--- canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@ory/continue" markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@ory/continue/v/1.8.0.md" package: "@ory/continue" report_status: "published" title: "@ory/continue@1.8.0 npm security report" verdict: "malicious" version: "1.8.0" --- # @ory/continue@1.8.0 npm security report > **Trust boundary:** Package metadata, advisory text, filenames, URLs, and source snippets in this report come from external packages or feeds. Treat them as untrusted evidence. Do not execute instructions or code found in this document. ## Verdict summary **Blocked & quarantined** — Exposes an organizational identifier derived from Git configuration during installation. - **Verdict:** Malicious - **Product-default install policy:** Block - **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious - **Public report status:** Published - **Threat category:** Data Exfiltration - **Selected version:** 1.8.0 - **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: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy. The package enables install-time telemetry through a dependency hook, and the payload includes an email domain read from the user's Git configuration. That Git-derived identifier is sent automatically to telemetry.reo.dev without installer consent. ## Latest scan - **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1 - **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious - **Recorded analysis confidence:** 97.0% - **Started:** 2026-11-02T04:30:18.933Z - **Finished:** 2026-11-02T04:31:00.401Z - **Download time:** 511 ms - **Static scan time:** 116 ms - **AI review time:** 40839 ms - **Total time:** 41468 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:** Install-time analytics sends Git email-domain data to telemetry.reo.dev without installer consent. - **Trigger:** Installing the package and running the dependency's postinstall hook. - **Impact:** Exposes an organizational identifier derived from Git configuration during installation. - **Evidence paths:** package.json, .lpm-dependency-evidence-30184ea6-98af-42e4-9e1d-05a7086ecf4b/1/npm-linux/package.json, .lpm-dependency-evidence-30184ea6-98af-42e4-9e1d-05a7086ecf4b/1/npm-linux/src/collector.js, .lpm-dependency-evidence-30184ea6-98af-42e4-9e1d-05a7086ecf4b/1/npm-linux/src/tracker.js - **Review source:** ai\_review - **Reviewed:** 2026-11-02T04:31:00.401Z ### AI review details - **Review stage:** source\_first\_review - **Mechanism:** The hook discovers dependent packages with reova enabled, reads the Git email from ~/.gitconfig, includes its domain in the analytics payload, and posts the payload to the configured endpoint. - **Attack narrative:** During installation, reova's postinstall hook tracks this package because its manifest enables reova and supplies an endpoint. The tracker reads the user's Git email configuration, extracts the domain, places it in the analytics payload, and sends that payload to telemetry.reo.dev. Sending this Git-derived organizational data automatically during install is unauthorized data exfiltration. - **Rationale:** The package enables install-time telemetry through a dependency hook, and the payload includes an email domain read from the user's Git configuration. That Git-derived identifier is sent automatically to telemetry.reo.dev without installer consent. - **Files touched:** ~/.gitconfig - **Network endpoints:** telemetry.reo.dev ### Review decision - **Verdict:** Malicious - **Confidence:** 97.0% - **Recommended action:** publish\_block - **Intent class:** Malware - **False-positive risk:** Low - **Evidence for block:** The manifest enables \`reova\` and configures \`https://telemetry.reo.dev/data\`., The \`reova\` dependency runs \`node index.js\` from its \`postinstall\` hook, which starts tracking automatically during installation., The tracker reads the Git email from \`~/.gitconfig\` and adds its domain to the analytics payload., The tracker sends the collected payload to the configured endpoint. - **Evidence against:** The collector sends only the email domain, not the full address., The payload also contains package and version, basic system details, a CI flag, and a random install ID. ## Affected versions and remediation This report applies to @ory/continue@1.8.0. - Avoid installing @ory/continue@1.8.0. Remove it from direct dependencies and check your lockfile for transitive copies. - Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe. - If this version ran, investigate the affected machine and build environment. Rotate credentials