--- canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sciagent/cli/v/1.0.62" markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sciagent/cli/v/1.0.62.md" package: "@sciagent/cli" report_status: "published" title: "@sciagent/cli@1.0.62 npm security report" verdict: "suspicious" version: "1.0.62" --- # @sciagent/cli@1.0.62 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 **Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 13 finding(s) warrant review before installing. - **Verdict:** Suspicious - **Product-default install policy:** Warn - **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list - **Public report status:** Published - **Threat category:** Staged Payload Carrier - **Selected version:** 1.0.62 - **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. The package has an unconsented postinstall payload-provisioning chain with weak artifact verification and global dependency mutation. Source inspection does not establish that the retrieved payload is malicious or that a foreign AI-agent control surface is hijacked, so blocking is not justified. ## Latest scan - **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1 - **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious - **Recorded analysis confidence:** 90.0% - **Started:** 2026-07-14T08:07:54.609Z - **Finished:** 2026-07-14T08:09:43.893Z - **Download time:** 507 ms - **Static scan time:** 105 ms - **AI review time:** 108671 ms - **Total time:** 109284 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:** The postinstall hook silently provisions executable SciAgent/CodeBuddy payloads and a global npm dependency. Remote binaries are placed in the package-owned SciAgent directory without integrity verification; the CLI launcher executes the SciAgent binary when invoked. - **Trigger:** \`npm install\` runs postinstall; later the user runs \`sciagent\`. - **Impact:** A compromised configured release, mirror, redirect, or fetched package can supply executable code that persists in the user profile and runs with the installing user's privileges. - **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.js, bin/sciagent.js - **Review source:** ai\_review - **Reviewed:** 2026-07-14T08:09:43.893Z ### AI review details - **Review stage:** source\_first\_review - **Mechanism:** install-time remote binary acquisition plus global npm installation - **Rationale:** The package has an unconsented postinstall payload-provisioning chain with weak artifact verification and global dependency mutation. Source inspection does not establish that the retrieved payload is malicious or that a foreign AI-agent control surface is hijacked, so blocking is not justified. - **Files touched:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.js, bin/sciagent.js, ~/.sciagent/bin/sciagent, ~/.sciagent/bin/codebuddy-headless, %LOCALAPPDATA%\\sciagent\\bin\\sciagent, %LOCALAPPDATA%\\sciagent\\bin\\codebuddy-headless - **Network endpoints:** https://u250924-adc6-f977430f.westb.seetacloud.com:8443, https://api.github.com/repos/poisondrinker/research-agent/releases, https://mirrors.cloud.tencent.com/pypi/pypi/codebuddy-agent-sdk/json, https://mirrors.aliyun.com/pypi/pypi/codebuddy-agent-sdk/json, https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/pypi/pypi/codebuddy-agent-sdk/json, https://pypi.org/pypi/codebuddy-agent-sdk/json ### Review decision - **Verdict:** Suspicious - **Confidence:** 90.0% - **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn - **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability - **False-positive risk:** Low - **Evidence for warning:** \`package.json\` invokes \`scripts/postinstall.js\` automatically., \`scripts/postinstall.js\` downloads native CLI and CodeBuddy binaries during postinstall., Downloads are written executable under \`~/.sciagent/bin\` or \`%LOCALAPPDATA%\\sciagent\\bin\`., Remote artifacts are accepted by size only; no hash or signature check is present., Postinstall runs \`npm install -g @tencent-ai/codebuddy-code\` as a fallback., \`bin/sciagent.js\` later spawns the downloaded local binary. - **Evidence against:** No credential, environment-value, SSH, or browser-data harvesting found., No outbound upload or exfiltration logic found., No destructive file operations beyond temporary-download cleanup found., No writes to Claude, Cursor, Copilot, MCP, or other agent control-surface configuration found., The launcher executes a SciAgent path only after an explicit \`sciagent\` command. ## Affected versions and remediation This report applies to @sciagent/cli@1.0.62. - Review the evidence and your use of @sciagent/cli@1.0.62 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]() Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```json scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.js ``` ### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 75.0% - **Path:** package.json - **Public source:** [View source]() Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```json scripts.postinstall = node scripts/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:** bin/sciagent.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references child process execution. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L7: L8: const { spawn } = require('child_process'); L9: const path = require('path'); ``` ### 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: Runtime Package Install - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 86.0% - **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L382: try { L383: execSync('npm install -g @tencent-ai/codebuddy-code', { L384: stdio: 'inherit', ``` ### 10. Low: High Entropy Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 55.0% Package source contains high-entropy string patterns. ### 11. Low: Url Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 65.0% Package source contains URL literals. ### 12. 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. ### 13. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 93.0% - **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js - **Public source:** [View source]() This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta matchedPackage = @sciagent/cli@1.0.58 matchedIdentity = npm:QHNjaWFnZW50L2NsaQ:1.0.58 similarity = 0.667 summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file ``` ## Dependencies and install lifecycle - **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes - **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall - **Dependencies:** 0 - **Optional dependencies:** 6 - **Peer dependencies:** 0 - **Development dependencies:** 0 - **Published dependency-graph edges:** 6 ### Published dependency entries - @sciagent/cli-darwin-arm64 1.0.39 (OptionalDependency) - @sciagent/cli-darwin-x64 1.0.39 (OptionalDependency) - @sciagent/cli-linux-arm64 1.0.39 (OptionalDependency) - @sciagent/cli-linux-x64 1.0.62 (OptionalDependency) - @sciagent/cli-win32-arm64 1.0.39 (OptionalDependency) - @sciagent/cli-win32-x64 1.0.62 (OptionalDependency) ## Package metadata - **Package:** @sciagent/cli - **Ecosystem:** npm - **Version:** 1.0.62 - **License:** MIT - **Version published:** 2026-07-14T07:20:32.269Z - **Package first seen:** 2026-07-06T02:40:03.049Z - **Package last seen:** 2026-09-14T08:25:34.618Z - **Known versions:** 68 - **Latest version:** 1.3.73 - **Appeal under review:** No - **Description:** SciAgent CLI - AI Research Assistant - **Author:** SciAgent Team - **Maintainers:** liuteng88 - **Keywords:** ai, research, agent, cli, codebuddy - **Runtime engines:** node: \>=16 - **Supported OS:** linux, darwin, win32 - **Supported CPU:** x64, arm64 - **Artifact files:** 4 - **Artifact unpacked size:** 36,293 bytes - **Artifact signatures:** 1 - **Attestations:** No ## References - [HTML security report]() - [Repository]()