---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/codex-mobile-re/v/0.1.96"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/codex-mobile-re/v/0.1.96.md"
package: "codex-mobile-re"
report_status: "published"
title: "codex-mobile-re@0.1.96 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.1.96"
---

# codex-mobile-re@0.1.96 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as AI-agent capability risk** — Allowed by default with warning: agent-facing configuration or capability changes need review before use.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only AI-agent capability risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** AI-agent capability abuse
- **Selected version:** 0.1.96
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Review flagged AI-agent configuration or capability changes. This remains warn-only unless evidence shows foreign-agent hijack through preinstall/install/postinstall, hidden persistence, exfiltration, remote code execution, or other concrete malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-17T22:06:32.200Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-17T22:07:36.017Z
- **Download time:** 254 ms
- **Static scan time:** 4875 ms
- **AI review time:** 58687 ms
- **Total time:** 63817 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** User-invoked CLI exposes a network web UI controlling a Codex app-server with permissive defaults. It can proxy model requests to selected third-party providers.

- **Trigger:** User runs the codex-mobile-re CLI.

- **Impact:** A reachable or tunneled authenticated UI can invoke an agent configured for unrestricted local actions; submitted requests are forwarded to configured providers.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/fix-pty-native-build.cjs, dist-cli/index.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-17T22:07:36.017Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** network-exposed unrestricted Codex agent bridge and model proxy

- **Rationale:** The package contains a concrete dangerous remote-agent capability, so it warrants a warning. Its install hook is limited to optional native PTY repair and no malicious persistence or covert exfiltration chain was confirmed.

- **Files touched:** dist-cli/index.js, .codex/auth.json, .codex/codexui-password

- **Network endpoints:** https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/responses, https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions, https://opencode.ai/zen/v1/responses, https://opencode.ai/zen/v1/chat/completions

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

- **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** Defaults the spawned Codex app-server to danger-full-access with approvalPolicy never., Runtime CLI binds its web server to 0.0.0.0 and can start a cloudflared tunnel., Proxy forwards submitted model request payloads to OpenRouter/OpenCode endpoints.

- **Evidence against:** postinstall only repairs a broken optional node-pty build; no AI-agent config mutation., No fixed package-owned credential collection or exfiltration endpoint was found., Tunnel download/install requires an interactive user confirmation.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codex-mobile-re@0.1.96/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/fix-pty-native-build.cjs
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. High: High Secret
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/assets/DirectoryHub-DRCFOJD-.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codex-mobile-re@0.1.96/dist/assets/DirectoryHub-DRCFOJD-.js>)

Package contains a high-severity secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 2
matchedText = import{d...lt};
```

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/assets/common-BeuopZEI.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codex-mobile-re@0.1.96/dist/assets/common-BeuopZEI.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: function ur(r){return r&&r.__esModule&&Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(r,"default")?r.default:r}var fn,lt;function gr(){if(lt)return fn;lt=1;function r(n){return n instanceof ...
L2: https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/issues/2277`),te=u,q=A),P===void 0&&(P=!0);const fe={code:q,language:te};Je("before:highlight",fe);const Re=fe.result?fe.result:ze(fe.la...
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist-cli/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codex-mobile-re@0.1.96/dist-cli/index.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L50: return {
L51: command: "cmd.exe",
L52: args: ["/d", "/s", "/c", [quoteCmdExeArg(command), ...args.map((arg) => quoteCmdExeArg(arg))].join(" ")]
```

### 6. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist-cli/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codex-mobile-re@0.1.96/dist-cli/index.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: // src/cli/index.ts
L4: import { createServer as createServer2 } from "http";
L5: import { chmodSync as chmodSync2, createWriteStream, existsSync as existsSync8, mkdirSync as mkdirSync2 } from "fs";
...
L8: import { isAbsolute as isAbsolute4, join as join12, resolve as resolve3 } from "path";
L9: import { spawn as spawn5 } from "child_process";
L10: import { createInterface as createInterface2 } from "readline/promises";
...
L34: function needsCmdExeWrapper(command) {
L35: if (process.platform !== "win32") {
L36: return false;
...
L50: return {
L51: command: "cmd.exe",
L52: args: ["/d", "/s", "/c", [quoteCmdExeArg(command), ...args.map((arg) => quoteCmdExeArg(arg))].join(" ")]
```

### 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:** dist-cli/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codex-mobile-re@0.1.96/dist-cli/index.js>)

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, sensitive-file+network, execution+network
L3: // src/cli/index.ts
L4: import { createServer as createServer2 } from "http";
L5: import { chmodSync as chmodSync2, createWriteStream, existsSync as existsSync8, mkdirSync as mkdirSync2 } from "fs";
...
L8: import { isAbsolute as isAbsolute4, join as join12, resolve as resolve3 } from "path";
L9: import { spawn as spawn5 } from "child_process";
L10: import { createInterface as createInterface2 } from "readline/promises";
...
L34: function needsCmdExeWrapper(command) {
L35: if (process.platform !== "win32") {
L36: return false;
...
L50: return {
L51: command: "cmd.exe",
L52: args: ["/d", "/s", "/c", [quoteCmdExeArg(command), ...args
```

