---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/cartethyia/v/2.3.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/cartethyia/v/2.3.1.md"
package: "cartethyia"
report_status: "published"
title: "cartethyia@2.3.1 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "2.3.1"
---

# cartethyia@2.3.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 20 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 2.3.1
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The flagged CLI operations are package-aligned version checking, local gateway management, and user-invoked updating; the apparent secret match is compressed offline model catalog content. The package manifest has no install lifecycle hook, and the inspected source does not establish credential exfiltration or another concrete attack.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-18T03:31:37.944Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-18T03:32:46.482Z
- **Download time:** 2794 ms
- **Static scan time:** 4098 ms
- **AI review time:** 61645 ms
- **Total time:** 68538 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:** No attack was identified in the inspected sources. The CLI performs an npm version lookup and local gateway checks, while update installation requires a user action.

- **Trigger:** Running the CLI; npm installation is triggered by the explicit update command or tray update action.

- **Impact:** No confirmed attack surface was established from these behaviors.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-18T03:32:46.482Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The version lookup reads package metadata from the npm registry; gateway health and drain requests target localhost. The inspected requests do not transmit saved credentials to an unrelated recipient.

- **Rationale:** The flagged CLI operations are package-aligned version checking, local gateway management, and user-invoked updating; the apparent secret match is compressed offline model catalog content. The package manifest has no install lifecycle hook, and the inspected source does not establish credential exfiltration or another concrete attack.

- **Network endpoints:** https://registry.npmjs.org/cartethyia/latest, http://127.0.0.1:${port}/health, http://127.0.0.1:${port}/admin/drain

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** package.json defines development, build, setup, and packaging scripts, with no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook. The CLI checks npm for the latest version, probes the local gateway, and starts setup, gateway, tray, or update only through explicit commands. The generated catalog identifies itself as a compressed offline model catalog; inspected required source locations describe gateway, provider, transport, network, persistence, and security functions.

- **Evidence against:** Scanner labels the CLI as credential exfiltration and flags the catalog as containing a secret, but the inspected CLI sends no credentials in its npm version check, and the flagged catalog is compressed offline catalog data., The CLI can run npm to update Cartethyia, but the inspected calls are reached through the explicit update command or tray update action. No package-install lifecycle trigger was found.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to cartethyia@2.3.1.

- Review the evidence and your use of cartethyia@2.3.1 before allowing it. Restrict the permissions described in this report.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.

## Public findings

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. High: High Secret
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** src/providers/discovery/catalog/catalog-blob.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cartethyia@2.3.1/src/providers/discovery/catalog/catalog-blob.ts>)

Package contains a high-severity secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 15
```

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** scripts/cli/cli.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cartethyia@2.3.1/scripts/cli/cli.ts>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L2: import { existsSync, mkdirSync, readFileSync, unlinkSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
L3: import { spawn, type ChildProcess } from "node:child_process";
L4: import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
```

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

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/dashboard/assets/entry-C3M9aRLH.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cartethyia@2.3.1/dist/dashboard/assets/entry-C3M9aRLH.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: 
L4: Please change the parent <Route path="${e}"> to <Route path="${e===`/`?`*`:`${e}/*`}">.`)}let u=G(),d;if(t){let e=typeof t==`string`?R(t):t;F(c===`/`||e.pathname?.startsWith(c),`Wh...
```

### 6. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** src/providers/integrations/qoder/qoder.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cartethyia@2.3.1/src/providers/integrations/qoder/qoder.ts>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L31: export const MODERN_PROFILE: QoderModeProfile = {
L32: chatUrl: "https://api2.qoder.sh/algo/api/v2/service/pro/sse/agent_chat_generation?FetchKeys=llm_model_result&AgentId=agent_common&Encode=1",
L33: businessProduct: "cli",
...
L195: function transformQoderBody(plaintext: string): Uint8Array {
L196: const base64 = Buffer.from(plaintext).toString("base64");
L197: const third = Math.floor(base64.length / 3);
...
L207: function qoderBuildCosyHeaders(
L208: body: Uint8Array,
L209: url: string,
...
L661: readonly provider_id = QODER_PROVIDER_ID;
L662: private readonly fetchFn: typeof fetch;
L663:
```

### 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. High: Entrypoint Build Divergence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** scripts/cli/cli-launcher.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cartethyia@2.3.1/scripts/cli/cli-launcher.cjs>)

