---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@rfdtech/components"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@rfdtech/components/v/2.4.0.md"
package: "@rfdtech/components"
report_status: "published"
title: "@rfdtech/components@2.4.0 npm security report"
verdict: "policy_finding"
version: "2.4.0"
---

# @rfdtech/components@2.4.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. AI tools may load this package's MCP server after restart, without the consumer separately invoking setup.

- **Verdict:** AI-agent control-surface policy finding
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn by default; block when configured
- **Firewall policy:** Warn by default
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Soft block: AI-agent control surface
- **Selected version:** 2.4.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

This finding concerns changes to an AI agent's instructions or configuration without explicit user action. It does not by itself establish malware intent. The CLI warns by default and blocks when configured for this policy.

AI assessment: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Source confirms that npm installation automatically invokes setup, which modifies configuration for multiple AI coding tools and the user's Codex configuration. This meets the policy threshold for blocking install-time mutation of a broad AI-agent control surface.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 97.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-09T10:06:34.006Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-09T10:07:17.224Z
- **Download time:** 1016 ms
- **Static scan time:** 11605 ms
- **AI review time:** 30594 ms
- **Total time:** 43218 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:** Installation automatically configures multiple AI coding tools to launch this package's MCP server. The setup also writes configuration outside the project, including Codex's user-level configuration.

- **Trigger:** Installing the package with npm, which runs its postinstall hook.

- **Impact:** AI tools may load this package's MCP server after restart, without the consumer separately invoking setup.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.mjs, dist/mcp/installers/setup.js, dist/mcp/installers/claude.js, dist/mcp/installers/cursor.js, dist/mcp/installers/codex.js, dist/mcp/installers/opencode.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-09T10:07:17.224Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The hook launches the setup CLI in the consumer project directory. The CLI detects supported AI tools and writes MCP server entries to their configuration files.

- **Attack narrative:** The npm postinstall hook runs setup automatically. Setup detects installed AI tools and adds this package's MCP server to their configuration, including user-level Codex configuration. This is unconsented install-time mutation of several AI-tool control surfaces.

- **Rationale:** Source confirms that npm installation automatically invokes setup, which modifies configuration for multiple AI coding tools and the user's Codex configuration. This meets the policy threshold for blocking install-time mutation of a broad AI-agent control surface.

- **Files touched:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.mjs, dist/mcp/installers/setup.js, dist/mcp/installers/claude.js, dist/mcp/installers/cursor.js, dist/mcp/installers/codex.js, dist/mcp/installers/opencode.js

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 97.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for policy risk:** package.json runs a postinstall script during installation., The postinstall script automatically runs the setup CLI in the consumer project directory., Setup writes MCP configuration for detected Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and OpenCode installations; Codex configuration is written under the user's home directory., The installers add this package's MCP server to AI-tool configuration without a separate setup command.

- **Evidence against:** The setup targets this package's own MCP server and skill files., Project-scoped tools are detected before their installers run, and the installer merges a named server entry into existing configuration.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @rfdtech/components@2.4.0.

- Avoid installing @rfdtech/components@2.4.0. 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@rfdtech/components@2.4.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@rfdtech/components@2.4.0/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/next.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@rfdtech/components@2.4.0/dist/next.cjs>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: Object.defineProperty(exports,Symbol.toStringTag,{value:`Module`});const e=require("./next-BsR5ktCe.cjs");exports.AppBody=e.vn,exports.AppHeader=e.Nr,exports.AppHeaderActions=e.Pr,...
```

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. Critical: Trojan Source Unicode
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/next-BsR5ktCe.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@rfdtech/components@2.4.0/dist/next-BsR5ktCe.cjs>)

Source contains bidi control or invisible Unicode characters associated with Trojan Source attacks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L51: contains invisible/control Unicode U+200B (zero width space)
In order to be iterable, non-array objects must have a [Symbol.iterator]() method.`)}function Rk(e,t){if(e){if(typeof e==`string`)return zk(e,t);var n={}.toString.call(e).slice(8,-1);return n===`Object`&&e.constructor&&(n=e.constructor.name
```

### 8. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@rfdtech/components@2.4.0/dist/index.cjs>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: manifest.main -> dist/index.cjs
Reachable file contains a blocking source-risk pattern.
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 11. 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.

### 12. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.css
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@rfdtech/components@2.4.0/dist/index.css>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```css
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 2
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 13
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 19
- **Development dependencies:** 48
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 32

### Published dependency entries
- @dnd-kit/core ^6.3.1 (Dependency)
- @dnd-kit/sortable ^10.0.0 (Dependency)
- @dnd-kit/utilities ^3.2.2 (Dependency)
- @fontsource/lato ^5.3.0 (Dependency)
- @fontsource/roboto-serif ^5.3.0 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.30.0 (Dependency)
- @tanstack/react-virtual ^3.14.9 (Dependency)
- cmdk ^1.1.1 (Dependency)
- country-flag-icons ^1.6.20 (Dependency)
- libphonenumber-js ^1.13.11 (Dependency)
- lottie-react ^2.4.1 (Dependency)
- sonner ^2.0.8 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.4.3 (Dependency)
- @hookform/resolvers \>=3.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- @radix-ui/react-alert-dialog ^1.1.0 (PeerDependency)
- @radix-ui/react-checkbox ^1.3.0 (PeerDependency)
- @radix-ui/react-dialog ^1.1.0 (PeerDependency)
- @radix-ui/react-popover ^1.1.0 (PeerDependency)
- @radix-ui/react-radio-group ^1.4.0 (PeerDependency)
- @radix-ui/react-select ^2.3.0 (PeerDependency)
- @radix-ui/react-switch ^1.2.0 (PeerDependency)
- @radix-ui/react-tabs ^1.1.0 (PeerDependency)
- lucide-react \>=1.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- next \>=14.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- papaparse \>=5.5.0 \<6 (PeerDependency)
- react \>=18.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- react-dom \>=18.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- react-hook-form \>=7.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- react-router-dom \>=7.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- read-excel-file \>=9 \<10 (PeerDependency)
- write-excel-file \>=4 \<5 (PeerDependency)
- zod \>=3.0.0 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @rfdtech/components
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.4.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-22T13:35:46.493Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-05T09:55:29.672Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-10T16:07:47.463Z
- **Known versions:** 9
- **Latest version:** 2.5.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Shared React component library for Clet projects
- **Keywords:** react, components, gsl, clet, app-switcher, app-launcher, google-apps, product-switcher
- **Artifact files:** 726
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 12,540,966 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@rfdtech/components/v/2.4.0>)
