---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@swirls/cli/v/0.1.108"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@swirls/cli/v/0.1.108.md"
package: "@swirls/cli"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "@swirls/cli@0.1.108 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.1.108"
---

# @swirls/cli@0.1.108 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 15 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Under Review
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.1.108
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

Static analysis flagged 15 finding(s) at 97.0% confidence. This version is warn-only unless an AI or security-team review confirms malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-09T00:40:41.836Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-09T00:40:42.379Z
- **Download time:** 518 ms
- **Static scan time:** 24 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 543 ms

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@swirls/cli@0.1.108/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@swirls/cli@0.1.108/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** scripts/install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@swirls/cli@0.1.108/scripts/install.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L13: 
L14: import { execSync } from 'node:child_process'
L15: import { chmodSync, copyFileSync, existsSync } from 'node:fs'
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** scripts/install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@swirls/cli@0.1.108/scripts/install.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L49: stdio: 'inherit',
L50: shell: true,
L51: })
```

### 6. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 7. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. Critical: Download Execute
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** scripts/install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@swirls/cli@0.1.108/scripts/install.js>)

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L13: 
L14: import { execSync } from 'node:child_process'
L15: import { chmodSync, copyFileSync, existsSync } from 'node:fs'
...
L18: 
L19: const INSTALL_URL = 'https://swirls.ai/install'
L20: 
...
L28: const INSTALLED_BINARY = join(
L29: process.env.HOME || process.env.USERPROFILE || '',
L30: '.local',
...
L36: 
L37: if (process.env.CI === 'true' || process.env.CI === '1') {
L38: process.exit(0)
```

### 9. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** scripts/install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@swirls/cli@0.1.108/scripts/install.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L13: 
L14: import { execSync } from 'node:child_process'
L15: import { chmodSync, copyFileSync, existsSync } from 'node:fs'
...
L18: 
L19: const INSTALL_URL = 'https://swirls.ai/install'
L20: 
...
L28: const INSTALLED_BINARY = join(
L29: process.env.HOME || process.env.USERPROFILE || '',
L30: '.local',
...
L36: 
L37: if (process.env.CI === 'true' || process.env.CI === '1') {
L38: process.exit(0)
```

### 10. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** scripts/install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@swirls/cli@0.1.108/scripts/install.js>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: scripts.postinstall -> scripts/install.js
L13: 
L14: import { execSync } from 'node:child_process'
L15: import { chmodSync, copyFileSync, existsSync } from 'node:fs'
...
L18: 
L19: const INSTALL_URL = 'https://swirls.ai/install'
L20: 
...
L28: const INSTALLED_BINARY = join(
L29: process.env.HOME || process.env.USERPROFILE || '',
L30: '.local',
...
L36: 
L37: if (process.env.CI === 'true' || process.env.CI === '1') {
L38: process.exit(0)
```

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 14. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** scripts/install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@swirls/cli@0.1.108/scripts/install.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 = @swirls/cli@0.1.106
matchedPath = scripts/install.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHN3aXJscy9jbGk:0.1.106
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 15. High: Known Malware Source Fingerprint Signature
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** scripts/install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@swirls/cli@0.1.108/scripts/install.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 = 87fc30553c66ec35
signatureType = suspicious_hashes
sourceLabel = final_verdict:malicious
matchedPackage = @swirls/cli@0.1.106
matchedPath = scripts/install.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHN3aXJscy9jbGk:0.1.106
similarity = 1.000
shingleOverlap = 1
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:** 25
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @swirls/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.1.108
- **Version published:** 2026-07-09T00:40:22.537Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T03:41:37.204Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-09T19:22:32.661Z
- **Known versions:** 16
- **Latest version:** 0.1.124
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Swirls command line application
- **Author:** Swirls
- **Maintainers:** eric-byteslice, cj-byteslice, dylanbyteslice
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22
- **Artifact files:** 5
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 3,967 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@swirls/cli/v/0.1.108>)