---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/bumper-guard/v/0.2.5"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/bumper-guard/v/0.2.5.md"
package: "bumper-guard"
report_status: "published"
title: "bumper-guard@0.2.5 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.2.5"
---

# bumper-guard@0.2.5 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — The package gains a persistent interception point for agent tool requests and changes several unrelated user-level agent configurations.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Install Hook Abuse
- **Selected version:** 0.2.5
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Installing the package automatically modifies detected AI-agent control files, starts a background daemon, and creates login persistence. These actions occur without an explicit setup command.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-28T12:58:13.989Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-28T13:00:13.694Z
- **Download time:** 260 ms
- **Static scan time:** 210 ms
- **AI review time:** 119234 ms
- **Total time:** 119705 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Installing the package automatically modifies detected AI-agent control files, starts a background daemon, and creates login persistence. These actions occur without an explicit setup command.

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

- **Impact:** The package gains a persistent interception point for agent tool requests and changes several unrelated user-level agent configurations.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-28T13:00:13.694Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** automatic AI-agent hook injection and daemon persistence

- **Attack narrative:** On installation, the postinstall hook detects user-level Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and Codex directories and writes global integrations into them. It then launches the package daemon detached and enables operating-system login persistence. The hooks receive agent tool inputs, giving the persisted package a control point over later agent actions. This is unconsented lifecycle mutation of broad, foreign AI-agent control surfaces.

- **Rationale:** The automatic postinstall chain injects hooks into multiple detected AI-agent configurations and establishes background persistence. This meets the install-hook abuse blocking policy even though the inspected hook transport is local and no self-dependency was found.

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

- **Network endpoints:** https://bumper-usage-server.fly.dev, http://localhost:4790

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** The package runs a postinstall script automatically., The postinstall script detects several AI agent home directories and installs global hooks into them., The lifecycle script starts a detached daemon and enables login persistence without a user command., The persistence code writes and activates a user systemd service or launch agent., The installed hooks receive agent commands, file paths, and content before tool use.

- **Evidence against:** No runtime dependency on bumper-guard itself was found., The inspected hook path sends tool data only to the local daemon., The only external service found is used for account and quota requests, not hook payloads.

## 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@0.2.5/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@0.2.5/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@0.2.5/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@0.2.5/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: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/installers/autostart.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bumper-guard@0.2.5/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@0.2.4
matchedPath = src/installers/autostart.js
matchedIdentity = npm:YnVtcGVyLWd1YXJk:0.2.4
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 14. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/daemon.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bumper-guard@0.2.5/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@0.2.4
matchedPath = src/daemon.js
matchedIdentity = npm:YnVtcGVyLWd1YXJk:0.2.4
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 15. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/account.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bumper-guard@0.2.5/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@0.2.4
matchedPath = src/account.js
matchedIdentity = npm:YnVtcGVyLWd1YXJk:0.2.4
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 16. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/policy.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bumper-guard@0.2.5/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@0.2.4
matchedPath = src/policy.js
matchedIdentity = npm:YnVtcGVyLWd1YXJk:0.2.4
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 17. High: Known Malware Source Fingerprint Signature
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** src/installers/autostart.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bumper-guard@0.2.5/src/installers/autostart.js>)

Source fingerprint signature matches a known malicious package signature; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = malicious_source_fingerprint_signature
signature = 73280a514388764a
signatureType = suspicious_hashes
sourceLabel = final_verdict:malicious
matchedPackage = bumper-guard@0.2.4
matchedPath = src/installers/autostart.js
matchedIdentity = npm:YnVtcGVyLWd1YXJk:0.2.4
similarity = 1.000
shingleOverlap = 19
summary = package final verdict is malicious
```

## 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:** 0.2.5
- **License:** SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE
- **Version published:** 2026-08-28T12:49:23.037Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-28T12:08:31.962Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-28T13:02:07.172Z
- **Known versions:** 4
- **Latest version:** 0.2.6
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** A plain-language safety net for vibe coders. Pauses risky things your AI assistant (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Copilot CLI) is about to do, explains them in plain English, and lets you decide.
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 24
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 71,934 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/bumper-guard/v/0.2.5>)
- [Homepage](<https://bumper-guard.pages.dev/>)