### 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:** dist-cli/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codex-mobile-re@0.1.96/dist-cli/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1293: }
L1294: const proc = spawn("codex", ["login"], {
L1295: env: process.env,
L1296: stdio: ["pipe", "pipe", "pipe"]
...
L1305: exitSignal: null,
L1306: exitPromise: new Promise((resolve4) => {
L1307: proc.once("exit", (code, signal) => {
```

### 12. Critical: Hardcoded Runtime Data Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist-cli/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codex-mobile-re@0.1.96/dist-cli/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Source sends the broad process environment to a literal external destination.
L3: // src/cli/index.ts
L4: import { createServer as createServer2 } from "http";
L5: import { chmodSync as chmodSync2, createWriteStream, existsSync as existsSync8, mkdirSync as mkdirSync2 } from "fs";
...
L8: import { isAbsolute as isAbsolute4, join as join12, resolve as resolve3 } from "path";
L9: import { spawn as spawn5 } from "child_process";
L10: import { createInterface as createInterface2 } from "readline/promises";
...
L34: function needsCmdExeWrapper(command) {
L35: if (process.platform !== "win32") {
L36: return false;
...
L50: return {
L51: command: "cmd.exe",
L52: args: ["/d", "/s", "/c", [quoteCmdExeArg(command), ...args.map((arg) => quoteCmdExeArg(arg))].join(" ")]
```

### 13. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist-cli/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codex-mobile-re@0.1.96/dist-cli/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-cli/index.js:
import { readFile as readFile5, stat as stat8, writeFile as writeFile6 } from "fs/promises";
import { createInterface as createInterface2 } from "readline/promises";
const explicit = process.env.CODEXUI_CODEX_COMMAND?.trim();
const explicit = process.env.CODEXUI_RG_COMMAND?.trim();
const candidate = normalizeRuntimeValue(process.env.CODEXUI_SANDBOX_MODE);
const candidate = normalizeRuntimeValue(process.env.CODEXUI_APPROVAL_POLICY);
const codexHome = process.env.CODEX_HOME?.trim() ?? "";
return codexHome && codexHome.length > 0 ? codexHome : join2(homedir2(), ".codex");
```

### 14. High: Entrypoint Foreign Package Code Overwrite
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist-cli/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codex-mobile-re@0.1.96/dist-cli/index.js>)

Manifest-reachable source overwrites another installed package with package-defined remote behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source resolves another installed package, overwrites its runtime code, and injects package-defined remote behavior.
dist-cli/index.js:
import { readFile as readFile5, stat as stat8, writeFile as writeFile6 } from "fs/promises";
const dirs = [join(prefix, "node_modules", "@openai", "codex")];
dirs.push(join(prefix, "lib", "node_modules", "@openai", "codex"));
join(packageDir, "node_modules", "@openai", "codex-win32-x64", "vendor", "x86_64-pc-windows-msvc", "codex", "codex.exe"),
"node_modules",
"node_modules\\@openai\\codex-win32-x64\\vendor\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\codex\\codex.exe"
const match = shimContent.match(/([^"'\r\n]*node_modules[\\/]@openai[\\/]codex)/i);
const markerPath = "node_modules\\@openai\\codex";
```

