and can expose prompt/cache content to the package service when tenant sync is enabled.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, lemma-proxy.cjs, dist/cjs/cli/lemma-proxy.js, dist/cjs/utils/ClipboardWatcher.js, dist/cjs/cloud/CloudSyncClient.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-05T21:48:27.005Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Default AI-agent configuration mutation, rule injection, clipboard persistence, and optional cloud cache sync.

- **Rationale:** Source confirms a real default configuration/persistence surface, but no lifecycle hook or import-time execution establishes unconsented installation-time compromise. Flag as warn for the explicit-command AI-agent control and optional data sync.

- **Files touched:** .env, .mcp.json, .vscode/mcp.json, .cursorrules, .clinerules, ~/.codex/config.toml, ~/.claude.json

- **Network endpoints:** https://lemma.nxus.studio/api/v1/tenant-cache/query, https://lemma.nxus.studio/api/v1/tenant-cache/store

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** \`lemma start\` auto-registers MCP servers in multiple AI-tool configs., It appends mandatory Lemma instructions to project AI rule files., \`lemma start\` starts a detached clipboard watcher by default., Cloud sync can send prompts and cached data to \`lemma.nxus.studio\` when \`LEMMA\_TENANT\_ID\` is set.

- **Evidence against:** \`package.json\` has no preinstall/install/postinstall hook., These mutations require an explicit CLI command, not package import or installation., Clipboard implementation uses local \`pbpaste\`/\`pbcopy\`; no network send is present.

## Public findings

### 1. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/init.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nxuss/lemma@1.8.1/bin/init.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: const os = require('os');
L7: const { execSync, spawn } = require('child_process');
L8:
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/esm/core/GhostListener.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nxuss/lemma@1.8.1/dist/esm/core/GhostListener.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L20: this.currentProcess = spawn(command, args, {
L21: shell: true,
L22: stdio: ['inherit', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
```

### 5. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** dist/esm/pr-review/analyzers/SecurityScanner.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nxuss/lemma@1.8.1/dist/esm/pr-review/analyzers/SecurityScanner.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L13: { ruleId: "sec-exec-user-input", pattern: /(?:exec|execSync|spawn|execFile)\s*\(\s*(?:`[^`]*\$\{|["'][^"']*["']\s*\+)/gi, label: "Command injection via exec/spawn", severity: "CRIT...
L14: { ruleId: "sec-eval", pattern: /\beval\s*\(\s*(?:req\.|params|body|query|input|userInput)/gi, label: "eval() with user input", severity: "CRITICAL" },
L15: ];
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** sdks/crewai/dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nxuss/lemma@1.8.1/sdks/crewai/dist/index.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: exports.LemmaCrew = exports.LemmaCrewAgent = void 0;
L7: const ws_1 = __importDefault(require("ws"));
L8: const uuid_1 = require("uuid");
```

### 7. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/esm/proxy/ProjectStore.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nxuss/lemma@1.8.1/dist/esm/proxy/ProjectStore.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: * Project-aware storage resolver:
L5: * - Detects project identity from package.json → cwd basename fallback
L6: * - Hashes project name to a 12-char hex prefix for path safety
...
L23: // ─── Constants ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
L24: const HOME = process.env.HOME || process.env.USERPROFILE || '~';
L25: export const CACHE_DIR = path.join(HOME, '.lemma-cache');
...
L66: detectProjectName() {
L67: const cwd = process.cwd();
L68: const pkgPath = path.join(cwd, 'package.json');
...
L70: try {
L71: const pkg = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(pkgPath, 'utf8'));
L72: if (pkg.name)
```

### 8. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 9. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 10. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/init.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nxuss/lemma@1.8.1/bin/init.js>)

Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: const os = require('os');
L7: const { execSync, spawn } = require('child_process');
L8: 
L9: const LEMMA_CACHE = path.join(os.homedir(), '.lemma-cache');
L10: const BRAIN_FILE = path.join(LEMMA_CACHE, 'lemma_brain.json');
...
L18: 
L19: function step(msg) { process.stderr.write(`  ${CYAN}✦${RESET} ${msg}\n`); }
L20: 
...
L39: try {
L40: let config = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(configFile, 'utf8'));
L41: if (!config.models) config.models = [];
L42: const already = config.models.some(m => m.apiBase === `http://localhost:${PORT}`);
```

### 11. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 12. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/esm/cli/lemma-proxy.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nxuss/lemma@1.8.1/dist/esm/cli/lemma-proxy.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2059: if (BIND_HOST !== '127.0.0.1' && BIND_HOST !== 'localhost') {
L2060: const authEnabled = process.env.AUTH_ENABLED === 'true';
L2061: if (!authEnabled) {
...
L2071: if (this.dashboardPath && fs.existsSync(this.dashboardPath)) {
L2072: console.log(`📊 Dashboard UI          : \x1b[36mhttp://localhost:${this.port}/dashboard/\x1b[0m`);
L2073: if (this.openBrowser) {
L2074: setTimeout(() => {
L2075: const { exec } = require('child_process');
L2076: const opener = process.platform === 'darwin' ? 'open' : (process.platform === 'win32' ? 'start' : 'xdg-open');
```

### 13. Critical: Hardcoded Runtime Data Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/esm/cli/lemma-proxy.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nxuss/lemma@1.8.1/dist/esm/cli/lemma-proxy.js>)

Source sends credentials or rich application records to a package-controlled external receiver enabled by default.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
A module-load call serializes the broad process environment, working directory, and command-line arguments and posts them to a literal external destination.
dist/esm/cli/lemma-proxy.js:
const resp = await fetch(url, { method: 'HEAD', signal: AbortSignal.timeout(2000) });
fs.writeFileSync(filePath, JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
const cwd = process.cwd();
const gitignorePath = path.join(process.cwd(), '.gitignore');
fs.writeFileSync(gitignorePath, lemmaRules);
const envFile = path.join(process.cwd(), '.env');
const mcpDir = path.join(process.cwd(), '.lemma', 'mcp');
fs.writeFileSync(claudeConfigFile, JSON.stringify(claudeConfig, null, 2));
```

