---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sciagent/cli/v/1.3.73"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sciagent/cli/v/1.3.73.md"
package: "@sciagent/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@sciagent/cli@1.3.73 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.3.73"
---

# @sciagent/cli@1.3.73 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — A remote server or globally installed dependency can supply code that executes with the installing user's privileges.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Install Hook Abuse
- **Selected version:** 1.3.73
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Installing the package automatically fetches opaque executable payloads and changes global user state. Running the CLI launches the downloaded SciAgent binary.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 96.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-01T02:09:41.406Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-01T02:10:35.437Z
- **Download time:** 515 ms
- **Static scan time:** 526 ms
- **AI review time:** 52990 ms
- **Total time:** 54031 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Installing the package automatically fetches opaque executable payloads and changes global user state. Running the CLI launches the downloaded SciAgent binary.

- **Trigger:** npm installation triggers postinstall; invoking sciagent launches the downloaded payload.

- **Impact:** A remote server or globally installed dependency can supply code that executes with the installing user's privileges.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-01T02:10:35.437Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Lifecycle download, global package installation, and execution of remote binaries.

- **Attack narrative:** The postinstall hook runs without a separate user command, downloads an executable to the user's SciAgent directory, and installs a separate global npm package. The downloaded payload is accepted based on size rather than a cryptographic integrity check. The command wrapper subsequently starts that downloaded binary and includes remote update logic, creating a supply-chain path from installation to execution outside the reviewed package.

- **Rationale:** This package uses an automatic lifecycle hook to install external code globally and stage opaque remote executables for later execution without integrity verification. That is concrete install-hook abuse, even though the visible JavaScript does not harvest credentials.

- **Files touched:** $HOME/.sciagent/bin/sciagent, $HOME/.sciagent/bin/codebuddy-headless, global npm installation of @tencent-ai/codebuddy-code

- **Network endpoints:** jihulab.com, px1-jcy.matpool.com:26597

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 96.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** The package runs a postinstall script automatically., Postinstall installs an unrelated global npm package without a version pin., Postinstall downloads large executable payloads into the user's SciAgent directory and marks them executable, with only a size check., The CLI later launches the downloaded binary and also supports background remote updates.

- **Evidence against:** No source code reads credential files or sends harvested environment data., The visible logic is a CLI bootstrapper rather than obfuscated data-stealing code.

## 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@1.3.73/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@1.3.73/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@1.3.73/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@1.3.73/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: // 脚本必须以 UTF-8 BOM 写入（PowerShell 5.1 无 BOM 按 ANSI/GBK 解码，
```

### 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:** bin/sciagent.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sciagent/cli@1.3.73/bin/sciagent.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
L121: if (process.platform === "win32") {
L122: // Windows: 使用 PowerShell
L123: // 注意：脚本必须以 UTF-8 BOM 写入——PowerShell 5.1 对无 BOM 的
...
L126: const logFile = path.join(installDir, "update-apply.log");
L127: const esc = (s) => String(s).replace(/"/g, \"""\");\r\n        const scriptContent = [\r\n          `$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"`,\r\n          `$log = "${esc(logFile)}"`,\r\n ...
L128: // 脚本必须以 UTF-8 BOM 写入（PowerShell 5.1 无 BOM 按 ANSI/GBK
```

### 10. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sciagent/cli@1.3.73/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:26597?token=b3xgnhe2Sk';
L43: 
...
L87: function getCodebuddyBinDir() {
L88: const platform = process.platform;
L89: if (platform === 'win32') {
```

### 11. High: Install Named Payload File
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sciagent/cli@1.3.73/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:26597?token=b3xgnhe2Sk';
L43: 
...
L87: function getCodebuddyBinDir() {
L88: const platform = process.platform;
L89: if (platform === 'win32') {
```

### 12. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sciagent/cli@1.3.73/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',
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 15. 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.

### 16. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** bin/sciagent.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sciagent/cli@1.3.73/bin/sciagent.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:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sciagent/cli@1.3.73/scripts/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 = @sciagent/cli@1.3.72
matchedPath = scripts/postinstall.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHNjaWFnZW50L2NsaQ:1.3.72
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 18. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** bin/sciagent.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sciagent/cli@1.3.73/bin/sciagent.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 = @sciagent/cli@1.3.72
matchedPath = bin/sciagent.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHNjaWFnZW50L2NsaQ:1.3.72
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:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sciagent/cli@1.3.73/scripts/postinstall.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 = 32653d96ab5ea419
signatureType = suspicious_hashes
sourceLabel = final_verdict:malicious
matchedPackage = @sciagent/cli@1.3.72
matchedPath = scripts/postinstall.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHNjaWFnZW50L2NsaQ:1.3.72
similarity = 1.000
shingleOverlap = 3
summary = package final verdict is malicious
```

## 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:** 1.3.73
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-01T02:05:49.449Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-06T02:40:03.049Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-01T02:10:35.437Z
- **Known versions:** 67
- **Latest version:** 1.3.73
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** SciAgent CLI - AI Research Assistant
- **Author:** SciAgent Team
- **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:** 94,565 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sciagent/cli/v/1.3.73>)
- [Repository](<https://gitee.com/garva/research-agent.git>)