---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/audit-tools/v/0.39.4"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/audit-tools/v/0.39.4.md"
package: "audit-tools"
report_status: "published"
title: "audit-tools@0.39.4 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.39.4"
---

# audit-tools@0.39.4 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. Persistent activation of package-provided AI-agent commands and permissions in multiple foreign global control surfaces.

- **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:** 0.39.4
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

LPM flags this version as an AI-agent control-surface risk. npm postinstall silently installs and updates AI-agent assets across Codex, Claude, OpenCode, and Gemini/Antigravity user configuration. It also mutates the consuming repository's .gitignore.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-08T09:09:18.135Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-08T09:09:50.570Z
- **Download time:** 503 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3943 ms
- **AI review time:** 27988 ms
- **Total time:** 32435 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** npm postinstall silently installs and updates AI-agent assets across Codex, Claude, OpenCode, and Gemini/Antigravity user configuration. It also mutates the consuming repository's .gitignore.

- **Trigger:** npm install of audit-tools@0.39.4

- **Impact:** Persistent activation of package-provided AI-agent commands and permissions in multiple foreign global control surfaces.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.mjs, scripts/audit/postinstall.mjs, scripts/remediate/postinstall.mjs, scripts/shared/install-host-assets.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-08T09:09:50.570Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** unconsented install-time cross-agent configuration and skill deployment

- **Attack narrative:** Installing the package invokes postinstall without a user command. That hook writes package-controlled skills, prompts, commands, and plugins into global Codex, Claude, OpenCode, and Gemini/Antigravity locations, and merges OpenCode permissions/configuration. These are foreign, broad AI-agent control surfaces; the mutation is persistent and occurs automatically at install time.

- **Rationale:** Direct source inspection confirms unconsented postinstall mutation of several global AI-agent control surfaces. This meets the install-control-surface block criterion regardless of benign-looking skill content.

- **Files touched:** ~/.codex/skills/audit-code/SKILL.md, ~/.codex/skills/remediate-code/SKILL.md, ~/.claude/commands/audit-code.md, ~/.claude/commands/remediate-code.md, ~/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/claude-plugins-official/external\_plugins/audit-code, ~/.config/opencode/opencode.json, ~/.gemini/config/plugins/audit-code, ~/.gemini/config/plugins/remediate-code, .gitignore

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** package.json runs postinstall automatically., scripts/audit/postinstall.mjs writes global Codex skill/prompt files., scripts/audit/postinstall.mjs writes Claude commands and plugin assets., scripts/shared/install-host-assets.mjs writes global OpenCode and Gemini config., Postinstall also merges AI-agent command and permission configuration.

- **Evidence against:** No credential harvesting or exfiltration found in inspected postinstall code., The inspected runtime network endpoint is unrelated to installation.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/audit-tools@0.39.4/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/audit-tools@0.39.4/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

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

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** wrapper/audit-code-wrapper-lib.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/audit-tools@0.39.4/wrapper/audit-code-wrapper-lib.mjs>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L271: const distUrl = new URL(`file:///${distCliEntry.replace(/\\/g, '/')}`);
L272: const cli = await import(distUrl.href);
L273: await cli.runCli([process.execPath, distCliEntry, commandName, ...commandArgs]);
```

### 6. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/audit/orchestrator/reviewPackets.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/audit-tools@0.39.4/dist/audit/orchestrator/reviewPackets.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L114: * `isolateAlone`/`onIsolate`/`onBeforeFlush` so behavior — including the
L115: * exact stderr wording — is unchanged.
L116: */
L117: function chunkPacketTasks(tasks, options) {
L118: const verbose = Boolean(process.env.AUDIT_CODE_VERBOSE);
L119: const sortedTasks = tasks.sort(compareTasksForPacket);
...
L132: const taskEstimatedTokens = taskContentTokens(task, options.sizeIndex, options.lineIndex);
L133: process.stderr.write(`[audit-code:packet-planning] isolated large-file chunk: task="${task.task_id}" file="${task.file_paths[0]}" estimatedTokens=${taskEstimatedTokens} targetPacke...
L134: },
```

### 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. Critical: Ai Agent Control Hijack
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** scripts/audit/postinstall.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/audit-tools@0.39.4/scripts/audit/postinstall.mjs>)

Source creates an unconsented AI-agent control surface through install-time mutation or a default unauthenticated remote skill channel.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Install-time code directly mutates a foreign AI-agent control surface:
L165: grep: 'allow',
L166: edit: { ...OPENCODE_AUDIT_EDIT_PERMISSION },
L167: bash: { ...OPENCODE_AUDIT_BASH_PERMISSION },
L168: };
...
L210: function claudePluginExternalDir() {
L211: return join(homedir(), '.claude', 'plugins', 'marketplaces', 'claude-plugins-official', 'external_plugins', 'audit-code');
L212: }
...
L228: label: 'Claude command',
L229: path: join(homedir(), '.claude', 'commands', 'audit-code.md'),
L230: sourcePath: promptSourceFile,
...
L234: label: 'Codex skill',
L235: path: join(homedir(), '.codex', 'skills', 'audit-code', 'SKILL.md'),
Write operation from scripts/shared/install-host-assets.mjs:
L12: import { dirname, join } from "node:path";
L13: import { mkdirSync, existsSync, readFileSync, writeF
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 13. 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.

### 14. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/audit/cli/args.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/audit-tools@0.39.4/dist/audit/cli/args.js>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_alias_growth_limit_exceeded; limitedFiles = 1
```

### 15. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/shared/tooling/exec.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/audit-tools@0.39.4/dist/shared/tooling/exec.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 = audit-tools@0.36.1
matchedPath = dist/shared/tooling/exec.js
matchedIdentity = npm:YXVkaXQtdG9vbHM:0.36.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 16. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/shared/quota/antigravityQuotaSource.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/audit-tools@0.39.4/dist/shared/quota/antigravityQuotaSource.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 = audit-tools@0.36.1
matchedPath = [redacted].js
matchedIdentity = npm:YXVkaXQtdG9vbHM:0.36.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/shared/quota/errorParsing.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/audit-tools@0.39.4/dist/shared/quota/errorParsing.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 = audit-tools@0.36.1
matchedPath = dist/shared/quota/errorParsing.js
matchedIdentity = npm:YXVkaXQtdG9vbHM:0.36.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 18. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/shared/providers/spawnLoggedCommand.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/audit-tools@0.39.4/dist/shared/providers/spawnLoggedCommand.js>)

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 = audit-tools@0.34.32
matchedIdentity = npm:YXVkaXQtdG9vbHM:0.34.32
similarity = 0.458
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, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 6
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 15
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 6

### Published dependency entries
- commander ^13.0.0 (Dependency)
- smol-toml ^1.6.1 (Dependency)
- undici ^7.28.0 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.9.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^3.25.76 (Dependency)
- zod-to-json-schema ^3.24.6 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** audit-tools
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.39.4
- **License:** ISC
- **Version published:** 2026-08-08T02:28:20.189Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T01:47:41.085Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-12T23:26:00.044Z
- **Known versions:** 68
- **Latest version:** 0.41.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Portable hybrid code auditing + remediation orchestrators for arbitrary repositories.
- **Keywords:** audit, remediation, cli, code-audit, static-analysis, orchestration, agents
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22
- **Artifact files:** 2141
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 10,633,724 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/audit-tools/v/0.39.4>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/OhOkThisIsFine/audit-tools.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/OhOkThisIsFine/audit-tools#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/OhOkThisIsFine/audit-tools/issues>)