---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@scarn/cli/v/0.8.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@scarn/cli/v/0.8.2.md"
package: "@scarn/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@scarn/cli@0.8.2 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.8.2"
---

# @scarn/cli@0.8.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 19 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.8.2
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The install hook's network activity is a fallback to retrieve the package's own platform binary when npm fails to install its optional dependency. The flagged bundle uses credentials for matching GitHub or GitHub Container Registry requests, and the reviewed code did not show credential exfiltration.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-01T21:32:10.428Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-01T21:32:48.967Z
- **Download time:** 510 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1712 ms
- **AI review time:** 36316 ms
- **Total time:** 38539 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:** No attack was identified; postinstall can recover the package's platform binary when its optional dependency is missing.

- **Trigger:** During npm postinstall, only when the supported platform package cannot be resolved.

- **Impact:** Completes installation of the CLI after an optional dependency download failure.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-01T21:32:48.967Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Fetches that package's metadata and tarball from the configured npm registry, extracts its binary, and writes it under dist/.

- **Rationale:** The install hook's network activity is a fallback to retrieve the package's own platform binary when npm fails to install its optional dependency. The flagged bundle uses credentials for matching GitHub or GitHub Container Registry requests, and the reviewed code did not show credential exfiltration.

- **Files touched:** dist/

- **Network endpoints:** registry.npmjs.org, api.github.com, github.com, ghcr.io, containers.dev

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The only lifecycle hook is postinstall, which runs bin/postinstall.js., The fallback download uses the configured npm registry, defaulting to registry.npmjs.org., The postinstall fetches metadata for the selected platform package and version, then retrieves its tarball to recover the CLI binary., The bundled devcontainer code attaches GITHUB\_TOKEN only for GitHub repository or GitHub tarball requests; its GHCR auth path is restricted to ghcr.io.

- **Evidence against:** The postinstall skips recovery when SCARN\_DIST\_DIR is set, the platform is unsupported, or the optional platform package resolves., The install-time network operation retrieves the package's platform binary and writes it under dist/., No reviewed source showed credentials, environment values, or command output being sent to an unrelated collector.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @scarn/cli@0.8.2.

- Review the evidence and your use of @scarn/cli@0.8.2 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/@scarn/cli@0.8.2/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node bin/postinstall.js
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@scarn/cli@0.8.2/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node bin/postinstall.js
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/devcontainer/dist/spec-node/devcontainers-cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@scarn/cli@0.8.2/dist/devcontainer/dist/spec-node/devcontainers-cli.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L145: `)+`\r
L146: `}function my(A,e,t){return e=e.filter(i=>i.length).sort((i,r)=>r.length-i.length),e.length?{event:i=>{"text"in i?A.event({...i,text:cy(i.text,t,e)}):i.type==="progress"&&i.stepDet...
L147: `)),s.write(Ue(D.toString()))),g&&l&&s.write(`Exit code ${l}`),g&&h&&s.write(`Process signal ${h}`),d?Q({message:`Command failed: ${t} ${(i||[]).join(" ")}`,stdout:p,stderr:D,code:...
```

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@scarn/cli@0.8.2/bin/postinstall.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L36: 
L37: const { mkdirSync, renameSync, writeFileSync, chmodSync } = require("node:fs");
L38: const { resolve } = require("node:path");
```

### 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: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/devcontainer/dist/spec-node/devcontainers-cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@scarn/cli@0.8.2/dist/devcontainer/dist/spec-node/devcontainers-cli.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L136: `,n=Buffer.byteLength(r),o=Math.floor(Math.log(n)/Math.log(10))+1;return n+o>=Math.pow(10,o)&&(o+=1),o+n+r}static parse(e,t,i=!1){return new Wm(WK(VK(e),t),i)}},WK=(A,e)=>e?Object....
L137: `).reduce(ZK,Object.create(null)),ZK=(A,e)=>{let t=parseInt(e,10);if(t!==Buffer.byteLength(e)+1)return A;e=e.slice((t+" ").length);let i=e.split("="),r=i.shift();if(!r)return A;let...
L138: `)}}}function ie(A,e=2){return{event:A.event,write(t,i=e){A.event({type:"text",level:i,timestamp:Date.now(),text:t})},raw(t,i=e){A.event({type:"raw",level:i,timestamp:Date.now(),te...
...
L145: `)+`\r
L146: `}function my(A,e,t){return e=e.filter(i=>i.length).sort((i,r)=>r.length-i.length),e.length?{event:i=>{"text"in i?A.event({...i,text:cy(i.text,t,e)}):i.type==="progress"&&i.stepDet...
L147: `)),s.write(Ue(D.
```

### 10. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/devcontainer/dist/spec-node/devcontainers-cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@scarn/cli@0.8.2/dist/devcontainer/dist/spec-node/devcontainers-cli.js>)

Source appears to send environment or credential material to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: var hL=Object.create;var LI=Object.defineProperty;var fL=Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor;var dL=Object.getOwnPropertyNames;var pL=Object.getPrototypeOf,DL=Object.prototype.hasOwnPr...
L7: `)};function sw(A){var e=/\.[^.]*$/.exec(A);return e?e.index+1:A.length}function gw(A,e,t){if(A.reduce)return A.reduce(e,t);for(var i=0,r=arguments.length>=3?t:A[i++];i<A.length;i+...
L8: 
L9: `),x())}function x(k){if(k||l--,u++,c===u&&l===0&&r!==void 0)return r(B||null)}}});var by=O((kz,Ny)=>{"use strict";Ny.exports=function A(e){var t=arguments.length;if(typeof e=="fun...
L10: `).join(`
...
L12: `)}function x1(A){A?process.env.DEBUG=A:delete process.env.DEBUG}function J1(){return process.env.DEBUG}function K1(A){A.inspectOpts={};let e=Object.keys(it.inspectOpts);for(let t=...
L13: `).map(e=>e.trim()
```

