---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/copilot-api-node20"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/copilot-api-node20/v/0.43.2.md"
package: "copilot-api-node20"
report_status: "published"
title: "copilot-api-node20@0.43.2 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.43.2"
---

# copilot-api-node20@0.43.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 15 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Data Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 0.43.2
- **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: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Running the CLI automatically initializes telemetry exporters to a third-party Honeycomb endpoint. Request URLs and non-filtered headers are included in traces.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 88.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-29T19:11:53.802Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-29T19:14:34.339Z
- **Download time:** 776 ms
- **Static scan time:** 549 ms
- **AI review time:** 159211 ms
- **Total time:** 160537 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:** Running the CLI automatically initializes telemetry exporters to a third-party Honeycomb endpoint. Request URLs and non-filtered headers are included in traces.

- **Trigger:** Executing the copilot-api CLI.

- **Impact:** Operational request metadata may be disclosed to the telemetry recipient; credential headers are specifically filtered.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/main.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-29T19:14:34.339Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The runtime creates and starts OTLP trace, metric, and log exporters using the default Honeycomb endpoint.

- **Rationale:** The package has no install-time hook, but its active CLI sends telemetry to a third-party default endpoint. The filtering reduces risk but does not eliminate disclosure of URLs and other headers.

- **Network endpoints:** https://api.honeycomb.io

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 88.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** The CLI entrypoint is the bundled runtime., Runtime telemetry defaults to Honeycomb unless an environment override is set., The CLI starts trace, metric, and log exporters to that endpoint., Traces record full request URLs and non-filtered request headers before outbound requests.

- **Evidence against:** Authorization and cookie headers are excluded from recorded HTTP-header attributes., No install, preinstall, or postinstall lifecycle hook is declared.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to copilot-api-node20@0.43.2.

- Review the evidence and your use of copilot-api-node20@0.43.2 before allowing it. Restrict the permissions described in this report.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.

## 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/main.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/copilot-api-node20@0.43.2/dist/main.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import{defineCommand as e,runMain as t}from"citty";import o,{LogLevels as n,consola as r}from"consola";import a from"node:fs/promises";import i from"node:os";import s from"node:pat...
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/main.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/copilot-api-node20@0.43.2/dist/main.mjs>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import{defineCommand as e,runMain as t}from"citty";import o,{LogLevels as n,consola as r}from"consola";import a from"node:fs/promises";import i from"node:os";import s from"node:pat...
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/main.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/copilot-api-node20@0.43.2/dist/main.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import{defineCommand as e,runMain as t}from"citty";import o,{LogLevels as n,consola as r}from"consola";import a from"node:fs/promises";import i from"node:os";import s from"node:pat...
```

### 9. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/main.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/copilot-api-node20@0.43.2/dist/main.mjs>)

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/main.mjs:
import{defineCommand as e,runMain as t}from"citty";import o,{LogLevels as n,consola as r}from"consola";import a from"node:fs/promises";import i from"node:os";import s from"node:pat...
```

### 10. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/main.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/copilot-api-node20@0.43.2/dist/main.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import{defineCommand as e,runMain as t}from"citty";import o,{LogLevels as n,consola as r}from"consola";import a from"node:fs/promises";import i from"node:os";import s from"node:pat...
```

### 11. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/main.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/copilot-api-node20@0.43.2/dist/main.mjs>)

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/main.mjs
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import{defineCommand as e,runMain as t}from"citty";import o,{LogLevels as n,consola as r}from"consola";import a from"node:fs/promises";import i from"node:os";import s from"node:pat...
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 14. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

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

### 15. 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:** prepare
- **Dependencies:** 19
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 19
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 19

### Published dependency entries
- @opentelemetry/api ^1.9.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/api-logs ^0.222.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/exporter-logs-otlp-http ^0.222.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/exporter-metrics-otlp-http ^0.222.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-http ^0.222.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/resources ^2.6.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/sdk-logs ^0.222.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/sdk-metrics ^2.6.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/sdk-node ^0.222.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/semantic-conventions ^1.40.0 (Dependency)
- ai-tokenizer ^1.0.6 (Dependency)
- citty ^0.2.2 (Dependency)
- clipboardy ^5.3.1 (Dependency)
- consola ^3.4.2 (Dependency)
- fetch-event-stream ^0.1.5 (Dependency)
- hono ^4.12.7 (Dependency)
- selfsigned ^5.5.0 (Dependency)
- srvx ^1.0.5 (Dependency)
- undici ^7.24.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** copilot-api-node20
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.43.2
- **Version published:** 2026-09-29T18:04:57.625Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-02T23:37:26.930Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-29T19:14:34.339Z
- **Known versions:** 11
- **Latest version:** 0.43.3
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Turn GitHub Copilot into OpenAI/Anthropic API compatible server. Usable with Claude Code! (Node v20+ fork)
- **Author:** Erick Christian
- **Maintainers:** johnib
- **Keywords:** proxy, github-copilot, openai-compatible, anthropic-compatible, claude-code, claude-cowork, codex-cli, node20, fork
- **Artifact files:** 4
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 202,924 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/copilot-api-node20/v/0.43.2>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/johnib/copilot-api>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/johnib/copilot-api-issues>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/johnib/copilot-api-issues/issues>)
