---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@pilllesss/yorn/v/1.0.159"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@pilllesss/yorn/v/1.0.159.md"
package: "@pilllesss/yorn"
report_status: "published"
title: "@pilllesss/yorn@1.0.159 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.0.159"
---

# @pilllesss/yorn@1.0.159 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 21 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Typosquat
- **Selected version:** 1.0.159
- **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 appears to be an unaffiliated republishing of a powerful coding-agent CLI, which is a meaningful supply-chain risk. The inspected source does not establish concrete malicious behavior or an install-time attack chain.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 72.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-27T02:10:08.216Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-27T02:12:15.251Z
- **Download time:** 1023 ms
- **Static scan time:** 7709 ms
- **AI review time:** 118302 ms
- **Total time:** 127035 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 is a republished AI coding-agent CLI whose runtime can write files and invoke user-requested tools. No unconsented install-time attack or verified data-exfiltration path was confirmed.

- **Trigger:** A user runs the yorn command and permits its coding-agent actions.

- **Impact:** It has the normal high authority of a user-invoked coding agent; the publisher mismatch makes that authority risky.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-27T02:12:15.251Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** A repackaged command-line coding agent executes runtime tools.

- **Rationale:** This appears to be an unaffiliated republishing of a powerful coding-agent CLI, which is a meaningful supply-chain risk. The inspected source does not establish concrete malicious behavior or an install-time attack chain.

- **Files touched:** package.json, dist/yorn.cjs

- **Network endpoints:** registry.npmjs.org

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 72.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The package is named @pilllesss/yorn, but its bundled runtime identifies its upstream repository as siwat/yorn., The published command is a large AI coding-agent runtime with command execution and file-write capabilities.

- **Evidence against:** The only lifecycle hook is prepublishOnly, so installation does not run package code., Inspection did not confirm the claimed fixed credential gateway, foreign-package overwrite, or command-output exfiltration., The inspected process and file operations are runtime CLI features rather than install-time behavior.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @pilllesss/yorn@1.0.159.

- Review the evidence and your use of @pilllesss/yorn@1.0.159 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: 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:** dist/yorn.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pilllesss/yorn@1.0.159/dist/yorn.cjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L22: \r
L23: `),n=!1,s=!1;e.on("response",e=>{let{headers:t}=e;n="chunked"===t[tHo.build(["encodi","tran","ng","sfer-"],[1,3,0,2])]&&!t[tHo.build([tHo.build(["content-","le"],[0,1]),"ngth"],[0,...
L24: `)}function eZo(e){return e.map(e=>"text"===e.type?e.text:"thinking"===e.type?e.thinking:`${e.name}:${JSON.stringify(e.arguments)}`).join(`
```

### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/yorn.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pilllesss/yorn@1.0.159/dist/yorn.cjs>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: globalThis.__yorn_dynamic_import = (m) => import(m);
L3: var e,t,i,r,n,s,l,a,o,u,d,c,b,h,p,m,f,g,_,y,E,S,v,A,w,T,C,I,x,R,O,k,N,D,P,M,L,F,U,B,$,j,G,q,H,W,V,Y,K,z,Q,J,X,Z,ee,et,ei,er,en,es,el,ea,eo,eu,ed,ec,eb,eh,ep,em,ef,eg,e_,ey,eE,eS,ev...
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/yorn.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pilllesss/yorn@1.0.159/dist/yorn.cjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L11: ${eLk(e)}`);if(null==o)throw new Il(`missing choices[${r}].tool_calls[${i}].function.arguments
L12: ${eLk(e)}`);return{...a,id:l,type:s,function:{...d,name:u,arguments:o}}})}}:{...s,message:{...u,content:l,role:d,refusal:t.refusal??null},finish_reason:i,index:r,logprobs:n}}),crea...
L13: Content-Disposition: form-data; name="`;return e.forEach((e,t)=>"string"==typeof e?r.push(n+Py(t)+`"\r
...
L22: \r
L23: `),n=!1,s=!1;e.on("response",e=>{let{headers:t}=e;n="chunked"===t[tHo.build(["encodi","tran","ng","sfer-"],[1,3,0,2])]&&!t[tHo.build([tHo.build(["content-","le"],[0,1]),"ngth"],[0,...
L24: `)}function eZo(e){return e.map(e=>"text"===e.type?e.text:"thinking"===e.type?e.thinking:`${e.name}:${JSON.stringify(e.arguments)}`).join(`
```