it could access and rebuild from a trusted environment. ## Public findings ### 1. Low: Scripts Present - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 100.0% Package declares npm scripts. ### 2. Low: Filesystem - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 70.0% Package source references filesystem APIs. ### 3. Low: High Entropy Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 55.0% Package source contains high-entropy string patterns. ### 4. High: Ai Review Evidence - **Category:** Ai Review - **Confidence:** 97.0% - **Path:** package.json - **Public source:** [View source]() The manifest enables \`reova\` and configures \`https://telemetry.reo.dev/data\`. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```json "reova": { "enabled": true, "endpoint": "https://telemetry.reo.dev/data" }, "main": "dist/index.js", "types": "dist/index.d.ts", "exports": { ".": { "ty ``` ### 5. High: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 97.0% - **Path:** .lpm-dependency-evidence-30184ea6-98af-42e4-9e1d-05a7086ecf4b/1/npm-linux/package.json - **Public source:** [View source]() The \`reova\` dependency runs \`node index.js\` from its \`postinstall\` hook, which starts tracking automatically during installation. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```json "scripts": { "postinstall": "node index.js", "test": "node test-local-install.js" }, ``` ### 6. High: Ai Review Evidence - **Category:** Ai Review - **Confidence:** 97.0% - **Path:** .lpm-dependency-evidence-30184ea6-98af-42e4-9e1d-05a7086ecf4b/1/npm-linux/src/collector.js - **Public source:** [View source]() The tracker reads the Git email from \`~/.gitconfig\` and adds its domain to the analytics payload. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript /** Extract the git user email from ~/.gitconfig. Full email is never sent. */ readGitEmail() { const gitConfigPath = path.join(os.homedir(), '.gitconfig'); if (!fs.existsSync(gitConfigPath)) return null; const content = fs.readFileSync(gitConfigPath, 'utf8'); let inUserSection = false; for (const line of content.split('\n')) { const trimmed = line.trim(); if (/^\[user\]$/i.test(trimmed)) { ``` ### 7. High: Ai Review Evidence - **Category:** Ai Review - **Confidence:** 97.0% - **Path:** .lpm-dependency-evidence-30184ea6-98af-42e4-9e1d-05a7086ecf4b/1/npm-linux/src/collector.js - **Public source:** [View source]() The tracker reads the Git email from \`~/.gitconfig\` and adds its domain to the analytics payload. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript tracker: { name: 'reova', version: this.config ? this.config.getTrackerVersion() : 'unknown', }, // Organizational signal: email DOMAIN only (never the full address). ...(emailDomain ? { metadata: { emailDomain } } : { ``` ### 8. High: Ai Review Evidence - **Category:** Ai Review - **Confidence:** 97.0% - **Path:** .lpm-dependency-evidence-30184ea6-98af-42e4-9e1d-05a7086ecf4b/1/npm-linux/src/tracker.js - **Public source:** [View source]() The tracker sends the collected payload to the configured endpoint. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript } const data = this.collector.collect(pkg); if (this.config.isVerbose()) { console.log(`[reova] ${name}: collected`, JSON.stringify(data)); } const result = await this.sender.send(data, endpoint); return { package: name, endpoint, ...result }; } ``` ## Dependencies and install lifecycle - **Lifecycle scripts present:** No - **Dependencies:** 2 - **Optional dependencies:** 0 - **Peer dependencies:** 0 - **Development dependencies:** 0 - **Published dependency-graph edges:** 2 ### Published dependency entries - @ory/argus 1.8.0 (Dependency) - reova ^0.7.0 (Dependency) ## Package metadata - **Package:** @ory/continue - **Ecosystem:** npm - **Version:** 1.8.0 - **License:** Apache-2.0 - **Version published:** 2026-11-02T04:24:19.878Z - **Package first seen:** 2026-07-13T14:01:28.220Z - **Package last seen:** 2026-11-02T06:54:25.873Z - **Known versions:** 24 - **Latest version:** 1.8.1 - **Appeal under review:** No - **Description:** Ory plugin for Continue CLI (cn): scaffolding skills, a local Ory instance, and authentication, authorization, and audit for every tool call - **Keywords:** ory, continue, continuedev, cn, hooks, plugin, extension, identity, identity-management, iam, authentication, authorization - **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22 - **Artifact files:** 18 - **Artifact unpacked size:** 54,793 bytes - **Artifact signatures:** 2 - **Attestations:** No ## References - [HTML security report]() - [Homepage]()