---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/codev-ai/v/0.6.3"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/codev-ai/v/0.6.3.md"
package: "codev-ai"
report_status: "published"
title: "codev-ai@0.6.3 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.6.3"
---

# codev-ai@0.6.3 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Private prompts, agent responses, and project-related conversation content can be sent to the package operator without a per-upload confirmation.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Data Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 0.6.3
- **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: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

When a logged-in user invokes an agent wrapper, the package starts a detached process that exports local AI conversation logs and uploads them. It also routes configured AI-agent credentials through its external gateway.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 98.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-10T04:15:04.545Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-10T04:16:34.681Z
- **Download time:** 503 ms
- **Static scan time:** 10612 ms
- **AI review time:** 79018 ms
- **Total time:** 90136 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:** When a logged-in user invokes an agent wrapper, the package starts a detached process that exports local AI conversation logs and uploads them. It also routes configured AI-agent credentials through its external gateway.

- **Trigger:** Run codevhub codex, claude, opencode, codev, or a default forwarded command after authentication.

- **Impact:** Private prompts, agent responses, and project-related conversation content can be sent to the package operator without a per-upload confirmation.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/index.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-10T04:16:34.681Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Background export and remote upload of local conversation files.

- **Attack narrative:** The command dispatcher launches a detached upload daemon whenever an agent wrapper is run. The daemon exports local conversations, finds generated markdown logs, reads and gzip-compresses each file, then uploads it to a remotely provided signed URL. Authentication suppresses the only gate for this automatic collection; the package also persists its gateway and API key into agent configuration.

- **Rationale:** This is concrete automatic data exfiltration triggered by ordinary agent use, not merely an explicit upload command. The lack of an install lifecycle hook does not mitigate the detached runtime upload path.

- **Files touched:** ~/.codev-hub/agent-logs, ~/.codev-hub/auth.json, ~/.codex/config.toml

- **Network endpoints:** https://netmind.viettel.vn/codev-backend

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 98.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for block:** The CLI obscures a fixed external service host with base64., Running the codex wrapper automatically starts a detached upload daemon., The daemon exports local AI conversations and uploads their compressed contents after login., The upload uses a remote signed URL and sends the full local file payload., The wrapper rewrites Codex provider settings with its gateway URL and API key.

- **Evidence against:** The manifest has no registry install, preinstall, or postinstall hook; its prepare script runs Husky., The configuration and agent-launch behavior requires an explicit CLI command.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to codev-ai@0.6.3.

- Avoid installing codev-ai@0.6.3. 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. 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@0.6.3/dist/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L39865: function wrapAnsi(string, columns, options) {
L39866: return String(string).normalize().replaceAll("\r\n", "\n").split("\n").map((line) => exec(expandTabs(line), columns, options)).join("\n");
L39867: }
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codev-ai@0.6.3/dist/index.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L50458: }
L50459: function powershellSnippet(agents) {
L50460: const dir = "$HOME\\.codev-hub\\bin";
```

### 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@0.6.3/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. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codev-ai@0.6.3/dist/index.js>)

Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration.
dist/index.js:
delete opts.headers.authorization;
if (opts.auth && !options.headers.authorization) {
options.headers.authorization = "Basic " + Buffer.from(opts.auth).toString("base64");
Utils.prototype.writeFileTo = function(path, content, overwrite, attr) {
Utils.prototype.writeFileToAsync = function(path, content, overwrite, attr, callback) {
filetools.writeFileTo(childName, content2, overwrite, fileAttr2);
filetools.writeFileTo(target, content, overwrite, fileAttr);
filetools.writeFileTo(entryName, content, overwrite, fileAttr);
```

### 9. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codev-ai@0.6.3/dist/index.js>)

Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

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;
```

### 10. High: Remote Agent Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codev-ai@0.6.3/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L35001: opts.filename = input;
L35002: inBuffer = filetools.fs.readFileSync(input);
L35003: } else {
...
L35763: lines.push("");
L35764: const baseUrlTag = session.baseUrl ? ` base_url=${session.baseUrl}` : "";
L35765: const subagentTag = session.subagentCharsIn || session.subagentCharsOut ? ` subagent_chars_in=${session.subagentCharsIn ?? 0} subagent_chars_out=${session.subagentCharsOut ?? 0}` :...
...
L39870: import process3 from "node:process";
L39871: import { execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
L39872: import fs from "node:fs";
```

### 11. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codev-ai@0.6.3/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@0.6.3/dist/index.js>)

Source decodes a Base64-obscured HTTP endpoint at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L46493: // src/lib/const.ts
L46494: var BASE_URL = atob("[redacted]=");
L46495: var BACKEND_URL = process.env.CODEV_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@0.6.3/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@0.5.18
matchedPath = dist/index.js
matchedIdentity = npm:Y29kZXYtYWk:0.5.18
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@0.6.3/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@0.5.18
matchedPath = dist/index.js
matchedIdentity = npm:Y29kZXYtYWk:0.5.18
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:** 8
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 12
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 8

### 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)
- safe-regex2 ^5.1.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** codev-ai
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.6.3
- **Version published:** 2026-09-10T04:05:01.979Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T09:09:41.568Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-10T12:48:50.824Z
- **Known versions:** 18
- **Latest version:** 0.6.4
- **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:** 2,643,240 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/codev-ai/v/0.6.3>)