---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/cac-windows/v/1.0.23"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/cac-windows/v/1.0.23.md"
package: "cac-windows"
report_status: "published"
title: "cac-windows@1.0.23 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.0.23"
---

# cac-windows@1.0.23 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 15 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 1.0.23
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

Static analysis flagged 15 finding(s) at 97.0% confidence. This version is warn-only unless an AI or security-team review confirms malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T14:03:42.876Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T14:03:43.258Z
- **Download time:** 513 ms
- **Static scan time:** 139 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 382 ms

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cac-windows@1.0.23/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cac-windows@1.0.23/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** fingerprint-hook.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cac-windows@1.0.23/fingerprint-hook.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L7: const fs = require('fs');
L8: const child_process = require('child_process');
L9:
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cac-windows@1.0.23/scripts/postinstall.js>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: 
L5: var pkgDir = path.join(__dirname, '..');
L6: var cacBin = path.join(pkgDir, 'cac');
L7: var home = process.env.HOME || process.env.USERPROFILE || '';
L8: var cacDir = path.join(home, '.cac');
...
L12: 
L13: // Windows: override npm-generated shims (cac.cmd, cac.ps1) to use PowerShell version.
L14: // npm auto-generates shims that call `bash cac`, but on Windows the system `bash`
...
L16: // Windows entry point, so we make the shims call it directly.
L17: if (process.platform === 'win32') {
L18: try {
...
L27: var result = spawnSync('npm', ['prefix', '-g'], { encoding: 'utf8', shell: true });
```

### 9. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cac-windows@1.0.23/scripts/postinstall.js>)

Source spawns a local helper that also contains network and dynamic execution context; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Cross-file remote execution chain: scripts/postinstall.js spawns cac-dns-guard.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L4: 
L5: var pkgDir = path.join(__dirname, '..');
L6: var cacBin = path.join(pkgDir, 'cac');
L7: var home = process.env.HOME || process.env.USERPROFILE || '';
L8: var cacDir = path.join(home, '.cac');
...
L12: 
L13: // Windows: override npm-generated shims (cac.cmd, cac.ps1) to use PowerShell version.
L14: // npm auto-generates shims that call `bash cac`, but on Windows the system `bash`
...
L16: // Windows entry point, so we make the shims call it directly.
L17: if (process.platform === 'win32') {
L18: try {
...
L27: var result = spawnSync('npm', ['prefix', '-g'], { encoding: 'utf8', shell: true });
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 12. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** cac.ps1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cac-windows@1.0.23/cac.ps1>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = cac.ps1
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 36994
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 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: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 95.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cac-windows@1.0.23/scripts/postinstall.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 = cac-windows@1.0.11
matchedPath = scripts/postinstall.js
matchedIdentity = npm:Y2FjLXdpbmRvd3M:1.0.11
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:** cac-dns-guard.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cac-windows@1.0.23/cac-dns-guard.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 = cac-windows@1.0.11
matchedPath = cac-dns-guard.js
matchedIdentity = npm:Y2FjLXdpbmRvd3M:1.0.11
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

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

### Published dependency entries
- @anthropic-ai/claude-code 2.1.77 || 2.1.202 || 2.1.222 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** cac-windows
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.23
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-05T14:02:23.395Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-14T10:08:44.267Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-13T07:44:16.007Z
- **Known versions:** 8
- **Latest version:** 1.0.24
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Claude Code Windows environment manager — identity isolation, fingerprint spoofing, timezone alignment.
- **Author:** 234150476
- **Maintainers:** cfy19927
- **Keywords:** claude, claude-code, anthropic, privacy, proxy, telemetry, fingerprint, windows, powershell, timezone, cloak, cli
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=14.0.0
- **Supported OS:** win32
- **Artifact files:** 12
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 246,002 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/cac-windows/v/1.0.23>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/234150476/cac-windows>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/234150476/cac-windows/issues>)