---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/botmux/v/3.18.6"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/botmux/v/3.18.6.md"
package: "botmux"
report_status: "published"
title: "botmux@3.18.6 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "3.18.6"
---

# botmux@3.18.6 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — A remote sandbox receives an unpinned later release of the package, which can alter the sandbox user's command resolution and shell startup behavior without a separate installation action.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Install Hook Abuse
- **Selected version:** 3.18.6
- **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.

Creating a Riff task automatically sends a global npm installation of botmux to a remote sandbox. The installed release runs postinstall, which installs an executable launcher and changes shell startup configuration.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 97.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-16T18:51:16.504Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-16T18:52:53.239Z
- **Download time:** 1795 ms
- **Static scan time:** 10700 ms
- **AI review time:** 84240 ms
- **Total time:** 96735 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:** Creating a Riff task automatically sends a global npm installation of botmux to a remote sandbox. The installed release runs postinstall, which installs an executable launcher and changes shell startup configuration.

- **Trigger:** A Riff-backed botmux task is created.

- **Impact:** A remote sandbox receives an unpinned later release of the package, which can alter the sandbox user's command resolution and shell startup behavior without a separate installation action.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/adapters/backend/riff-backend.js, package.json, scripts/postinstall-bin.mjs, scripts/install-path-entry.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-16T18:52:53.239Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Automatic self-installation followed by lifecycle-based launcher and PATH persistence.

- **Attack narrative:** When a Riff task is created, the package submits a mandatory setup command that runs \`npm install -g botmux\` with output suppressed and follows the latest tag. That nested installation runs this package's postinstall hook. The hook writes an executable launcher under the user's home directory and invokes a helper that changes shell startup files to put it on PATH. This is an automatic lifecycle self-dependency chain with persistent environment mutation.

- **Rationale:** The source establishes an automatic, unpinned self-install chain into a remote sandbox and a lifecycle hook that persistently changes command execution and shell configuration. This matches malicious install-hook abuse under the stated lifecycle self-dependency policy.

- **Files touched:** ~/.botmux/bin/botmux, ~/.zshenv, ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash\_profile, ~/.bash\_login, ~/.profile, ~/.config/fish/conf.d/botmux.fish

- **Network endpoints:** https://registry.npmjs.org/

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 97.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for block:** The Riff backend unconditionally sends a hidden-output global installation command for botmux to every remote task., That command can install a different latest release of this same lifecycle-enabled package., The package declares a postinstall hook that runs during the nested global installation., Postinstall writes an executable launcher and automatically edits shell startup files, creating persistence in the sandbox user's environment.

- **Evidence against:** The postinstall script exits unless npm identifies the install as global., No direct secret exfiltration was confirmed in the inspected install chain.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to botmux@3.18.6.

- Avoid installing botmux@3.18.6. 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/botmux@3.18.6/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

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

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/codex-rpc-engine.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/botmux@3.18.6/dist/codex-rpc-engine.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L23: // what froze the Web terminal). See codex-rpc-lifecycle + worker engageCodexRpc.
L24: import { spawn, execFileSync } from 'node:child_process';
L25: import { createServer } from 'node:net';
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/worker-pool.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/botmux@3.18.6/dist/core/worker-pool.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L79: /** 在完整 Worker 模块加载前接住首条 IPC，避免冷启动耗时被误判为投递失败。 */
L80: function workerForkExecArgv() {
L81: const preloadPath = join(__dirname, '..', 'worker-ipc-preload.js');
```

### 6. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

### 7. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/plugins/runtime.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/botmux@3.18.6/dist/core/plugins/runtime.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L90: throw new Error(`plugin_service_entry_not_found:${record.id}:${entrypoint}`);
L91: const mod = await import(pathToFileURL(entry).href);
L92: const exported = mod.default ?? mod;
```

### 8. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/worker.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/botmux@3.18.6/dist/worker.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L9: *   3. Spawns CLI via CliAdapter + PtyBackend (interactive mode)
L10: *   4. Starts HTTP + WebSocket server for xterm.js
L11: *   5. Receives 'message' events from daemon, writes to PTY stdin
...
L20: import { homedir, tmpdir, userInfo } from 'node:os';
L21: import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process';
L22: import { [redacted], credentialIsolationRequired, [redacted], [redacted], buildCredentialIsolationRules...
...
L176: // this one covers any worker spawn path that bypasses it). Scrubbing
L177: // process.env — not just the spawned child's env — matters because worker-side
L178: // resolvers consult it dynamically (codex submit confirmation / resume
...
L723: headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' },
L724: body: JSON.stringify({
L725: sessionId: cfg.sessionId,
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

### 11. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/autostart.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/botmux@3.18.6/dist/autostart.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L16: */
L17: import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process';
L18: import { existsSync, mkdirSync, writeFileSync, unlinkSync, readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
...
L24: function platform() {
L25: if (process.platform === 'darwin')
L26: return 'macos';
...
L36: function plistPath() {
L37: return join(homedir(), 'Library', 'LaunchAgents', `${LABEL}.plist`);
L38: }
...
L56: // tmux, etc.). Falls back to a sane default if PATH is empty.
L57: const p = process.env.PATH || '';
L58: if (p)
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 13. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/mira-runner.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/botmux@3.18.6/dist/mira-runner.js>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import { execFileSync } from 'node:child_process';
L3: import { existsSync } from 'node:fs';
...
L8: import { RunnerControlWriter } from './adapters/cli/runner-control-channel.js';
L9: const MIRA_DOMAIN = 'https://mira.bytedance.com';
L10: const API_BASE_URL = process.env.MIRA_API_BASE_URL ?? `${MIRA_DOMAIN}/mira/api/v1`;
L11: const MODEL_METADATA_URL = process.env.MIRA_MODEL_METADATA_URL ?? `${MIRA_DOMAIN}/api/v1/model/metadata`;
```

### 14. Critical: Download Execute
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/setup/ensure-tmux.js\#virtual:string-array:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/botmux@3.18.6/dist/setup/ensure-tmux.js%23virtual%3Astring-array%3Around1>)

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
L17: * threw on failure; that broke users whose tmux binary was present but
L18: * couldn"t actually start a server (corrupt install / restricted /tmp /\n * broken ~/.tmux.conf — see daemon-error logs full of \"error connecting to\n * /tmp/tmux-UID/default\"), ...
L19: * terminal tmux is gone (logged out, server killed, /tmp wiped) every
...
L53: }
L54: export function tmuxEnv(env = process.env) {
L55: const rest = {};
...
L209: }
L210: /** Suggest the manual command we"d have run, for the failure message. */\nexport function suggestManualCommand(pm, pkg) {\n    switch (pm) {\n        case "brew": return `brew ins...
L211: // present-but-broken tmux as "genuinely absent".
```

