create-chemx@26.9.9-786
Chemical X Protocol: Private drop-in architecture starter kit and capsule generator
AI Security Review
scanned 11d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe CLI conditionally forwards a license key to an unrestricted environment-configured endpoint, which warrants a warning for credential exposure. The behavior requires user invocation and does not establish a publish-blocking attack.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.
Trigger
A user invokes the scaffolding command with a cached, supplied, or interactively entered license key.
Impact
A caller who configures an unrelated endpoint can expose the license key to it. The source does not establish covert theft or malicious intent.
Mechanism
The CLI posts the key and device identifier to the configured API base; the destination is not restricted in source.
AI rationale
The CLI conditionally forwards a license key to an unrestricted environment-configured endpoint, which warrants a warning for credential exposure. The behavior requires user invocation and does not establish a publish-blocking attack.
Evidence
cli/index.js
Network endpoints1
chemicalx.xophz.com
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Suspicious at 94.0% confidence as Dangerous Capability with medium false-positive risk.
Evidence for warning
- The CLI accepts a caller-supplied license key or retrieves a cached key.
- The CLI lets CHEMICAL_X_API_URL select the license verification destination without a destination allowlist.
- When scaffolding is invoked, the CLI posts the license key to that selected destination.
Evidence against
- The manifest exposes this behavior through user-invoked CLI commands and declares no install lifecycle hook.
- The default verification endpoint is the package's Chemical X service.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShell
HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings
NoLicense
Source & flagged code
5 flagged · loading sourcecli/index.jsView file
6import readline from "node:readline";
L7: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L8: import { runAudit as executeAstAudit, auditFile } from "./audit.js";
High
34else if (platform === "win32")
L35: spawnSync("cmd.exe", ["/c", "start", '""', url], { stdio: "ignore" });
L36: else spawnSync("xdg-open", [url], { stdio: "ignore" });
High
6import readline from "node:readline";
L7: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L8: import { runAudit as executeAstAudit, auditFile } from "./audit.js";
...
L18:
L19: const API_BASE = process.env.CHEMICAL_X_API_URL || "https://chemicalx.xophz.com";
L20: const URL_LEARN = "https://chemicalx.xophz.com";
High
Same File Env Network Execution
A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.
cli/index.jsView on unpkg · L6Findings
5 High3 Medium5 Low
HighChild Processcli/index.js
HighShellcli/index.js
HighSame File Env Network Executioncli/index.js
HighSandbox Evasion Gated Capabilitycli/index.js
HighTrigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutationcli/index.js
MediumNetwork
MediumEnvironment Vars
MediumStructural Risk Force Deep Review
LowScripts Present
LowFilesystem
LowHigh Entropy Strings
LowUrl Strings
LowNo License
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to create-chemx@26.9.9-786.
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