### 15. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist-cli/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codex-mobile-re@0.1.96/dist-cli/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1293: }
L1294: const proc = spawn("codex", ["login"], {
L1295: env: process.env,
...
L1297: });
L1298: proc.stdin.end();
L1299: activeLogin = {
...
L1303: exited: false,
L1304: exitCode: null,
L1305: exitSignal: null,
L1306: exitPromise: new Promise((resolve4) => {
L1307: proc.once("exit", (code, signal) => {
```

### 16. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** scripts/dev.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codex-mobile-re@0.1.96/scripts/dev.cjs>)

Source spawns a local helper that also contains network and dynamic execution context; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Cross-file remote execution chain: scripts/dev.cjs spawns dist-cli/index.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L1: const { execFileSync, spawnSync } = require('node:child_process')
L2: const { existsSync } = require('node:fs')
...
L5: function isAndroidRuntime() {
L6: if (process.platform === 'android') return true
L7: if (process.env.TERMUX_VERSION) return true
L8: if (process.env.PREFIX?.includes('/com.termux/')) return true
...
L40: const passthroughArgs = process.argv.slice(2)
L41: const viteBinPath = join(process.cwd(), 'node_modules', '.bin', process.platform === 'win32' ? 'vite.cmd' : 'vite')
L42: const vueTscBinPath = join(process.cwd(), 'node_modules', '.bin', process.platform === 'win32' ? 'vue-tsc.cmd' : 'vue-tsc')
```

### 17. High: Spawned Bundled Service Listener
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 78.0%
- **Path:** dist-cli/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codex-mobile-re@0.1.96/dist-cli/index.js>)

Source launches a detached bundled service that exposes a broad-bound HTTP listener.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Detached bundled service listener: dist-cli/index.js launches a Node helper and exposes a broad-bound HTTP listener.
L3: // src/cli/index.ts
L4: import { createServer as createServer2 } from "http";
L5: import { chmodSync as chmodSync2, createWriteStream, existsSync as existsSync8, mkdirSync as mkdirSync2 } from "fs";
...
L8: import { isAbsolute as isAbsolute4, join as join12, resolve as resolve3 } from "path";
L9: import { spawn as spawn5 } from "child_process";
L10: import { createInterface as createInterface2 } from "readline/promises";
...
L34: function needsCmdExeWrapper(command) {
L35: if (process.platform !== "win32") {
L36: return false;
...
L50: return {
L51: command: "cmd.exe",
L52: args: ["/d", "/s", "/c", [quoteCmdExeArg(command), ...args.map((arg) => quoteCmdExeArg(arg))].join
```

### 18. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist-cli/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codex-mobile-re@0.1.96/dist-cli/index.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches command-output exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable command-output exfiltration chain: manifest.bin -> dist-cli/index.js
L1293: }
L1294: const proc = spawn("codex", ["login"], {
L1295: env: process.env,
...
L1297: });
L1298: proc.stdin.end();
L1299: activeLogin = {
...
L1303: exited: false,
L1304: exitCode: null,
L1305: exitSignal: null,
L1306: exitPromise: new Promise((resolve4) => {
L1307: proc.once("exit", (code, signal) => {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 21. 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.

### 22. High: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/assets/DirectoryHub-DRCFOJD-.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codex-mobile-re@0.1.96/dist/assets/DirectoryHub-DRCFOJD-.js>)

Google API key in dist/assets/DirectoryHub-DRCFOJD-.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 2
matchedText = import{d...lt};
```

### 23. Medium: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist-cli/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codex-mobile-re@0.1.96/dist-cli/index.js>)

Hardcoded password in dist-cli/index.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = generic_password
severity = medium
line = 15394
matchedText = const pr...th);
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 9
- **Optional dependencies:** 1
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 16
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 10

### Published dependency entries
- @composio/client 0.1.0-alpha.66 (Dependency)
- @xterm/addon-fit ^0.11.0 (Dependency)
- @xterm/xterm ^6.0.0 (Dependency)
- commander ^13.1.0 (Dependency)
- express ^5.1.0 (Dependency)
- firebase ^12.2.1 (Dependency)
- highlight.js ^11.11.1 (Dependency)
- qrcode-terminal ^0.12.0 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.18.3 (Dependency)
- node-pty ^1.1.0 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** codex-mobile-re
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.1.96
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-17T21:58:37.788Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-10T16:13:53.818Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-17T23:49:01.418Z
- **Known versions:** 7
- **Latest version:** 0.1.97
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Mobile-first web interface and gateway for Codex app-server (fork rebuild of codexapp)
- **Author:** Pavel Voronin, Igor Levochkin
- **Maintainers:** lgao7779
- **Keywords:** codex, openai, web-ui, remote, cli
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 35
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 4,639,077 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/codex-mobile-re/v/0.1.96>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/cattails-lgao/codex-mobile>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/cattails-lgao/codex-mobile#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/cattails-lgao/codex-mobile/issues>)
