--- canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@tiens.nguyen/gu-cli/v/1.0.775" markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@tiens.nguyen/gu-cli/v/1.0.775.md" package: "@tiens.nguyen/gu-cli" report_status: "published" title: "@tiens.nguyen/gu-cli@1.0.775 npm security report" verdict: "suspicious" version: "1.0.775" --- # @tiens.nguyen/gu-cli@1.0.775 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 20 finding(s) warrant review before installing. - **Verdict:** Suspicious - **Product-default install policy:** Warn - **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list - **Public report status:** Published - **Threat category:** Unknown - **Selected version:** 1.0.775 - **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. Inspected source does not establish credential theft, unconsented agent configuration mutation, or another concrete attack. Because static analysis reports parse errors in several executable modules, the remaining uncertainty warrants a warning rather than a clean verdict. ## Latest scan - **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1 - **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious - **Recorded analysis confidence:** 62.0% - **Started:** 2026-10-09T05:23:19.232Z - **Finished:** 2026-10-09T05:24:20.250Z - **Download time:** 1526 ms - **Static scan time:** 3666 ms - **AI review time:** 55825 ms - **Total time:** 61018 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:** No concrete attack was established from the inspected source. Incomplete static analysis leaves behavior in several executable modules unresolved. - **Trigger:** No malicious trigger was confirmed; the postinstall hook invokes the PATH helper, while MCP and login behavior run through CLI use. - **Impact:** The unresolved analysis prevents confirming that all executable behavior is benign; no specific harmful effect was verified. - **Review source:** ai\_review - **Reviewed:** 2026-10-09T05:24:20.250Z ### AI review details - **Review stage:** source\_first\_review - **Mechanism:** The examined MCP path requires project approval, and the examined login path sends a worker key to the selected API base. Parse errors in other modules limit confidence in a package-wide assessment. - **Rationale:** Inspected source does not establish credential theft, unconsented agent configuration mutation, or another concrete attack. Because static analysis reports parse errors in several executable modules, the remaining uncertainty warrants a warning rather than a clean verdict. ### Review decision - **Verdict:** Suspicious - **Confidence:** 62.0% - **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn - **Intent class:** Unknown - **False-positive risk:** Medium - **Evidence for warning:** \`mcp-config.mjs\` reads \`.mcp.json\`; project servers require saved per-project approval before they are runnable., \`gu-cli.mjs\` calls the MCP configuration when assembling agent job settings., \`gu-repl.mjs\` starts device login only when credentials are missing and the terminal is interactive., \`device-login.mjs\` sends the worker key to the selected API base for a settings check., \`package.json\` runs a PATH helper at postinstall; its main function skips Windows and CI., Static analysis reports parse errors in several executable modules, leaving some behavior unresolved. - **Evidence against:** The inspected MCP logic gates project servers on saved approval; no unconsented project server execution was established., The inspected credential flow sends the key to the configured worker API; no unrelated recipient or hidden forwarding was established. ## Affected versions and remediation This report applies to @tiens.nguyen/gu-cli@1.0.775. - Review the evidence and your use of @tiens.nguyen/gu-cli@1.0.775 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 install-path.mjs ``` ### 2. Low: Scripts Present - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 100.0% Package declares npm scripts. ### 3. Medium: Secret Pattern - **Category:** Secrets - **Confidence:** 75.0% - **Path:** proxy-selftest.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() Package contains a possible secret pattern. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript patternName = generic_password severity = medium line = 195 ``` ### 4. High: Child Process - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 85.0% - **Path:** mongo-native.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references child process execution. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L18: */ L19: import { spawn } from "node:child_process"; L20: import { existsSync } from "node:fs"; ``` ### 5. High: Shell - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 85.0% - **Path:** client-expert-api.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references shell execution. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L198: child = shell L199: ? spawn(line, { cwd: apiDir, stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "pipe"], shell: true }) L200: : spawn(cmd, args, { cwd: apiDir, stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "pipe"], shell: false }); ``` ### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% - **Path:** rag-selftest.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1 - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references dynamic require/import behavior. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```text L34: function haystackFile(n) { L35: const lines = [`// Service module ${n}: request handling for the platform"s internal API.`];\n for (let i = 1; i <= 40; i++) {\n lines.push(\n `// helper ${i}: validates t... L36: // embedder is down" when it is simply a different path.\n const raw = String(s.ragEmbedUrl || "").replace(//+$/, "");\n embedUrl = raw && !//v1$/i.test(raw) ? `${raw}/v1` : ... ``` ### 7. Medium: Network - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% Package source references network APIs. ### 8. Medium: Environment Vars - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% Package source references environment variables. ### 9. Low: Filesystem - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 70.0% Package source references filesystem APIs. ### 10. High: Same File Env Network Execution - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 85.0% - **Path:** gu-cli.