### 15. High: Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/features/codex-notifier/hook-installer.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/botmux@3.18.6/dist/features/codex-notifier/hook-installer.js>)

Manifest-trigger-reachable source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-trigger-reachable source links an external AI-agent control path to a behavior-bearing write operation.
import { accesssync, constants, existssync, mkdirsync, readfilesync } from 'node:fs';
import { homedir } from 'node:os';
import { dirname, join, win32 } from 'node:path';
import { atomicwritefilesync } from '../../utils/atomic-write.js';
function shellword(value) {
    if (/^[a-za-z0-9_./:@%+=,-]+$/.test(value))
        return value;
    return `'${value.replaceall("'", `'"'"'`)}'`;
}
export function codexhookspath(env = process.env, userhome = homedir()) {
    const codexhome = typeof env.codex_home === 'string' && env.codex_home.trim()
        ? env.codex_home.trim()
        : join(userhome, '.codex');
    return join(codexhome, 'hooks.json');
}
export function botmuxcodexnoti
```

### 16. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/setup/ensure-tmux.js\#virtual:string-array:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/botmux@3.18.6/dist/setup/ensure-tmux.js%23virtual%3Astring-array%3Around1>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
Trigger-reachable chain: manifest.main -> dist/index-daemon.js -> dist/daemon.js -> dist/setup/ensure-tmux.js
L17: * threw on failure; that broke users whose tmux binary was present but
L18: * couldn"t actually start a server (corrupt install / restricted /tmp /\n * broken ~/.tmux.conf — see daemon-error logs full of \"error connecting to\n * /tmp/tmux-UID/default\"), ...
L19: * terminal tmux is gone (logged out, server killed, /tmp wiped) every
...
L53: }
L54: export function tmuxEnv(env = process.env) {
L55: const rest = {};
...
L209: }
L210: /** Suggest the manual command we"d have run, for the failure message. */\nexport function suggestManualCommand(pm, pkg) {\n    switch (pm) {\n        case "brew": return `brew ins...
L211: // present-but-broken tmux as "genuinely absent".
```

### 17. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/services/skill-registry-store.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/botmux@3.18.6/dist/services/skill-registry-store.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
L875: // detached → own process group, so we can SIGKILL the WHOLE tree. The
L876: // configured command is usually a shim (`npx agentbuddy@latest …`), so the
L877: // real agentbuddy is a grandchild; killing only the direct child would
L878: // leave it alive holding the pipes and polling the auth server.
L879: child = spawn(bin, [...prefixArgs, ...args], { cwd, stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "pipe"], detached: true });
L880: }
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 20. 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.

### 21. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/adapters/backend/mojo-types.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/botmux@3.18.6/dist/adapters/backend/mojo-types.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 33
```

### 22. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/adapters/backend/riff-backend.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/botmux@3.18.6/dist/adapters/backend/riff-backend.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 = botmux@3.22.0
matchedIdentity = npm:Ym90bXV4:3.22.0
similarity = 0.500
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, prepare, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 15
- **Optional dependencies:** 7
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 19
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 22

### Published dependency entries
- @larksuiteoapi/node-sdk ^1.64.0 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.29.0 (Dependency)
- @xterm/addon-unicode11 ^0.9.0 (Dependency)
- @xterm/headless ^6.0.0 (Dependency)
- croner ^10.0.1 (Dependency)
- dotenv ^17.3.1 (Dependency)
- markdown-it ^14.1.1 (Dependency)
- pm2 ^6.0.0 (Dependency)
- proxy-agent ^6.5.0 (Dependency)
- qrcode-terminal ^0.12.0 (Dependency)
- react ^19.2.7 (Dependency)
- react-dom ^19.2.7 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.19.0 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.9.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^3.23.0 (Dependency)
- @napi-rs/canvas ^0.1.65 (OptionalDependency)
- botmux-darwin-arm64 3.18.6 (OptionalDependency)
- botmux-darwin-x64 3.18.6 (OptionalDependency)
- botmux-linux-arm64 3.18.6 (OptionalDependency)
- botmux-linux-arm64-musl 3.18.6 (OptionalDependency)
- botmux-linux-x64 3.18.6 (OptionalDependency)
- botmux-linux-x64-musl 3.18.6 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** botmux
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 3.18.6
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-29T09:26:36.616Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T22:10:23.643Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-08T01:41:27.574Z
- **Known versions:** 48
- **Latest version:** 3.36.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Bridge between IM platforms and AI coding CLIs — one topic, one CLI session with live streaming
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22
- **Artifact files:** 4192
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 38,881,025 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/botmux/v/3.18.6>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/deepcoldy/botmux.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/deepcoldy/botmux#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/deepcoldy/botmux/issues>)