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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/carvus-lens"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/carvus-lens/report.md"
package: "carvus-lens"
report_status: "published"
title: "carvus-lens@1.0.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.1"
---

# carvus-lens@1.0.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-4505 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Trusted malware advisory block
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 1.0.1
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-4505 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-4505 confirms this npm version as malicious. carvus-lens is a screen-capture/OCR Electron-style tool whose advertised 'Ask AI', 'Translate', and 'Search' features silently route user-selected screen content to two third-party services chosen by the author, not the user. render.js line 4 hardcodes \`GROQ\_API\_KEY = "gsk\_Au9udiy007IGKi38EuUxWGdyb3FYGwABZgWJUUzNG2hDbiFVYJSy"\` and the queryGroq function POSTs OCR'd text to...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Finished:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Download time:** Not available
- **Static scan time:** Not available
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** Not available

The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs.

## Security analysis

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

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to carvus-lens@1.0.1.

- Avoid installing carvus-lens@1.0.1. 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: Osv Malicious Advisory
- **Category:** External Intel
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

carvus-lens is a screen-capture/OCR Electron-style tool whose advertised 'Ask AI', 'Translate', and 'Search' features silently route user-selected screen content to two third-party services chosen by the author, not the user. render.js line 4 hardcodes \`GROQ\_API\_KEY = "gsk\_Au9udiy007IGKi38EuUxWGdyb3FYGwABZgWJUUzNG2hDbiFVYJSy"\` and the queryGroq function POSTs OCR'd text to \`https://api.groq.com/openai/v1/chat/completions\` with \`Authorization: Bearer ${GROQ\_API\_KEY}\`, so every user's selected screen text flows into Groq under the author's account. render.js line 5 hardcodes \`IMG\_HOST\_KEY = "6d207e02198a847aa98d0a2a901485a5"\` and uploadImage POSTs cropped screenshots to \`https://freeimage.host/api/1/upload?key=${IMG\_HOST\_KEY}\` — screenshots may contain messages, documents, code, or banking content, are stored under the author's freeimage.host account, and are made publicly accessible (the resulting URL is then handed to lens.google.com). README does not disclose either intermediary. Two compounding issues: (1) silent-relay — normal use of the advertised API exfiltrates user screen content to author-chosen destinations the user never selected; (2) credential redistribution — both API keys are extractable from the shipped client code and can be abused by any installer to bill Groq usage against the author or upload arbitrary content to the author's freeimage.host account.

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

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** carvus-lens
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.1
- **Version published:** Not available
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 1.0.1
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/carvus-lens>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-4505>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/carvus-lens/v/1.0.1>)