---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@tiens.nguyen/gu-cli/v/1.0.802"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@tiens.nguyen/gu-cli/v/1.0.802.md"
package: "@tiens.nguyen/gu-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@tiens.nguyen/gu-cli@1.0.802 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "1.0.802"
---

# @tiens.nguyen/gu-cli@1.0.802 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 20 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 1.0.802
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Source inspection found a package-aligned worker API flow and a postinstall PATH helper, but no concrete credential theft, malicious payload execution, or unconsented agent-control modification. The scanner’s execution and network signals correspond to inspected CLI features and do not establish an attack.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-09T05:24:10.787Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-09T05:25:06.384Z
- **Download time:** 1032 ms
- **Static scan time:** 4279 ms
- **AI review time:** 50285 ms
- **Total time:** 55597 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 attack was identified in the inspected source. The postinstall hook runs a PATH setup helper, while credential and agent configuration behavior is tied to the CLI’s worker and configuration functions.

- **Trigger:** Installing the package runs its postinstall helper; other reviewed behavior is reached through CLI or REPL use.

- **Impact:** The inspected behavior supports the package’s CLI and worker features; no concrete malicious effect was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-09T05:25:06.384Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The worker API receives coding keys at the configured API base, which defaults to the package’s own service. The inspected configuration code reads agent settings and exposes configuration operations without showing an install-time agent-control write.

- **Rationale:** Source inspection found a package-aligned worker API flow and a postinstall PATH helper, but no concrete credential theft, malicious payload execution, or unconsented agent-control modification. The scanner’s execution and network signals correspond to inspected CLI features and do not establish an attack.

- **Network endpoints:** chat-api-v2.gucli.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** package.json maps the CLI entry points and runs install-path.mjs during postinstall., The REPL sends coding keys to its configured worker API; the default API is the package’s own service, and the request uses the worker key for authentication., The inspected hooks and MCP configuration code reads project and user configuration paths; it does not show an install-time write to an agent control surface., Inspected execution-related modules support package functions: MongoDB setup, worker CLI operation, provider setup, per-request proxying, graceful agent stopping, and local API startup., install-path.mjs gates its PATH setup on npm global-install context.

- **Evidence against:** Static hints flagged credential forwarding, lifecycle behavior, and process execution, but the inspected source did not establish credential theft or unconsented agent-control modification.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @tiens.nguyen/gu-cli@1.0.802.

- Review the evidence and your use of @tiens.nguyen/gu-cli@1.0.802 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](<https://unpkg.com/@tiens.nguyen/gu-cli@1.0.802/package.json>)

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](<https://unpkg.com/@tiens.nguyen/gu-cli@1.0.802/proxy-selftest.mjs>)

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](<https://unpkg.com/@tiens.nguyen/gu-cli@1.0.802/mongo-native.mjs>)

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:** mongo-native.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tiens.nguyen/gu-cli@1.0.802/mongo-native.mjs%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
L93: export const HOMEBREW_INSTALL_COMMAND =
L94: "/bin/bash -c \"$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.[redacted].sh)\"";
L95:
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** mongo-native.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tiens.nguyen/gu-cli@1.0.802/mongo-native.mjs%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
L46: export async function mongoAnswers(host = "127.0.0.1", port = 27017, timeoutMs = 3000) {
L47: const net = await import("node:net");
L48: return new Promise((resolve) => {
```

### 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:** mongo-native.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tiens.nguyen/gu-cli@1.0.802/mongo-native.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L161: if (!brew) return false;
L162: return (await run(brew, ["trust", "--help"], { env: { ...process.env, HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE: "1" } })) === 0;
L163: }
L164: 
L165: /** Homebrew's own one-line installer (https://brew.sh) — it asks for the password itself. */
L166: export const HOMEBREW_INSTALL_COMMAND =
L167: '/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.[redacted].sh)"';
L168:
```

### 11. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** gu-repl.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tiens.nguyen/gu-cli@1.0.802/gu-repl.mjs>)

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, mkdirSync } 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({
// Ctrl+C AND Ctrl+D MUST END THE RUN CLEANLY (task #333). readline sw
```

### 12. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** gu-cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tiens.nguyen/gu-cli@1.0.802/gu-cli.mjs>)

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";
...
L76: 
L77: // Running worker version, read from the package's own package.json (single source of
L78: // truth) so the startup banner shows exactly which build a box is running (task #105).
...
L89: 
L90: const ENV_FILE = join(homedir(), ".gonext", "worker.env");
L91: const preloadedWorkerKey = String(process.env.GONEXT_WORKER_KEY ?? "").trim();
L92: const envFileLoad = dotenv.config({ path: ENV_FILE });
...
L148: Examples:
L149: 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](<https://unpkg.com/@tiens.nguyen/gu-cli@1.0.802/coding-provider-setup.mjs>)

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](<https://unpkg.com/@tiens.nguyen/gu-cli@1.0.802/proxy-dispatcher.mjs>)

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](<https://unpkg.com/@tiens.nguyen/gu-cli@1.0.802/gonext_transcribe.py>)

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](<https://unpkg.com/@tiens.nguyen/gu-cli@1.0.802/agent-stop.mjs%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 = 9
```

### 20. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** client-expert-api.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tiens.nguyen/gu-cli@1.0.802/client-expert-api.mjs>)

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 = 0.378
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:** 1.0.802
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-05T03:08:20.502Z
- **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:** 83
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,983,672 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@tiens.nguyen/gu-cli/v/1.0.802>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/tiennsloit/gu>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/tiennsloit/gu#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/tiennsloit/gu/issues>)