### 9. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/yorn.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pilllesss/yorn@1.0.159/dist/yorn.cjs>)

Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration.
dist/yorn.cjs:
`),n=!1,s=!1;e.on("response",e=>{let{headers:t}=e;n="chunked"===t[tHo.build(["encodi","tran","ng","sfer-"],[1,3,0,2])]&&!t[tHo.build([tHo.build(["content-","le"],[0,1]),"ngth"],[0,...
`)}function eZb(e,t){let i=Math.min(e.length,t.length),r=0;for(;r<i&&e[r]===t[r];)r++;return r}function eZh(e,t,i,r){let n=eZc(t),s=eZs(n),l=eZs(eZo(e.content)),a=s,o=0,u=0,d=i?.se...
`){return"string"==typeof e?e:e.filter(e=>"text"===e.type).map(e=>e.text).join(t)}function eZB(e,t){return Yb.Unsafe({type:"string",enum:e,...t?.description&&{description:t.descrip...
--api-key <key>                API key (defaults to env vars)
# Print a prov
```

### 10. High: Entrypoint Foreign Package Code Overwrite
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/yorn.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pilllesss/yorn@1.0.159/dist/yorn.cjs>)

Manifest-reachable source overwrites another installed package with package-defined remote behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source resolves another installed package, overwrites its runtime code, and injects package-defined remote behavior.
dist/yorn.cjs:
`)),r.push(`--${i}--`),new t(r,{type:tHo.build(["multi","-data;","part","/form"," boun","dary="],[0,2,3,1,4,5])+i})}function eL3(e){let t=e.match(/\bfilename=("(.*?)"|([^()<>@,;:\\...
AZURE_OPENAI_BASE_URL            - Azure OpenAI/Cognitive Services base URL (e.g. https://{resource}.openai.azure.com)
YORN_SHARE_VIEWER_URL            - Base URL for /share command (default: https://pi.dev/session/)
`),a=t.content.some(e=>"image"===e.type),d={role:"tool",content:eMB(l.length>0?l:a?tHo.build(["ed im",tHo.build(["(see atta","ch"],[0,1]),"age)"],[1,0,2]):tHo.build(["(no ","t)",tH...
</html>`}function tt3(e){return tt2({title:tHo.build(["uccess","
```

### 11. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/yorn.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pilllesss/yorn@1.0.159/dist/yorn.cjs>)

Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L7: `),u.push(`\r
L8: `)}u.push(null)}),u}async function eDA(e,t){let i=0,r=[],n=e.getReader(),s=!1;for(;!s;){let{done:e,value:l}=await n.read();if(l&&(r.push(l),i+=l?.byteLength??0),i>=t)break;s=e}n.re...
L9: ${eLk(e)}`);if(null==s)throw new Il(`missing choices[${r}].tool_calls[${i}].type
...
L11: ${eLk(e)}`);if(null==o)throw new Il(`missing choices[${r}].tool_calls[${i}].function.arguments
L12: ${eLk(e)}`);return{...a,id:l,type:s,function:{...d,name:u,arguments:o}}})}}:{...s,message:{...u,content:l,role:d,refusal:t.refusal??null},finish_reason:i,index:r,logprobs:n}}),crea...
L13: Content-Disposition: form-data; name="`;return e.forEach((e,t)=>"string"==typeof e?r.push(n+Py(t)+`"\r
...
L22: \r
L23: `),n=!1,s=!1;e.on("response",e=>{let{headers:t}=e;n="chunked"===t[tHo.build(["encodi","tran
```

### 12. High: Cloud Metadata Access
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/yorn.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pilllesss/yorn@1.0.159/dist/yorn.cjs>)

Source reaches cloud instance metadata or link-local credential endpoints.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: globalThis.__yorn_dynamic_import = (m) => import(m);
L3: var e,t,i,r,n,s,l,a,o,u,d,c,b,h,p,m,f,g,_,y,E,S,v,A,w,T,C,I,x,R,O,k,N,D,P,M,L,F,U,B,$,j,G,q,H,W,V,Y,K,z,Q,J,X,Z,ee,et,ei,er,en,es,el,ea,eo,eu,ed,ec,eb,eh,ep,em,ef,eg,e_,ey,eE,eS,ev...
L4: `),u.push(e),u.push(`\r
...
L7: `),u.push(`\r
L8: `)}u.push(null)}),u}async function eDA(e,t){let i=0,r=[],n=e.getReader(),s=!1;for(;!s;){let{done:e,value:l}=await n.read();if(l&&(r.push(l),i+=l?.byteLength??0),i>=t)break;s=e}n.re...
L9: ${eLk(e)}`);if(null==s)throw new Il(`missing choices[${r}].tool_calls[${i}].type
...
L11: ${eLk(e)}`);if(null==o)throw new Il(`missing choices[${r}].tool_calls[${i}].function.arguments
L12: ${eLk(e)}`);return{...a,id:l,type:s,function:{...d,name:u,arguments:o}}})}}:{...s,message:{...u,content:l,role:d,refusal:t.
```

