---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@volcengine/ark-cli/v/1.0.25"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@volcengine/ark-cli/v/1.0.25.md"
package: "@volcengine/ark-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@volcengine/ark-cli@1.0.25 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.25"
---

# @volcengine/ark-cli@1.0.25 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. Can mutate a broad local AI-agent control surface without an explicit user command.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Warn by default
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Soft block: AI-agent control surface
- **Selected version:** 1.0.25
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

LPM flags this version as an AI-agent control-surface risk. Installing the package downloads and executes an opaque native binary. The postinstall then automatically requests installation of skills into detected local AI agents.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-04T04:22:52.026Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-04T04:23:32.521Z
- **Download time:** 1034 ms
- **Static scan time:** 113 ms
- **AI review time:** 39347 ms
- **Total time:** 40495 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Installing the package downloads and executes an opaque native binary. The postinstall then automatically requests installation of skills into detected local AI agents.

- **Trigger:** npm postinstall during package installation

- **Impact:** Can mutate a broad local AI-agent control surface without an explicit user command.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-04T04:23:32.521Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Downloaded binary execution followed by automatic AI-agent skill installation

- **Attack narrative:** An automatic postinstall downloads a native executable from a manifest-selected URL, installs it into bin/, and executes it. The executable is then invoked non-interactively with +connect --refresh; the package source states that this detects agents and installs skills into them. This is an unconsented install-time mutation path for local AI-agent integrations, and the native payload is not available for source inspection in the package.

- **Rationale:** The package performs unconsented postinstall execution of a downloaded native payload and automatically installs skills into local AI agents. Hash checking constrains the selected download but does not make the opaque binary or broad control-surface mutation safe.

- **Files touched:** manifest.json, bin/, scripts/postinstall.js

- **Network endpoints:** https://lf3-static.bytednsdoc.com, https://github.com/volcengine/ark-cli/releases/download/v1.0.25/

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** The install lifecycle runs a downloader script automatically., The script downloads a platform binary, verifies its package-supplied hash, and makes it executable., After installation it automatically executes the downloaded binary with +connect --refresh, which is described as installing skills into detected local agents.

- **Evidence against:** The JavaScript installer contains no credential harvesting or direct exfiltration., Downloaded binaries are checked against SHA-256 values in the included manifest.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@volcengine/ark-cli@1.0.25/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@volcengine/ark-cli@1.0.25/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 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. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

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

### 9. High: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@volcengine/ark-cli@1.0.25/package.json>)

The install lifecycle runs a downloader script automatically.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"scripts": {
    "postinstall": "node scripts/postinstall.js"
  }
```

### 10. High: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@volcengine/ark-cli@1.0.25/scripts/postinstall.js>)

The script downloads a platform binary, verifies its package-supplied hash, and makes it executable.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
(async () => {
  fs.mkdirSync(binDir, { recursive: true });
  const tmp = `${binPath}.download`;

  let installedFrom;
  try {
    installedFrom = await downloadVerifiedBinary(binarySources(entry), tmp, entry.sha256);
  } catch (err) {
    fs.rmSync(tmp, { force: true });
    console.error(`@volcengine/ark-cli: download failed: ${err.message || err}`);
    process.exit(1);
  }

  fs.renameSync(tmp, binPath);
  if (platform !== "windows") {
    fs.chmodSync(binPath, 0o755);
  }
  console.log(
    `@volcengine/ark-cli: installed ${path.basename(binPath)} from ${installedFrom.kind}`,
  );
```

### 11. High: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@volcengine/ark-cli@1.0.25/scripts/postinstall.js>)

After installation it automatically executes the downloaded binary with +connect --refresh, which is described as installing skills into detected local agents.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
// —— +connect --refresh:下载最新 skill 到 <pkg>/skills/ 再装进各 agent ——
  // skill 的下载/解压/校验【收口在 Go 二进制】(internal/sk[redacted]),postinstall
  // 不再自己下 skill。+connect 非交互(自动检测 agent + 全装),有/无 tty 都能跑:有
  // tty 时把日志接到 /dev/tty(体验更好),无 tty 时走默认 stdio(connect 不读 stdin、
  // 不会卡)。整体是【增强项】:下载或安装失败仅告警,不影响包安装结果(exit 0)。
  let ttyFd = null;
  try {
    ttyFd = fs.openSync("/dev/tty", "r+");
  } catch (_) {
    /
```

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @volcengine/ark-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.25
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-09-03T14:22:03.261Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T04:05:31.564Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-04T04:23:32.521Z
- **Known versions:** 8
- **Latest version:** 1.0.25
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** 火山方舟 ARK 平台命令行工具
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=16
- **Supported OS:** darwin, linux, win32
- **Supported CPU:** x64, arm64
- **Artifact files:** 6
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 37,865 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@volcengine/ark-cli/v/1.0.25>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/volcengine/ark-cli.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/volcengine/ark-cli#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/volcengine/ark-cli/issues>)