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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sciagent/cli/v/1.3.43"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sciagent/cli/v/1.3.43.md"
package: "@sciagent/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@sciagent/cli@1.3.43 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.3.43"
---

# @sciagent/cli@1.3.43 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 14 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:** 1.3.43
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Installation fetches large opaque executables and an SDK from remote mirrors, with only size and limited Windows PE checks. The installed CLI executes the fetched SciAgent binary and supports background replacement updates.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-09T09:54:11.872Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-09T09:54:57.712Z
- **Download time:** 772 ms
- **Static scan time:** 556 ms
- **AI review time:** 44512 ms
- **Total time:** 45840 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Installation fetches large opaque executables and an SDK from remote mirrors, with only size and limited Windows PE checks. The installed CLI executes the fetched SciAgent binary and supports background replacement updates.

- **Trigger:** npm install (postinstall) and later sciagent CLI invocation

- **Impact:** A compromised download source can supply executable code that is persisted and run on the host.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.js, bin/sciagent.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-09T09:54:57.712Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** unverified remote binary staging, global dependency installation, and runtime execution

- **Rationale:** The automatic remote executable staging and global install are material lifecycle risk, yet source evidence does not show a concrete malicious objective. Downgrade to warn as an unverified staged payload carrier.

- **Files touched:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.js, bin/sciagent.js, ~/.sciagent/bin/sciagent, ~/.sciagent/bin/codebuddy-headless, ~/.sciagent/bin/.version, ~/.sciagent/bin/.pending-update

- **Network endpoints:** https://jihulab.com/api/v4/projects/351778/packages/generic/sciagent, https://px1-jcy.matpool.com:26741, https://mirrors.cloud.tencent.com/pypi/pypi/codebuddy-agent-sdk/json, https://pypi.org/pypi/codebuddy-agent-sdk/json

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** package.json runs scripts/postinstall.js automatically., postinstall downloads opaque platform binaries to ~/.sciagent/bin without hash/signature verification., postinstall globally installs @tencent-ai/codebuddy-code and creates a local executable wrapper., Windows postinstall persistently appends npm's bin directory to the user PATH., bin/sciagent.js later executes the downloaded binary and auto-downloads updates.

- **Evidence against:** No source reads user credentials, harvests files, or exfiltrates data., Writes are scoped to SciAgent directories, temporary files, and Windows npm PATH; no AI-agent config paths were found., Network behavior is product-aligned binary/SDK acquisition, not a confirmed malicious payload chain.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sciagent/cli@1.3.43/package.json>)

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](<https://unpkg.com/@sciagent/cli@1.3.43/package.json>)

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](<https://unpkg.com/@sciagent/cli@1.3.43/bin/sciagent.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L19: 
L20: const { spawn, execSync } = require('child_process');
L21: const path = require('path');
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sciagent/cli@1.3.43/scripts/postinstall.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L685: if (process.platform === 'win32') {
L686: // Windows: 使用 PowerShell Copy-Item
L687: const tmpScript = path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'sciagent-replace.ps1');
```

### 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: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sciagent/cli@1.3.43/scripts/postinstall.js>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8: 
L9: const { execSync } = require('child_process');
L10: const path = require('path');
L11: const fs = require('fs');
L12: const https = require('https');
L13: const http = require('http');
...
L41: // 自建服务器配置（备用源）
L42: const SELF_HOSTED_URL = process.env.RELEASE_SERVER_URL || 'https://px1-jcy.matpool.com:26741?token=BdZ2oxzimV';
L43: 
...
L87: function getCodebuddyBinDir() {
L88: const platform = process.platform;
L89: if (platform === 'win32') {
```

### 10. High: Install Named Payload File
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sciagent/cli@1.3.43/scripts/postinstall.js>)

Install-named source file stages remote content through filesystem writes and execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8: 
L9: const { execSync } = require('child_process');
L10: const path = require('path');
L11: const fs = require('fs');
L12: const https = require('https');
L13: const http = require('http');
...
L41: // 自建服务器配置（备用源）
L42: const SELF_HOSTED_URL = process.env.RELEASE_SERVER_URL || 'https://px1-jcy.matpool.com:26741?token=BdZ2oxzimV';
L43: 
...
L87: function getCodebuddyBinDir() {
L88: const platform = process.platform;
L89: if (platform === 'win32') {
```

### 11. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sciagent/cli@1.3.43/scripts/postinstall.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L555: try {
L556: execSync('npm install -g @tencent-ai/codebuddy-code', {
L557: stdio: 'inherit',
```

### 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.

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @sciagent/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.3.43
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-06T14:16:45.799Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-06T02:40:03.049Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-12T03:31:13.684Z
- **Known versions:** 65
- **Latest version:** 1.3.64
- **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:** 88,736 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sciagent/cli/v/1.3.43>)
- [Repository](<https://gitee.com/garva/research-agent>)