### 14. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/esm/cli/lemma-proxy.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nxuss/lemma@1.8.1/dist/esm/cli/lemma-proxy.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L7: import { ChromaClient } from 'chromadb';
L8: import https from 'https';
L9: import http from 'http';
...
L14: const paths = [
L15: path.join(__dirname, '../../package.json'),
L16: path.join(__dirname, '../../../package.json'),
...
L21: try {
L22: const pkg = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(p, 'utf8'));
L23: if (pkg.version)
...
L32: function ask(query) {
L33: const rl = readline.createInterface({ input: process.stdin, output: process.stdout });
L34: return new Promise(resolve => rl.question(query, ans => { rl.close(); resolve(ans); }));
```

### 15. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** bin/init.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nxuss/lemma@1.8.1/bin/init.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: bin/init.js spawns dist/cjs/embed/index.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L6: const os = require('os');
L7: const { execSync, spawn } = require('child_process');
L8: 
L9: const LEMMA_CACHE = path.join(os.homedir(), '.lemma-cache');
L10: const BRAIN_FILE = path.join(LEMMA_CACHE, 'lemma_brain.json');
...
L18: 
L19: function step(msg) { process.stderr.write(`  ${CYAN}✦${RESET} ${msg}\n`); }
L20: 
...
L39: try {
L40: let config = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(configFile, 'utf8'));
L41: if (!config.models) config.models = [];
L42: const already = config.models.some(m => m.apiBase === `http://localhost:${PORT}`);
```

### 16. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/esm/mcp/tools.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nxuss/lemma@1.8.1/dist/esm/mcp/tools.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2164: fs.writeFileSync(sandboxTsconfigPath, JSON.stringify(sandboxTsconfig, null, 2));
L2165: const tscOut = execSync(`npx tsc --noEmit --project "${sandboxTsconfigPath}" 2>&1 | head -40 || true`, { timeout: 20000, encoding: "utf8", cwd: sandboxDir });
L2166: const relevantErrors = tscOut
```

### 17. Medium: Protestware
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 90.0%

Package source has broad protestware-like patterns that need review.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 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: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/cjs/proxy/ContextInjector.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nxuss/lemma@1.8.1/dist/cjs/proxy/ContextInjector.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @nxuss/lemma@1.0.0
matchedPath = dist/cjs/proxy/ContextInjector.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QG54dXNzL2xlbW1h:1.0.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 23. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/cjs/cloud/KeyManager.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nxuss/lemma@1.8.1/dist/cjs/cloud/KeyManager.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @nxuss/lemma@1.0.0
matchedPath = dist/cjs/cloud/KeyManager.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QG54dXNzL2xlbW1h:1.0.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 24. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/cjs/core/GhostListener.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nxuss/lemma@1.8.1/dist/cjs/core/GhostListener.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @nxuss/lemma@1.0.0
matchedPath = dist/cjs/core/GhostListener.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QG54dXNzL2xlbW1h:1.0.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 25. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/cjs/proxy/AgentMultiplexer.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nxuss/lemma@1.8.1/dist/cjs/proxy/AgentMultiplexer.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @nxuss/lemma@1.0.0
matchedPath = dist/cjs/proxy/AgentMultiplexer.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QG54dXNzL2xlbW1h:1.0.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 26. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/cjs/proxy/KeyManager.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nxuss/lemma@1.8.1/dist/cjs/proxy/KeyManager.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @nxuss/lemma@1.0.0
matchedPath = dist/cjs/proxy/KeyManager.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QG54dXNzL2xlbW1h:1.0.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 11
- **Optional dependencies:** 4
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 11
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 15

### Published dependency entries
- @chroma-core/default-embed ^0.1.9 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.29.0 (Dependency)
- axios ^1.6.0 (Dependency)
- commander ^14.0.3 (Dependency)
- cors ^2.8.6 (Dependency)
- express ^4.18.2 (Dependency)
- openai ^6.37.0 (Dependency)
- pg ^8.11.0 (Dependency)
- socket.io ^4.7.2 (Dependency)
- typescript ^5.3.3 (Dependency)
- uuid ^14.0.0 (Dependency)
- @xenova/transformers ^2.17.0 (OptionalDependency)
- chromadb ^3.4.3 (OptionalDependency)
- dotenv ^17.4.2 (OptionalDependency)
- ws ^8.16.0 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @nxuss/lemma
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.8.1
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-05T14:52:11.723Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-05T21:47:10.898Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-19T15:06:10.826Z
- **Known versions:** 11
- **Latest version:** 1.11.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Intelligent AI Gateway for IDEs & Agents — Semantic cache, Privacy Firewall, Infrastructure Command Center, and Autonomous Cost-Optimization.
- **Author:** Nxus Studio
- **Maintainers:** nxus.studio
- **Keywords:** semantic-cache, privacy-firewall, ai-security, cost-optimization, intelligent-proxy, ai-agents, orchestration, ide-sync, llm-gateway, openai-proxy, anthropic-proxy, vector-database
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 1134
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 8,701,826 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@nxuss/lemma/v/1.8.1>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Nxusbets/lemma>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/Nxusbets/lemma#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Nxusbets/lemma/issues>)