### 13. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/yorn.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pilllesss/yorn@1.0.159/dist/yorn.cjs>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches command-output exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable command-output exfiltration chain: manifest.bin -> dist/yorn.cjs
L7: `),u.push(`\r
L8: `)}u.push(null)}),u}async function eDA(e,t){let i=0,r=[],n=e.getReader(),s=!1;for(;!s;){let{done:e,value:l}=await n.read();if(l&&(r.push(l),i+=l?.byteLength??0),i>=t)break;s=e}n.re...
L9: ${eLk(e)}`);if(null==s)throw new Il(`missing choices[${r}].tool_calls[${i}].type
...
L11: ${eLk(e)}`);if(null==o)throw new Il(`missing choices[${r}].tool_calls[${i}].function.arguments
L12: ${eLk(e)}`);return{...a,id:l,type:s,function:{...d,name:u,arguments:o}}})}}:{...s,message:{...u,content:l,role:d,refusal:t.refusal??null},finish_reason:i,index:r,logprobs:n}}),crea...
L13: Content-Disposition: form-data; name="`;return e.forEach((e,t)=>"string"==typeof e?r.push(n+Py(t)+`"\r
...
L22: \r
L23: `),n=!1,
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 15. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/skills/screenshot/scripts/take\_screenshot.py
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pilllesss/yorn@1.0.159/dist/skills/screenshot/scripts/take_screenshot.py>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```python
path = dist/skills/screenshot/scripts/take_screenshot.py
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 19659
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 16. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/yorn.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pilllesss/yorn@1.0.159/dist/yorn.cjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/yorn.cjs
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 7684704
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 17. Medium: Oversized Cli Entrypoint
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/yorn.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pilllesss/yorn@1.0.159/dist/yorn.cjs>)

Package contains an oversized executable-looking CLI entrypoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/yorn.cjs
kind = oversized_cli_entrypoint
sizeBytes = 7684704
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 18. 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.

### 19. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/yorn.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pilllesss/yorn@1.0.159/dist/yorn.cjs>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_path_work_budget_exceeded; limitedFiles = 1
```

### 20. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/yorn.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pilllesss/yorn@1.0.159/dist/yorn.cjs>)

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 = @pilllesss/yorn@1.0.92
matchedPath = dist/yorn.cjs
matchedIdentity = npm:QHBpbGxsZXNzcy95b3Ju:1.0.92
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 21. High: Known Malware Source Fingerprint Signature
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/yorn.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pilllesss/yorn@1.0.159/dist/yorn.cjs>)

Source fingerprint signature matches a known malicious package signature; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = malicious_source_fingerprint_signature
signature = 8eb5d4d2248a43c7
signatureType = suspicious_hashes
sourceLabel = final_verdict:malicious
matchedPackage = @pilllesss/yorn@1.0.92
matchedPath = dist/yorn.cjs
matchedIdentity = npm:QHBpbGxsZXNzcy95b3Ju:1.0.92
similarity = 1.000
shingleOverlap = 2
summary = package final verdict is malicious
```

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @pilllesss/yorn
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.159
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-26T23:35:37.215Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-20T15:25:57.938Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-13T10:42:34.324Z
- **Known versions:** 110
- **Latest version:** 0.0.1-security
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@pilllesss/yorn/v/1.0.159>)