--- canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@tonik/quickshot" markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@tonik/quickshot/v/0.9.0.md" package: "@tonik/quickshot" report_status: "published" title: "@tonik/quickshot@0.9.0 npm security report" verdict: "malicious" version: "0.9.0" --- # @tonik/quickshot@0.9.0 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** — The registry operator receives a GitHub credential that may grant access to the user's repositories. - **Verdict:** Malicious - **Product-default install policy:** Block - **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious - **Public report status:** Published - **Threat category:** Credential Exfiltration - **Selected version:** 0.9.0 - **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: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy. The CLI automatically forwards discovered GitHub credentials to its vendor-operated registry during registry requests. This is credential exfiltration under the package firewall rules, even though the request is initiated by a user-run CLI command. ## Latest scan - **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1 - **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious - **Recorded analysis confidence:** 97.0% - **Started:** 2026-11-01T22:16:59.528Z - **Finished:** 2026-11-01T22:17:47.407Z - **Download time:** 1266 ms - **Static scan time:** 1416 ms - **AI review time:** 45197 ms - **Total time:** 47879 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 CLI sends a locally discovered GitHub credential to the package vendor's registry. - **Trigger:** A user runs a command such as \`list\` that fetches the default registry manifest, while a GitHub token is available. - **Impact:** The registry operator receives a GitHub credential that may grant access to the user's repositories. - **Evidence paths:** dist/index.js - **Review source:** ai\_review - **Reviewed:** 2026-11-01T22:17:47.407Z ### AI review details - **Review stage:** source\_first\_review - **Mechanism:** The CLI resolves a token from GH\_TOKEN, GITHUB\_TOKEN, its auth store, or \`gh auth token\`, then sends it in an Authorization Bearer header to the default registry. - **Attack narrative:** When a registry command fetches the default registry, the CLI silently looks for a GitHub token in environment variables, its saved auth store, or the GitHub CLI, then sends that token as a Bearer credential to tonik-quickshot-registry.vercel.app. This exposes a credential for GitHub to the package vendor without explicit consent. - **Rationale:** The CLI automatically forwards discovered GitHub credentials to its vendor-operated registry during registry requests. This is credential exfiltration under the package firewall rules, even though the request is initiated by a user-run CLI command. - **Files touched:** dist/index.js - **Network endpoints:** https://tonik-quickshot-registry.vercel.app ### Review decision - **Verdict:** Malicious - **Confidence:** 97.0% - **Recommended action:** publish\_block - **Intent class:** Malware - **False-positive risk:** Low - **Evidence for block:** The token resolver retrieves GH\_TOKEN or GITHUB\_TOKEN from the environment., The default registry client is configured to call resolveGithubToken for authentication., Registry requests attach the resolved token as a Bearer authorization header., The list command fetches a registry manifest, triggering this credential flow when a GitHub token is available., The default registry is hosted at tonik-quickshot-registry.vercel.app. - **Evidence against:** The package is presented as a CLI for managing Tonik Quickshot features., The credential is sent during registry requests initiated by CLI commands, rather than an install hook. ## Affected versions and remediation This report applies to @tonik/quickshot@0.9.0. - Avoid installing @tonik/quickshot@0.9.0. 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. Low: Scripts Present - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 100.0% Package declares npm scripts. ### 2. Medium: Network - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% Package source references network APIs. ### 3. Medium: Environment Vars - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% Package source references environment variables. ### 4. Low: Filesystem - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 70.0% Package source references filesystem APIs. ### 5. Critical: Credential Exfiltration - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 90.0% - **Path:** dist/index.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Source appears to send environment or credential material to an external endpoint. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L77: init_esm_shims(); L78: var debug = typeof process === "object" && process.env && process.env.NODE_DEBUG && /\bsemver\b/i.test(process.env.NODE_DEBUG) ? (...args) => console.error("SEMVER", ...args) : () ... L79: }; ... L2670: init_esm_shims(); L2671: import { execFileSync } from "child_process"; L2672: function getGitWorktreeState(cwd) { L2673: try { L2674: const stdout = runGitCommand(cwd, ["status", "--porcelain"]); L2675: return stdout === "" ? "clean" : "dirty"; ... L2767: var DEFAULT_REGISTRY_NAME = "tonik"; L2768: var DEFAULT_REGISTRY_URL = "https://tonik-quickshot-registry.vercel.app"; L2769: var DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR_PATH = ".quickshot"; ``` ### 6. High: Credential Redirect Persistence - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 94.0% - **Path:** dist/index.js - **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. dist/index.js: writeFile as writeFile3 writeFile await writeFile(processedTargetPath, processedSourceContent, "utf-8"); import { mkdir as mkdir2, rename, rm, writeFile as writeFile2 } from "fs/promises"; async function writeFileAtomic(path5, content) { await writeFile2(tempPath, content, "utf-8"); await writeFileAtomic(configPath, `${JSON.stringify(rest, null, 2)} await writeFileAtomic( ``` ### 7. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 90.0% - **Path:** dist/index.js - **Public source:** [View source]() 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.dev -> dist/index.js L77: init_esm_shims(); L78: var debug = typeof process === "object" && process.env && process.env.NODE_DEBUG && /\bsemver\b/i.test(process.env.NODE_DEBUG) ? (...args) => console.error("SEMVER", ...args) : () ... L79: }; ... L2670: init_esm_shims(); L2671: import { execFileSync } from "child_process"; L2672: function getGitWorktreeState(cwd) { L2673: try { L2674: const stdout = runGitCommand(cwd, ["status", "--porcelain"]); L2675: return stdout === "" ? "clean" : "dirty"; ... L2767: var DEFAULT_REGISTRY_NAME = "tonik"; L2768: var DEFAULT_REGISTRY_URL = "https://tonik-quickshot-registry.vercel.app"; L2769: var DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR_PATH = ".quickshot"; ``` ### 8. High: Trigger Reachable Credential Exfiltration - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 94.0% - **Path:** dist/index.js - **Public source:** [View source]() A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches credential exfiltration behavior. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript Trigger-reachable credential exfiltration chain: scripts.dev -> dist/index.js L77: init_esm_shims(); L78: var debug = typeof process === "object" && process.env && process.env.NODE_DEBUG && /\bsemver\b/i.test(process.env.NODE_DEBUG) ? (...args) => console.error("SEMVER", ...args) : () ... L79: }; ... L2670: init_esm_shims(); L2671: import { execFileSync } from "child_process"; L2672: function getGitWorktreeState(cwd) { L2673: try { L2674: const stdout = runGitCommand(cwd, ["status", "--porcelain"]); L2675: return stdout === "" ? "clean" : "dirty"; ... L2767: var DEFAULT_REGISTRY_NAME = "tonik"; L2768: var DEFAULT_REGISTRY_URL = "https://tonik-quickshot-registry.vercel.app"; L2769: var DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR_PATH = ".quickshot"; ``` ### 9. Low: High Entropy Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 55.0% Package source contains high-entropy string patterns. ### 10. Low: Url Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 65.0% Package source contains URL literals. ### 11. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review - **Category:** Artifact Inventory - **Confidence:** 85.0% Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean. ### 12. High: Ai Review Evidence - **Category:** Ai Review - **Confidence:** 97.0% - **Path:** dist/index.js - **Public source:** [View source]() The token resolver retrieves GH\_TOKEN or GITHUB\_TOKEN from the environment. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript async function resolveGithubToken(deps = {}) { const env = deps.env ?? process.env; const envToken = env.GH_TOKEN?.trim() || env.GITHUB_TOKEN?.trim(); if (envToken) { return envToken; } const authStore = deps.authStore ?? createAuthStore(); con ``` ## Dependencies and install lifecycle - **Lifecycle scripts present:** No - **Dependencies:** 10 - **Optional dependencies:** 0 - **Peer dependencies:** 0 - **Development dependencies:** 17 - **Published dependency-graph edges:** 10 ### Published dependency entries - @clack/prompts ^1.1.0 (Dependency) - chalk ^5.4.1 (Dependency) - fast-glob ^3.3.3 (Dependency) - handlebars ^4.7.8 (Dependency) - js-yaml ^4.1.1 (Dependency) - jscodeshift ^17.3.0 (Dependency) - shell-quote ^1.8.3 (Dependency) - tar ^7.5.2 (Dependency) - yargs ^18.0.0 (Dependency) - zod ^4.1.12 (Dependency) ## Package metadata - **Package:** @tonik/quickshot - **Ecosystem:** npm - **Version:** 0.9.0 - **License:** MIT - **Version published:** 2026-10-15T09:05:24.826Z - **Package first seen:** 2026-07-02T11:33:56.405Z - **Package last seen:** 2026-11-01T22:18:19.337Z - **Known versions:** 11 - **Latest version:** 0.10.0 - **Appeal under review:** No - **Description:** CLI for managing Tonik Quickshot optional features - **Keywords:** quickshot, tonik, cli, generator, template - **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18.0.0, pnpm: \>=8.0.0 - **Artifact files:** 3 - **Artifact unpacked size:** 484,373 bytes - **Artifact signatures:** 2 - **Attestations:** No ## References - [HTML security report]() - [Repository]() - [Homepage]() - [Issues]()