---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@toothfairyai/tfcode/v/2.4.3"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@toothfairyai/tfcode/v/2.4.3.md"
package: "@toothfairyai/tfcode"
report_status: "published"
title: "@toothfairyai/tfcode@2.4.3 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "2.4.3"
---

# @toothfairyai/tfcode@2.4.3 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 13 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Install Hook Abuse
- **Selected version:** 2.4.3
- **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.

The lifecycle hook performs unverified remote payload delivery and silently mutates the user's Python environment. The source does not establish direct theft or persistence, but the install-time supply-chain exposure is a real unresolved risk.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-10T01:34:45.810Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-10T01:35:36.694Z
- **Download time:** 1011 ms
- **Static scan time:** 73 ms
- **AI review time:** 49799 ms
- **Total time:** 50884 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:** Installing the package runs a downloader that selects a mutable latest remote release and writes its binary into the package. The same hook also installs Python packages into the user's account.

- **Trigger:** npm installation with lifecycle scripts enabled

- **Impact:** A compromised release host or Python package supply chain can place unreviewed code on the system during installation.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, postinstall.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-10T01:35:36.694Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** postinstall remote binary delivery and user-level pip installation

- **Rationale:** The lifecycle hook performs unverified remote payload delivery and silently mutates the user's Python environment. The source does not establish direct theft or persistence, but the install-time supply-chain exposure is a real unresolved risk.

- **Files touched:** bin/tfcode, bin/app

- **Network endpoints:** gitea.toothfairyai.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** The package automatically runs postinstall., Postinstall asks a remote release API for the latest version, then downloads an executable archive without a checksum or signature check., Postinstall invokes pip with --user and --break-system-packages, changing the installing user's Python environment.

- **Evidence against:** No source code reads or transmits credentials or arbitrary environment variables., The CLI wrapper only selects and starts a platform binary; no hidden command construction was found., The Python sources use explicit ToothFairyAI service endpoints for credential validation and workspace synchronization.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @toothfairyai/tfcode@2.4.3.

- Review the evidence and your use of @toothfairyai/tfcode@2.4.3 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/@toothfairyai/tfcode@2.4.3/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node ./postinstall.mjs
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@toothfairyai/tfcode@2.4.3/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node ./postinstall.mjs
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 8. Low: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

### 9. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** python/tf\_sync/config.py
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@toothfairyai/tfcode@2.4.3/python/tf_sync/config.py>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```python
path = python/tf_sync/config.py
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 7012
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 10. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 95.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

### 11. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** bin/tfcode.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@toothfairyai/tfcode@2.4.3/bin/tfcode.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 = @toothfairyai/tfcode@2.2.6
matchedPath = bin/tfcode.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHRvb3RoZmFpcnlhaS90ZmNvZGU:2.2.6
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 12. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** postinstall.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@toothfairyai/tfcode@2.4.3/postinstall.mjs>)

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 = @toothfairyai/tfcode@2.2.6
matchedPath = postinstall.mjs
matchedIdentity = npm:QHRvb3RoZmFpcnlhaS90ZmNvZGU:2.2.6
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 13. High: Known Malware Source Fingerprint Signature
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** bin/tfcode.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@toothfairyai/tfcode@2.4.3/bin/tfcode.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 = 4a53b45520011c93
signatureType = suspicious_hashes
sourceLabel = final_verdict:malicious
matchedPackage = @toothfairyai/tfcode@2.2.6
matchedPath = bin/tfcode.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHRvb3RoZmFpcnlhaS90ZmNvZGU:2.2.6
similarity = 1.000
shingleOverlap = 2
summary = package final verdict is malicious
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 12
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 12

### Published dependency entries
- @toothfairyai/tfcode-darwin-arm64 2.4.3 (OptionalDependency)
- @toothfairyai/tfcode-darwin-x64 2.4.3 (OptionalDependency)
- @toothfairyai/tfcode-darwin-x64-baseline 2.4.3 (OptionalDependency)
- @toothfairyai/tfcode-linux-arm64 2.4.3 (OptionalDependency)
- @toothfairyai/tfcode-linux-arm64-musl 2.4.3 (OptionalDependency)
- @toothfairyai/tfcode-linux-x64 2.4.3 (OptionalDependency)
- @toothfairyai/tfcode-linux-x64-baseline 2.4.3 (OptionalDependency)
- @toothfairyai/tfcode-linux-x64-baseline-musl 2.4.3 (OptionalDependency)
- @toothfairyai/tfcode-linux-x64-musl 2.4.3 (OptionalDependency)
- @toothfairyai/tfcode-windows-arm64 2.4.3 (OptionalDependency)
- @toothfairyai/tfcode-windows-x64 2.4.3 (OptionalDependency)
- @toothfairyai/tfcode-windows-x64-baseline 2.4.3 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @toothfairyai/tfcode
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.4.3
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-10T01:13:43.155Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T10:45:45.743Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-18T03:21:46.295Z
- **Known versions:** 43
- **Latest version:** 2.8.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** \*\*ToothFairyAI's AI coding agent\*\* — a command-line interface that brings AI-powered coding assistance to your terminal with deep ToothFairyAI workspace integration.
- **Maintainers:** toothfairyai
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 10
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 40,461 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@toothfairyai/tfcode/v/2.4.3>)
- [Repository](<https://gitea.toothfairyai.com/ToothFairyAI/tf_code>)
- [Homepage](<https://toothfairyai.com/developers/tfcode>)
