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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@openuidev/lang-core/v/0.2.18"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@openuidev/lang-core/v/0.2.18.md"
package: "@openuidev/lang-core"
report_status: "published"
title: "@openuidev/lang-core@0.2.18 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.2.18"
---

# @openuidev/lang-core@0.2.18 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 14 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Data Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 0.2.18
- **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 is an unconsented install-time telemetry and local-state mutation path, but the inspected source limits its payload to pseudonymous identifiers and operational metadata. It warrants a warning rather than a malware block.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-12T14:16:44.124Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-12T14:17:39.005Z
- **Download time:** 780 ms
- **Static scan time:** 872 ms
- **AI review time:** 53228 ms
- **Total time:** 54881 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:** Installing the package runs telemetry automatically. It persists a local identifier and sends a salted project hash plus environment and platform metadata.

- **Trigger:** npm installation runs the postinstall lifecycle hook.

- **Impact:** A network observer receives a stable pseudonymous installation and project identifier with platform metadata.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/postinstall.cjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-12T14:17:39.005Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** automatic installation telemetry with Git-origin-derived project hashing

- **Rationale:** This is an unconsented install-time telemetry and local-state mutation path, but the inspected source limits its payload to pseudonymous identifiers and operational metadata. It warrants a warning rather than a malware block.

- **Files touched:** postinstall.cjs, dist/postinstall.cjs, ~/.config/openui/telemetry.json

- **Network endpoints:** https://dgoeivjus9jfp.cloudfront.net/capture/

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** An npm postinstall hook automatically runs package code., The hook derives a salted project identifier from the Git origin, repository URL, or install root and sends telemetry., The hook persists a telemetry identifier and salt in the user's OpenUI config directory., The hook invokes Git locally to read the remote origin.

- **Evidence against:** The transmitted project identifier is SHA-256 hashed with a locally stored salt rather than sent raw., Telemetry has documented environment-variable opt-outs and a two-second request timeout., No payload download, dynamic code execution, destructive action, or AI-agent configuration mutation was found.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @openuidev/lang-core@0.2.18.

- Review the evidence and your use of @openuidev/lang-core@0.2.18 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/@openuidev/lang-core@0.2.18/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@openuidev/lang-core@0.2.18/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@openuidev/lang-core@0.2.18/dist/index.cjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L99: function readGitOrigin(processLike) {
L100: const execFile = (processLike.getBuiltinModule?.("node:child_process"))?.execFile;
L101: if (!execFile) return Promise.resolve(void 0);
```

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

Package source references shell execution.

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

Package source references network APIs.

### 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: Copied Package Dependency Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 83.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@openuidev/lang-core@0.2.18/dist/index.cjs>)

Package metadata claims a different repository identity while copied source loads a runtime dependency bridge.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
package = @openuidev/lang-core; repositoryIdentity = openui; dependency = ci-info
L142: try {
L143: const ciInfo = await import("ci-info");
L144: return {
```

### 10. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@openuidev/lang-core@0.2.18/dist/index.cjs>)

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/index.cjs spawns dist/shared-BuVpfVsg.cjs; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L79: };
L80: if (typeof target.WebSocketPair === "function") return { name: "edge" };
L81: if (isBrowserWorker()) return void 0;
...
L99: function readGitOrigin(processLike) {
L100: const execFile = (processLike.getBuiltinModule?.("node:child_process"))?.execFile;
L101: if (!execFile) return Promise.resolve(void 0);
...
L112: windowsHide: true
L113: }, (error, stdout) => {
L114: const origin = stdout?.trim();
...
L159: headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
L160: body: JSON.stringify({
L161: api_key: postHog.apiKey,
```

### 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. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.d.cts\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@openuidev/lang-core@0.2.18/dist/index.d.cts%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
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 2
- **Development dependencies:** 3
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 3

### Published dependency entries
- ci-info ^4.4.0 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk \>=1.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- zod ^3.25.0 || ^4.0.0 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @openuidev/lang-core
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.2.18
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-10T09:47:19.732Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-12T05:58:52.118Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-16T01:45:08.632Z
- **Known versions:** 12
- **Latest version:** 1.0.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Framework-agnostic core for OpenUI Lang: parser, prompt generation, validation, and type definitions
- **Author:** engineering@thesys.dev
- **Maintainers:** abhithesys
- **Keywords:** openui, openui-lang, parser, prompt-generation, validation, zod, llm, generative-ui, framework-agnostic
- **Artifact files:** 30
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,164,088 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@openuidev/lang-core/v/0.2.18>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/thesysdev/openui>)
- [Homepage](<https://openui.com/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/thesysdev/openui/issues>)
