--- canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sdelsad/podcast-tts-server/v/1.10.0" markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sdelsad/podcast-tts-server/v/1.10.0.md" package: "@sdelsad/podcast-tts-server" report_status: "published" title: "@sdelsad/podcast-tts-server@1.10.0 npm security report" verdict: "malicious" version: "1.10.0" --- # @sdelsad/podcast-tts-server@1.10.0 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 **Blocked & quarantined** — A compromised or changed toolkit release can execute arbitrary code in the server process, which has cloud storage and optional email credentials. - **Verdict:** Malicious - **Product-default install policy:** Block - **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious - **Public report status:** Published - **Threat category:** Remote Code Execution - **Selected version:** 1.10.0 - **Selected version is latest:** Yes - **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: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy. The server downloads Python programs from a separate npm package selected as latest, then executes them. The scheduled finalization endpoint can activate this chain. ## Latest scan - **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1 - **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious - **Recorded analysis confidence:** 94.0% - **Started:** 2026-09-11T10:39:32.230Z - **Finished:** 2026-09-11T10:40:19.409Z - **Download time:** 756 ms - **Static scan time:** 4 ms - **AI review time:** 46418 ms - **Total time:** 47179 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 server downloads Python programs from a separate npm package selected as latest, then executes them. The scheduled finalization endpoint can activate this chain. - **Trigger:** A caller invokes finalize\_episode, or sends a valid request to /finalize?key=SECRET\_PATH. - **Impact:** A compromised or changed toolkit release can execute arbitrary code in the server process, which has cloud storage and optional email credentials. - **Evidence paths:** server.py - **Review source:** ai\_review - **Reviewed:** 2026-09-11T10:40:19.409Z ### AI review details - **Review stage:** source\_first\_review - **Mechanism:** Runtime download and execution of unpinned remote Python code. - **Attack narrative:** When finalization runs, the server resolves @sdelsad/commodity-desk-toolkit at latest, downloads its Python files into a temporary directory, and launches them with python3. The feature is exposed as an MCP tool and through a secret-gated HTTP route that hard-codes the latest episode package. A future malicious registry release or supply-chain compromise therefore gains code execution in the deployed server context. - **Rationale:** This is an unpinned remote-code-execution supply-chain path, not merely content retrieval. No npm install hook is present, but runtime execution of downloaded latest-version Python is concrete critical attack behavior. - **Files touched:** server.py, temporary finalize directory, build\_page.py, build\_email.py - **Network endpoints:** https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm, https://registry.npmjs.org/ ### Review decision - **Verdict:** Malicious - **Confidence:** 94.0% - **Recommended action:** publish\_block - **Intent class:** Malware - **False-positive risk:** Low - **Evidence for block:** The finalize feature resolves a separate npm package at latest version and downloads Python files into a temporary directory., It executes the downloaded build\_page.py and build\_email.py with Python, allowing a later registry release to run code on the server., A secret-gated HTTP endpoint automatically invokes finalization against the latest release. - **Evidence against:** package.json contains no npm lifecycle scripts., The ffmpeg command uses a fixed argument list rather than shell interpolation. ## Affected versions and remediation This report applies to @sdelsad/podcast-tts-server@1.10.0. - Avoid installing @sdelsad/podcast-tts-server@1.10.0. 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. Medium: Ships Build Helper - **Category:** Artifact Inventory - **Confidence:** 70.0% - **Path:** server.py - **Public source:** [View source]() Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```python path = server.py kind = build_helper sizeBytes = 45827 magicHex = [redacted] ``` ### 2. High: Ai Review Evidence - **Category:** Ai Review - **Confidence:** 94.0% - **Path:** server.py - **Public source:** [View source]() It executes the downloaded build\_page.py and build\_email.py with Python, allowing a later registry release to run code on the server. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```text cmd = ["python3", "build_page.py", "--notes", notes, "--number", str(n), "--title", title, "--dek", dek, "--audio-url", audio_url, "--duration", str(duration), "--date", date, "--out", f"{ep}.html", "--charts-prefix", f"{ep}_chart"] r = subprocess.run(cmd, cwd=work, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=300) ``` ## Dependencies and install lifecycle - **Lifecycle scripts present:** No - **Dependencies:** 0 - **Optional dependencies:** 0 - **Peer dependencies:** 0 - **Development dependencies:** 0 - **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0 ## Package metadata - **Package:** @sdelsad/podcast-tts-server - **Ecosystem:** npm - **Version:** 1.10.0 - **License:** MIT - **Version published:** 2026-09-11T10:38:51.086Z - **Package first seen:** 2026-08-10T22:32:21.196Z - **Package last seen:** 2026-09-11T10:40:19.409Z - **Known versions:** 6 - **Latest version:** 1.10.0 - **Appeal under review:** No - **Description:** MCP server for Soft Commodity Trading: Gemini TTS, server-side release publishing from npm, and e-mail delivery — the caller never handles bytes - **Artifact files:** 5 - **Artifact unpacked size:** 50,630 bytes - **Artifact signatures:** 2 - **Attestations:** No ## References - [HTML security report]()