---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/codev-ai/v/0.5.9"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/codev-ai/v/0.5.9.md"
package: "codev-ai"
report_status: "published"
title: "codev-ai@0.5.9 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.5.9"
---

# codev-ai@0.5.9 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Exfiltrates prompts, assistant output, reasoning, and tool results from local AI-agent sessions.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Data Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 0.5.9
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

After authentication, ordinary \`codevhub\`, \`codevhub claude\`, \`codex\`, \`opencode\`, and default passthrough invocations start a detached daemon. It reads local third-party agent transcripts and uploads exported content to the package-controlled analysis backend.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-09T07:08:51.703Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-09T07:09:47.980Z
- **Download time:** 520 ms
- **Static scan time:** 7252 ms
- **AI review time:** 48504 ms
- **Total time:** 56277 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** After authentication, ordinary \`codevhub\`, \`codevhub claude\`, \`codex\`, \`opencode\`, and default passthrough invocations start a detached daemon. It reads local third-party agent transcripts and uploads exported content to the package-controlled analysis backend.

- **Trigger:** Run the CLI to launch or proxy an AI coding agent after logging in.

- **Impact:** Exfiltrates prompts, assistant output, reasoning, and tool results from local AI-agent sessions.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/index.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-09T07:09:47.980Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** background conversation harvesting and remote upload

- **Attack narrative:** The CLI launches a detached \`upload --daemon\` whenever it proxies common agent commands. That daemon exports local Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and CoDev sessions, renders their messages/tool results to Markdown, then gzips and uploads them through backend-controlled presigned URLs. The help documents manual upload but not this automatic background behavior.

- **Rationale:** Direct source inspection confirms an unconsented background chain from normal agent launches to collection and upload of local conversation content. This is concrete data exfiltration, not merely an explicit user-invoked upload feature.

- **Files touched:** ~/.claude/projects/\<project\>/\*.jsonl, ~/.codex/sessions/\<year\>/\<month\>/\<day\>/\*.jsonl, ~/.codev-hub/agent-logs/\<project\>/\*\*/\*.md, ~/.codev-hub/upload.lock, ~/.codev-hub/last-upload.json

- **Network endpoints:** https://netmind.viettel.vn/codev-backend, ${supabase\_url}/rest/v1/conversations, ${supabase\_url}/functions/v1/presign-upload, ${supabase\_url}/functions/v1/confirm-upload

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** dist/index.js auto-spawns detached upload daemon on agent launches., Daemon exports Claude, Codex, and OpenCode conversation sessions., Export includes user/assistant text, thinking, and tool-result content., Markdown conversation exports are gzipped and PUT to a remote presigned URL., Auto-upload is absent from documented launch behavior; help presents upload as a separate command., Endpoint base is obfuscated with atob: https://netmind.viettel.vn.

- **Evidence against:** No npm preinstall/install/postinstall hook is declared., The explicit \`upload\` command is documented in CLI help.

## Public findings

### 1. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codev-ai@0.5.9/dist/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L39092: function wrapAnsi(string, columns, options) {
L39093: return String(string).normalize().replaceAll("\r\n", "\n").split("\n").map((line) => exec(expandTabs(line), columns, options)).join("\n");
L39094: }
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codev-ai@0.5.9/dist/index.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L49468: }
L49469: function execAsync(file, args2) {
L49470: logDebug(`exec: ${file} ${args2.join(" ")}`, {
```

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

Package source references environment variables.

### 6. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codev-ai@0.5.9/dist/index.js>)

Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L496: "use strict";
L497: "production" !== process.env.NODE_ENV && (function() {
L498: function defineDeprecationWarning(methodName, info) {
...
L635: specialPropKeyWarningShown || (specialPropKeyWarningShown = true, console.error(
L636: "%s: `key` is not a prop. Trying to access it will result in `undefined` being returned. If you need to access the same value within the child component, you should pass it as a di...
L637: displayName
...
L1486: ];
L1487: if (process.platform !== "win32") {
L1488: module2.exports.push(
...
L1634: }
L1635: process14.exitCode = code || /* istanbul ignore next */
L1636: 0;
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. Critical: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codev-ai@0.5.9/dist/index.js>)

Source executes local commands and sends command output to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L496: "use strict";
L497: "production" !== process.env.NODE_ENV && (function() {
L498: function defineDeprecationWarning(methodName, info) {
...
L635: specialPropKeyWarningShown || (specialPropKeyWarningShown = true, console.error(
L636: "%s: `key` is not a prop. Trying to access it will result in `undefined` being returned. If you need to access the same value within the child component, you should pass it as a di...
L637: displayName
...
L1486: ];
L1487: if (process.platform !== "win32") {
L1488: module2.exports.push(
...
L1634: }
L1635: process14.exitCode = code || /* istanbul ignore next */
L1636: 0;
```