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L2110: " Usage: gu-cli embed --model ~/mlx-models/Qwen3-Embedding-8B-4bit-DWQ [--port 8085] [--host 127.0.0.1]\n" + L2111: " (or set GONEXT_EMBED_MODEL). Then set the RAG embedding server URL to http://: in web Settings." L2112: ); ... L2119: const python = L2120: (process.env.GONEXT_PROBE_PYTHON ?? process.env.GONEXT_MLX_LM_PYTHON ?? "").trim() || L2121: "python3"; ... L2125: ); L2126: const child = spawn( L2127: python, ``` ### 11. High: Credential Redirect Persistence - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 94.0% - **Path:** gu-repl.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration. gu-repl.mjs: import { readFile, mkdir, writeFile, unlink, rename } from "node:fs/promises"; import { existsSync, statSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync, readdirSync, openSync, readSync, closeSync } from "node:fs"; import { createInterface } from "node:readline"; // A SELF-CONTAINED prompt: this runs before the REPL's readline (and its ask()) is // ONE readline for the whole first run: the mode question and the key prompt share it, // the REPL's own readline exists, so it owns the terminal here). const rl0 = (await import("node:readline")).createInterface({ // Exit AFTER the readline is closed, so the terminal is left in a usable state. ``` ### 12. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 84.0% - **Path:** gu-cli.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L18: import { mkdir, mkdtemp, readFile, rm, stat, unlink, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises"; L19: import { execFile as execFileCallback, spawn } from "node:child_process"; L20: import { createHash, randomUUID } from "node:crypto"; ... L75: L76: // Running worker version, read from the package's own package.json (single source of L77: // truth) so the startup banner shows exactly which build a box is running (task #105). ... L88: L89: const ENV_FILE = join(homedir(), ".gonext", "worker.env"); L90: const preloadedWorkerKey = String(process.env.GONEXT_WORKER_KEY ?? "").trim(); L91: const envFileLoad = dotenv.config({ path: ENV_FILE }); ... L145: Examples: L146: gu-cli set abc123 --api-base https://hwohu56e8d.execute-api.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com ``` ### 13. High: Cloud Metadata Access - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 84.0% - **Path:** coding-provider-setup.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() Source reaches cloud instance metadata or link-local credential endpoints. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L12: * a log means the box. An OpenAI-compatible provider is the opposite — the path is part of the L13: * address. https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 is OpenRouter's documented base, and dropping the /api L14: * from it 404s every call. So this keeps the path and mirrors the API's normalizeOpenAiV1Root ... L47: if (a === 169 && b === 254) return "link-local"; // includes 169.254.169.254 (IMDS) L48: if (a === 10) return "private"; L49: if (a === 172 && b >= 16 && b <= 31) return "private"; ``` ### 14. High: Copied Package Dependency Bridge - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 83.0% - **Path:** proxy-dispatcher.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() Package metadata claims a different repository identity while copied source loads a runtime dependency bridge. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript package = @tiens.nguyen/gu-cli; repositoryIdentity = gu; dependency = undici L41: try { L42: ({ ProxyAgent: ProxyAgentCtor } = await import("undici")); L43: } catch (err) { ``` ### 15. Low: High Entropy Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 55.0% Package source contains high-entropy string patterns. ### 16. Low: Url Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 65.0% Package source contains URL literals. ### 17. Medium: Ships Build Helper - **Category:** Artifact Inventory - **Confidence:** 70.0% - **Path:** gonext\_transcribe.py - **Public source:** [View source]() Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```python path = gonext_transcribe.py kind = build_helper sizeBytes = 4248 magicHex = [redacted] ``` ### 18. 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. ### 19. High: Semantic Analysis Limited - **Category:** Scanner Coverage - **Confidence:** 100.0% - **Path:** agent-stop.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1 - **Public source:** [View source]() 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 = 6 ``` ### 20. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 93.0% - **Path:** client-expert-api.mjs - **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 = @tiens.nguyen/gu-cli@1.0.692 matchedIdentity = npm:QHRpZW5zLm5ndXllbi9ndS1jbGk:1.0.692 similarity = 0.595 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:** 4 - **Optional dependencies:** 0 - **Peer dependencies:** 0 - **Development dependencies:** 0 - **Published dependency-graph edges:** 4 ### Published dependency entries - dotenv ^16.4.5 (Dependency) - express ^4.21.0 (Dependency) - openai ^4.77.0 (Dependency) - undici ^7.29.0 (Dependency) ## Package metadata - **Package:** @tiens.nguyen/gu-cli - **Ecosystem:** npm - **Version:** 1.0.775 - **License:** MIT - **Version published:** 2026-09-30T09:10:29.588Z - **Package first seen:** 2026-09-12T10:02:50.226Z - **Package last seen:** 2026-10-23T04:09:31.083Z - **Known versions:** 97 - **Latest version:** 1.0.871 - **Appeal under review:** No - **Description:** Gu CLI — the gu terminal plus the local worker that runs agent / OCR / PDF / embedding jobs on your Mac (Ollama / MLX / OpenAI-compatible). - **Maintainers:** tiens.nguyen - **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18 - **Artifact files:** 75 - **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,684,217 bytes - **Artifact signatures:** 2 - **Attestations:** No ## References - [HTML security report]() - [Repository]() - [Homepage]() - [Issues]()