### 11. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/devcontainer/dist/spec-node/devcontainers-cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@scarn/cli@0.8.2/dist/devcontainer/dist/spec-node/devcontainers-cli.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L134: `}function Tg(A,e){return`\r
L135: `.indexOf(A.charAt(e))!==-1}var Og;(function(A){A.DEFAULT={allowTrailingComma:!1}})(Og||(Og={}));function Qw(A,e=[],t=Og.DEFAULT){let i=null,r=[],n=[];function o(g){Array.isArray(r...
L136: `,n=Buffer.byteLength(r),o=Math.floor(Math.log(n)/Math.log(10))+1;return n+o>=Math.pow(10,o)&&(o+=1),o+n+r}static parse(e,t,i=!1){return new Wm(WK(VK(e),t),i)}},WK=(A,e)=>e?Object....
...
L145: `)+`\r
L146: `}function my(A,e,t){return e=e.filter(i=>i.length).sort((i,r)=>r.length-i.length),e.length?{event:i=>{"text"in i?A.event({...i,text:cy(i.text,t,e)}):i.type==="progress"&&i.stepDet...
L147: `)),s.write(Ue(D.toString()))),g&&l&&s.write(`Exit code ${l}`),g&&h&&s.write(`Process signal ${h}`),d?Q({message:`Command failed: ${t} ${(i||[]).join(" ")}`,stdout:p,stderr
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 14. 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.

### 15. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 16. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** bin/postinstall.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@scarn/cli@0.8.2/bin/postinstall.js%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 = 1
```

### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/devcontainer/dist/spec-node/devcontainers-cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@scarn/cli@0.8.2/dist/devcontainer/dist/spec-node/devcontainers-cli.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 = @scarn/cli@0.0.0
matchedPath = dist/devcontainer/dist/spec-node/devcontainers-cli.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHNjYXJuL2NsaQ:0.0.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 18. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** bin/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@scarn/cli@0.8.2/bin/postinstall.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 = @scarn/cli@0.0.0
matchedPath = bin/postinstall.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHNjYXJuL2NsaQ:0.0.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 19. High: Known Malware Source Fingerprint Signature
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/devcontainer/dist/spec-node/devcontainers-cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@scarn/cli@0.8.2/dist/devcontainer/dist/spec-node/devcontainers-cli.js>)

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 = 037a0ba178324903
signatureType = suspicious_hashes
sourceLabel = final_verdict:malicious
matchedPackage = @scarn/cli@0.0.0
matchedPath = dist/devcontainer/dist/spec-node/devcontainers-cli.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHNjYXJuL2NsaQ:0.0.0
similarity = 1.000
shingleOverlap = 4
summary = package final verdict is malicious
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 2
- **Optional dependencies:** 5
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 7

### Published dependency entries
- pino ^9.14.0 (Dependency)
- pino-pretty ^13.1.2 (Dependency)
- @scarn/cli-darwin-arm64 0.8.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @scarn/cli-darwin-x64 0.8.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @scarn/cli-linux-arm64 0.8.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @scarn/cli-linux-x64 0.8.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @scarn/cli-win32-x64 0.8.2 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @scarn/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.8.2
- **Version published:** 2026-11-01T21:27:24.996Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-10-29T15:29:41.297Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T04:14:32.341Z
- **Known versions:** 5
- **Latest version:** 0.8.3
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Scarn runs AI agents over your backlog, on your machines. This CLI links your repo, designs pipelines with an agent, and runs the workers that execute them.
- **Maintainers:** civy
- **Artifact files:** 6
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,729,188 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@scarn/cli/v/0.8.2>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/scarn-io/scarn>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/scarn-io/scarn#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/scarn-io/scarn/issues>)
