---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/bumper-guard/v/0.2.13"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/bumper-guard/v/0.2.13.md"
package: "bumper-guard"
report_status: "published"
title: "bumper-guard@0.2.13 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.2.13"
---

# bumper-guard@0.2.13 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — The package intercepts AI-agent tool activity and persists a daemon without an explicit setup command.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Install Hook Abuse
- **Selected version:** 0.2.13
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Installing the package automatically modifies global Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot hook control surfaces. It starts a detached local daemon and registers it to run at login.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-01T14:13:34.706Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-01T14:14:35.769Z
- **Download time:** 506 ms
- **Static scan time:** 425 ms
- **AI review time:** 60131 ms
- **Total time:** 61063 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Installing the package automatically modifies global Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot hook control surfaces. It starts a detached local daemon and registers it to run at login.

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

- **Impact:** The package intercepts AI-agent tool activity and persists a daemon without an explicit setup command.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, src/installers/postinstall.js, src/installers/claude-code.js, src/installers/cursor.js, src/installers/autostart.js, src/daemon.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-01T14:14:35.769Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** automatic AI-agent hook injection plus login persistence

- **Attack narrative:** On installation, the postinstall script detects AI-agent directories and silently adds global hooks that invoke package code before tool actions. It then starts a detached daemon and installs a per-user login service. The hooks forward commands, paths, and content to that daemon, which writes request records to a home-directory audit log. This is unconsented postinstall mutation of broad AI-agent control surfaces combined with persistence.

- **Rationale:** The automatic lifecycle chain modifies foreign global AI-agent configurations and establishes persistent background execution. This meets the install-hook abuse blocking policy even though direct external exfiltration of hook data was not found.

- **Files touched:** ~/.claude/settings.json, ~/.cursor/hooks.json, ~/.copilot/hooks/bumper.json, ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.bumper.autostart.plist, ~/.config/systemd/user/bumper.service, Windows Startup/BumperAutostart.vbs, ~/.bumper/audit.jsonl

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** The postinstall hook automatically detects installed AI tools, globally wires their hook configurations, starts a detached daemon, and enables login persistence., Global Claude Code integration appends a command hook for every pre-tool action to the user's settings file., Global Cursor integration adds shell and MCP hooks to the user's Cursor configuration., The install path creates operating-system login persistence through launchd, systemd, or the Windows Startup folder., The daemon records complete hook requests, including commands, file paths, and content, in a user-home audit log.

- **Evidence against:** No runtime dependency on another release of this package was found., The only external service code inspected is account and quota traffic; no direct remote upload of captured hook requests was found.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bumper-guard@0.2.13/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node src/installers/postinstall.js || true
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bumper-guard@0.2.13/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node src/installers/postinstall.js || true
```

### 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. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** src/installers/autostart.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bumper-guard@0.2.13/src/installers/autostart.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: const path = require("path");
L4: const { execFileSync } = require("child_process");
L5: 
...
L10: 
L11: const BIN_PATH = path.join(__dirname, "..", "..", "bin", "bumper.js");
L12: const LAUNCH_AGENT_LABEL = "com.bumper.autostart";
...
L26: const WIN_STARTUP_DIR = () =>
L27: path.join(process.env.APPDATA || path.join(os.homedir(), "AppData", "Roaming"), "Microsoft", "Windows", "Start Menu", "Programs", "Startup");
L28: const WIN_LAUNCHER_PATH = () => path.join(WIN_STARTUP_DIR(), "BumperAutostart.vbs");
...
L79: fs.writeFileSync(LAUNCH_AGENT_PATH, plistContents());
L80: run("launchctl", ["load", "-w", LAUNCH_AGENT_PATH]);
L81: return { platform: "darwin", mechanism: "launchd LaunchAgent", ref: LAUNCH_AGENT_PATH };
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** src/installers/autostart.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bumper-guard@0.2.13/src/installers/autostart.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches persistence behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable persistence chain: scripts.postinstall -> src/installers/postinstall.js -> src/installers/autostart.js
L3: const path = require("path");
L4: const { execFileSync } = require("child_process");
L5: 
...
L10: 
L11: const BIN_PATH = path.join(__dirname, "..", "..", "bin", "bumper.js");
L12: const LAUNCH_AGENT_LABEL = "com.bumper.autostart";
...
L26: const WIN_STARTUP_DIR = () =>
L27: path.join(process.env.APPDATA || path.join(os.homedir(), "AppData", "Roaming"), "Microsoft", "Windows", "Start Menu", "Programs", "Startup");
L28: const WIN_LAUNCHER_PATH = () => path.join(WIN_STARTUP_DIR(), "BumperAutostart.vbs");
...
L79: fs.writeFileSync(LAUNCH_AGENT_PATH, plistContents());
L80: run("launchctl", ["load", "-w", LAUNCH_AGENT_PATH]);
L81: return { platform: "darwin", mechanism: "
```

### 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. 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.

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 13. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bumper-guard@0.2.13/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 2
```

### 14. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 95.0%
- **Path:** bin/bumper.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bumper-guard@0.2.13/bin/bumper.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = token_shingles
matchedPackage = bumper-guard@0.2.12
matchedPath = bin/bumper.js
matchedIdentity = npm:YnVtcGVyLWd1YXJk:0.2.12
similarity = 1.000
shingleOverlap = 48
summary = source token shingles overlapped finalized malicious source
```

### 15. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/installers/autostart.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bumper-guard@0.2.13/src/installers/autostart.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 = bumper-guard@0.2.12
matchedPath = src/installers/autostart.js
matchedIdentity = npm:YnVtcGVyLWd1YXJk:0.2.12
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 16. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/daemon.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bumper-guard@0.2.13/src/daemon.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 = bumper-guard@0.2.12
matchedPath = src/daemon.js
matchedIdentity = npm:YnVtcGVyLWd1YXJk:0.2.12
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/account.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bumper-guard@0.2.13/src/account.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 = bumper-guard@0.2.12
matchedPath = src/account.js
matchedIdentity = npm:YnVtcGVyLWd1YXJk:0.2.12
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 18. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/policy.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bumper-guard@0.2.13/src/policy.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 = bumper-guard@0.2.12
matchedPath = src/policy.js
matchedIdentity = npm:YnVtcGVyLWd1YXJk:0.2.12
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 5
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 5

### Published dependency entries
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.12.0 (Dependency)
- commander ^12.1.0 (Dependency)
- express ^4.21.2 (Dependency)
- js-yaml ^4.1.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^3.23.8 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** bumper-guard
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.2.13
- **License:** SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE
- **Version published:** 2026-09-01T14:11:16.052Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-28T12:08:31.962Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-01T14:14:35.769Z
- **Known versions:** 9
- **Latest version:** 0.2.13
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** A plain-language safety net for vibe coders. Pauses risky things your AI assistant (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot CLI) is about to do, explains them in plain English, and lets you decide.
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 22
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 80,037 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/bumper-guard/v/0.2.13>)
- [Homepage](<https://bumper-guard.pages.dev/>)