Manifest entrypoint contains risky behavior absent from dist/build output.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest entrypoint (manifest.bin) carries capability families absent from dist/build output: environment+network, execution+network
L7: const path = require("node:path");
L8: const { spawn } = require("node:child_process");
L9: 
L10: const packageRoot = path.resolve(__dirname, "..", "..");
L11: const cliPath = path.join(packageRoot, "scripts", "cli", "cli.ts");
L12: const configDir = process.env.CARTETHYIA_CONFIG_DIR || (
L13: process.platform === "win32"
L14: ? path.join(process.env.APPDATA || os.homedir(), "Cartethyia")
...
L38: if (error.code === "ENOENT") {
L39: console.error("Cartethyia requires Bun 1.4.0 or newer. Install Bun from https://bun.sh, then run this command again.");
L40: } else {
...
L42: }
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 11. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** scripts/cli/cli.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cartethyia@2.3.1/scripts/cli/cli.ts>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L141: try {
L142: const response = await fetch("https://registry.npmjs.org/cartethyia/latest", {
L143: signal: AbortSignal.timeout(4_000),
...
L153: function launchUpdatedTray(signalPath: string): ChildProcess {
L154: const env = { ...process.env, CARTETHYIA_TRAY_STARTUP_SIGNAL: signalPath };
L155: const child = spawn(
L156: process.execPath,
```

### 12. Critical: Hardcoded Runtime Data Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** scripts/cli/cli.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cartethyia@2.3.1/scripts/cli/cli.ts>)

Source sends credentials or rich application records to a package-controlled external receiver enabled by default.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
Source sends the broad process environment to a literal external destination.
L2: import { existsSync, mkdirSync, readFileSync, unlinkSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
L3: import { spawn, type ChildProcess } from "node:child_process";
L4: import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
...
L10: 
L11: process.env.CARTETHYIA_CONFIG_DIR ??= resolveUserConfigDir();
L12: 
...
L29: throw new Error(
L30: `Bun ${MINIMUM_BUN_VERSION} or newer is required (found ${Bun.version}). Install it from https://bun.sh and run this command again.`,
L31: );
...
L71: try {
L72: const parsed: unknown = JSON.parse(readFileSync(signalPath, "utf8"));
L73: if (parsed !== null && typeof parsed === "object" && "status" in parsed) {
```

### 13. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** scripts/cli/cli.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cartethyia@2.3.1/scripts/cli/cli.ts>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L2: import { existsSync, mkdirSync, readFileSync, unlinkSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
L3: import { spawn, type ChildProcess } from "node:child_process";
L4: import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
...
L10: 
L11: process.env.CARTETHYIA_CONFIG_DIR ??= resolveUserConfigDir();
L12: 
...
L29: throw new Error(
L30: `Bun ${MINIMUM_BUN_VERSION} or newer is required (found ${Bun.version}). Install it from https://bun.sh and run this command again.`,
L31: );
...
L71: try {
L72: const parsed: unknown = JSON.parse(readFileSync(signalPath, "utf8"));
L73: if (parsed !== null && typeof parsed === "object" && "status" in parsed) {
```

### 14. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** scripts/cli/cli.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cartethyia@2.3.1/scripts/cli/cli.ts>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L92: const command = process.platform === "win32"
L93: ? "cmd.exe"
L94: : "npm";
L95: const args = process.platform === "win32"
L96: ? ["/d", "/s", "/c", "npm install --global cartethyia@latest"]
L97: : ["install", "--global", "cartethyia@latest"];
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 17. 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.

### 18. Low: Copyleft License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest declares a copyleft-style license.

### 19. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** src/boot/dependencies.ts\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cartethyia@2.3.1/src/boot/dependencies.ts%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 = 9
```

### 20. High: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** src/providers/discovery/catalog/catalog-blob.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cartethyia@2.3.1/src/providers/discovery/catalog/catalog-blob.ts>)

Google API key in src/providers/discovery/catalog/catalog-blob.ts

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 15
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 15
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 5
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 15

### Published dependency entries
- @bufbuild/protobuf ^2.14.1 (Dependency)
- @electric-sql/pglite ^0.5.8 (Dependency)
- drizzle-orm 0.45.2 (Dependency)
- elysia ^2.0.0-beta.16 (Dependency)
- exact-mirror ^1.2.6 (Dependency)
- impit ^0.14.5 (Dependency)
- ioredis 6.0.0 (Dependency)
- pg 8.23.0 (Dependency)
- pino ^10.3.1 (Dependency)
- pino-pretty ^13.1.3 (Dependency)
- socks-proxy-agent ^10.1.0 (Dependency)
- systray2 2.1.4 (Dependency)
- typebox 1.3.27 (Dependency)
- undici ^8.10.2 (Dependency)
- ws 8.22.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** cartethyia
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.3.1
- **License:** GPL-3.0-only
- **Version published:** 2026-10-18T03:28:27.826Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-10-18T02:47:14.301Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-22T13:59:03.802Z
- **Known versions:** 16
- **Latest version:** 2.5.4
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** A powerful, self-hosted reverse proxy for OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible AI clients, powered by native Bun and Elysia. It serves both protocols from a single server, routes every model across any configured provider, and translates requests and response
- **Maintainers:** risuncodex
- **Keywords:** ai, gateway, llm, bun, self-hosted
- **Runtime engines:** bun: \>=1.4.0
- **Artifact files:** 692
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 20,689,840 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/cartethyia/v/2.3.1>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/risunCode/Cartethyia>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/risunCode/Cartethyia#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/risunCode/Cartethyia/issues>)