### 9. High: Remote Agent Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codev-ai@0.5.9/dist/index.js>)

Source exposes local file and command tools to a remote model endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L34228: opts.filename = input;
L34229: inBuffer = filetools.fs.readFileSync(input);
L34230: } else {
...
L34990: lines.push("");
L34991: const baseUrlTag = session.baseUrl ? ` base_url=${session.baseUrl}` : "";
L34992: const subagentTag = session.subagentCharsIn || session.subagentCharsOut ? ` subagent_chars_in=${session.subagentCharsIn ?? 0} subagent_chars_out=${session.subagentCharsOut ?? 0}` :...
...
L39097: import process3 from "node:process";
L39098: import { execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
L39099: import fs from "node:fs";
```

### 10. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codev-ai@0.5.9/dist/index.js>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: scripts.start -> dist/index.js
L496: "use strict";
L497: "production" !== process.env.NODE_ENV && (function() {
L498: function defineDeprecationWarning(methodName, info) {
...
L635: specialPropKeyWarningShown || (specialPropKeyWarningShown = true, console.error(
L636: "%s: `key` is not a prop. Trying to access it will result in `undefined` being returned. If you need to access the same value within the child component, you should pass it as a di...
L637: displayName
...
L1486: ];
L1487: if (process.platform !== "win32") {
L1488: module2.exports.push(
...
L1634: }
L1635: process14.exitCode = code || /* istanbul ignore next */
L1636: 0;
```

### 11. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codev-ai@0.5.9/dist/index.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches persistence behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable persistence chain: scripts.start -> dist/index.js
L496: "use strict";
L497: "production" !== process.env.NODE_ENV && (function() {
L498: function defineDeprecationWarning(methodName, info) {
...
L635: specialPropKeyWarningShown || (specialPropKeyWarningShown = true, console.error(
L636: "%s: `key` is not a prop. Trying to access it will result in `undefined` being returned. If you need to access the same value within the child component, you should pass it as a di...
L637: displayName
...
L1486: ];
L1487: if (process.platform !== "win32") {
L1488: module2.exports.push(
...
L1634: }
L1635: process14.exitCode = code || /* istanbul ignore next */
L1636: 0;
```

### 12. High: Base64 Obscured Url
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codev-ai@0.5.9/dist/index.js>)

Source decodes a Base64-obscured HTTP endpoint at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L45719: // src/lib/const.ts
L45720: var BASE_URL = atob("[redacted]=");
L45721: var BACKEND_URL = `${BASE_URL}/codev-backend`;
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 15. 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.

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codev-ai@0.5.9/dist/index.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 = codev-ai@0.5.11
matchedPath = dist/index.js
matchedIdentity = npm:Y29kZXYtYWk:0.5.11
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 18. High: Known Malware Source Fingerprint Signature
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codev-ai@0.5.9/dist/index.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 = 1c590807f64489fa
signatureType = suspicious_hashes
sourceLabel = final_verdict:malicious
matchedPackage = codev-ai@0.5.11
matchedPath = dist/index.js
matchedIdentity = npm:Y29kZXYtYWk:0.5.11
similarity = 1.000
shingleOverlap = 1
summary = package final verdict is malicious
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepare, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 7
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 12
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 7

### Published dependency entries
- @iarna/toml ^2.2.5 (Dependency)
- adm-zip ^0.5.18 (Dependency)
- ink ^7.1.0 (Dependency)
- ink-spinner ^5.0.0 (Dependency)
- jsonc-parser ^3.3.1 (Dependency)
- open ^11.0.0 (Dependency)
- react ^19.2.7 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** codev-ai
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.5.9
- **Version published:** 2026-08-05T03:36:43.705Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T09:09:41.568Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-09T07:09:55.583Z
- **Known versions:** 14
- **Latest version:** 0.5.15
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** CoDev — AI Coding Agent Hub. Install, configure, and manage multiple AI coding agents.
- **Keywords:** ai, cli, coding-agent
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.21.0
- **Artifact files:** 3
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,489,236 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/codev-ai/v/0.5.9>)
