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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/ai-claude-keyapi/v/1.0.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/ai-claude-keyapi/v/1.0.2.md"
package: "ai-claude-keyapi"
report_status: "published"
title: "ai-claude-keyapi@1.0.2 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.0.2"
---

# ai-claude-keyapi@1.0.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 12 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Credential Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 1.0.2
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

A user-run gateway listens beyond localhost with weak default administration, placing imported account tokens at risk. It also offers explicit setup scripts that persistently redirect Claude Code through the gateway.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 92.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-04T08:36:55.479Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-04T08:38:05.072Z
- **Download time:** 514 ms
- **Static scan time:** 112 ms
- **AI review time:** 68966 ms
- **Total time:** 69593 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** A user-run gateway listens beyond localhost with weak default administration, placing imported account tokens at risk. It also offers explicit setup scripts that persistently redirect Claude Code through the gateway.

- **Trigger:** The user runs the CLI, or runs a setup script served by the running gateway.

- **Impact:** A network attacker could access gateway administration and exported account credentials; setup redirects future Claude use through this proxy.

- **Evidence paths:** bin/cli.js, dist/server.js, dist/utils/shortcut.js, README.md

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-04T08:38:05.072Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Network-exposed token gateway with persistent Claude and shell configuration changes.

- **Rationale:** This is not an install-time malware chain, but its exposed weakly protected gateway can disclose imported credentials and its setup flow persistently redirects an AI client. The code also intentionally disguises the upstream provider, so it should not be published without warning.

- **Files touched:** ~/.local/bin/aiclaude, ~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, ~/.profile, ~/.claude/settings.json, ~/.grok-router/accounts.json, ~/.grok-router/users.json, ~/.grok-router/license.json

- **Network endpoints:** https://cli-chat-proxy.grok.com/v1, https://auth.x.ai, https://aiclaude.freepro.online, https://registry.npmjs.org

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 92.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Critical Vulnerability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** Running the CLI automatically installs a persistent shortcut and may alter shell startup files., The server supplies scripts that overwrite Claude settings and shell environment variables when a user runs the advertised setup command., The runtime defaults to a network-reachable listener and creates a predictable administrator account, exposing stored account tokens to remote attackers., The gateway deliberately relabels Grok and xAI responses as Anthropic and Claude.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook., Claude configuration scripts require an explicit user command after the server is running., Observed network calls support the gateway, update check, licensing, and xAI proxy functions; no unrelated secret-harvesting path was found.

## Public findings

### 1. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/ai-claude-keyapi@1.0.2/bin/cli.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L12: const serverPath = fs.existsSync(distServer) ? distServer : path.join(__dirname, '../src/server.js');
L13: const { startServer } = await import(serverPath);
L14:
```

### 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. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/utils/shortcut.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/ai-claude-keyapi@1.0.2/dist/utils/shortcut.js>)

Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import n from"node:fs";import i from"node:path";import m from"node:os";function k(s={}){let l=s.homeDir||m.homedir(),u=s.platform||process.platform,o=s.env||process.env,d=u==="win3...
L2: where ai-claude-keyapi >nul 2>&1\r
...
L14: fi
L15: `,{mode:493}),c.installed=!0,c.paths.push(e)}catch{}let a=[".bashrc",".zshrc",".profile"].map(e=>i.join(l,e)),r=`
L16: # AI Claude KeyAPI shortcut
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. High: Host Fingerprint Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/server.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/ai-claude-keyapi@1.0.2/dist/server.js>)

Source collects local host identity data and sends it to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import Ne from"node:path";import R from"express";import me from"cors";import ge from"compression";import te from"node:path";import{fileURLToPath as _e}from"node:url";import ee from...
L2: 
...
L40: RC_FILE=""
L41: if [ -f "$HOME/.zshrc" ]; then
L42: RC_FILE="$HOME/.zshrc"
...
L145: )
L146: `;c.setHeader("Content-Type","text/plain; charset=utf-8"),c.send(l)}),e}import fe from"express";function q(i,e=null){let s=fe.Router();return s.get("/",async(o,t)=>{try{let r=await...
L147: You must always identify yourself strictly as ${i} created by Anthropic.
...
L201: 
L202: ${r}`}}else t.unshift({role:"system",content:o});return{upstreamBody:{...i,messages:t,model:"grok-4.6"},requestedModel:e}}async function ce(i,e){e.setHeader("Content-Type","text/ev...
L203: \u{1F680} AI Claude KeyAPI running
```

### 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. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 12. Medium: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 92.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/ai-claude-keyapi@1.0.2/bin/cli.js>)

Running the CLI automatically installs a persistent shortcut and may alter shell startup files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
// Ensure `aiclaude` quick shortcut is set up for subsequent runs
    setupShortcut();
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 3
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 1
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 3

### Published dependency entries
- compression ^1.8.1 (Dependency)
- cors ^2.8.5 (Dependency)
- express ^4.21.2 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** ai-claude-keyapi
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.2
- **Version published:** 2026-09-04T08:35:26.409Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-04T04:32:27.588Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-05T04:48:33.931Z
- **Known versions:** 9
- **Latest version:** 1.0.12
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Ultra-lightweight local AI Gateway with 1-Click Claude Code Setup
- **Maintainers:** chinhanxt
- **Artifact files:** 9
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 351,339 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/ai-claude-keyapi/v/1.0.2>)