---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/cbs-4px-merchant-cli/v/0.0.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/cbs-4px-merchant-cli/v/0.0.2.md"
package: "cbs-4px-merchant-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "cbs-4px-merchant-cli@0.0.2 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.0.2"
---

# cbs-4px-merchant-cli@0.0.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. Persistent instruction injection across installed AI coding tools.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Warn by default
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Soft block: AI-agent control surface
- **Selected version:** 0.0.2
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

LPM flags this version as an AI-agent control-surface risk. Install-time code mutates detected third-party AI-agent skill directories. This broad, unconsented control-surface write can cause multiple agents to load package-supplied instructions.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 98.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-08T13:14:55.676Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-08T13:15:39.709Z
- **Download time:** 257 ms
- **Static scan time:** 333 ms
- **AI review time:** 43442 ms
- **Total time:** 44033 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Install-time code mutates detected third-party AI-agent skill directories. This broad, unconsented control-surface write can cause multiple agents to load package-supplied instructions.

- **Trigger:** npm install

- **Impact:** Persistent instruction injection across installed AI coding tools.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.js, skill/SKILL.md, site-meta.json

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-08T13:15:39.709Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** postinstall copies a skill into foreign AI-agent directories

- **Attack narrative:** On npm install, the postinstall script enumerates ten AI coding-tool configuration roots and, whenever one exists, creates a package-controlled skill directory and copies instructions into it. This occurs without an explicit user setup command and affects unrelated agent products, creating persistent cross-tool control-surface modification.

- **Rationale:** The package has a concrete install-time, unconsented mutation of broad foreign AI-agent control surfaces. Although no credential exfiltration or remote payload was found, this behavior meets the blocking policy directly.

- **Files touched:** scripts/postinstall.js, skill/SKILL.md, skill/reference/, ~/.claude/skills/cbs-4px-merchant-cli/, ~/.codex/skills/cbs-4px-merchant-cli/, ~/.cursor/skills/cbs-4px-merchant-cli/

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 98.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** package.json runs scripts/postinstall.js on every npm install., scripts/postinstall.js detects and writes into ten AI-tool roots, including ~/.claude, ~/.codex, ~/.cursor, and ~/.cline., It copies skill/SKILL.md and reference/ plus .skill-version into each detected tool's skills directory without user consent.

- **Evidence against:** Copied SKILL.md documents the package CLI; no hidden payload or remote skill download found., Postinstall only checks whether an API key exists and does not transmit it., Runtime API calls target the declared 4px merchant service and use user-configured credentials.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cbs-4px-merchant-cli@0.0.2/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/cbs-4px-merchant-cli@0.0.2/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: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 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. High: Entrypoint Build Divergence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cbs-4px-merchant-cli@0.0.2/scripts/postinstall.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest entrypoint (scripts.postinstall) carries capability families absent from dist/build output: environment+network, execution+network
L25: import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
L26: import { execSync } from 'child_process';
L27: 
L28: const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
L29: const skillSource = join(__dirname, '..', 'skill', 'SKILL.md');
...
L41: env: 'prod',
L42: baseUrl: 'https://b.4px.com',
L43: akUrl: 'https://b.4px.com/site/ak-manage',
...
L48: const metaPath = join(__dirname, '..', 'site-meta.json');
L49: const parsed = JSON.parse(readFileSync(metaPath, 'utf-8'));
L50: return { ...defaults, ...parsed };
...
L114: // Write version marker for drift detection at CLI runtime
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 9. Critical: Ai Agent Control Hijack
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cbs-4px-merchant-cli@0.0.2/scripts/postinstall.js>)

Source creates an unconsented AI-agent control surface through install-time mutation or a default unauthenticated remote skill channel.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L13: existsSync,
L14: mkdirSync,
L15: copyFileSync,
L16: cpSync,
L17: openSync,
L18: writeSync,
L19: writeFileSync,
L20: closeSync,
...
L65: { root: join(home, '.qoder'), label: 'Qoder' },
L66: { root: join(home, '.claude'), label: 'Claude Code' },
L67: { root: join(home, '.cline'), label: 'Cline' },
...
L70: { root: join(home, '.qoderwork'), label: 'QoderWork' },
```

### 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: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 4
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 3
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 4

### Published dependency entries
- axios ^1.7.0 (Dependency)
- chalk ^5.3.0 (Dependency)
- commander ^12.0.0 (Dependency)
- ora ^9.4.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** cbs-4px-merchant-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.0.2
- **Version published:** 2026-08-07T05:10:25.366Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-08T13:15:39.709Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-09T15:43:09.751Z
- **Known versions:** 5
- **Latest version:** 0.0.6
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Cbs merchant CLI tool
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 105
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 573,491 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/cbs-4px-merchant-cli/v/0.0.2>)