registry / devez-vibe / 1.9.48
devez-vibe@1.9.48
Stable terminal UI for Codex and Claude Agent SDK
AI Security Review
scanned 11d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe postinstall hook performs automatic first-party skill installation into Codex and Claude directories, which warrants a warning under the agent extension lifecycle policy. The inspected sources do not substantiate the scanner's remote control-hijack claim or a concrete malicious attack.
Static reason
High-risk behavior combination matched malicious policy.; source matched previously finalized malicious package; routed for review
Trigger
npm package installation runs the postinstall hook.
Impact
Bundled skills become available to the user's AI agents without a separate setup command; existing files within those skill destinations may be removed during synchronization.
Mechanism
The hook runs install-skills.mjs, which selects Codex and Claude skill directories and copies bundled skill trees into them, pruning destination entries that are absent from the source.
AI rationale
The postinstall hook performs automatic first-party skill installation into Codex and Claude directories, which warrants a warning under the agent extension lifecycle policy. The inspected sources do not substantiate the scanner's remote control-hijack claim or a concrete malicious attack.
Evidence
package.jsoninstall-skills.mjs
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Suspicious at 92.0% confidence as Dangerous Capability with medium false-positive risk.
Evidence for warning
- The postinstall hook automatically runs the bundled skill installer during package installation.
- The installer targets Codex and Claude skill directories, copies bundled skills there, and prunes destination entries absent from the package copy.
- The flagged benchmark file defines ordinary public-site and bot-detection test targets.
- The launcher starts the selected executable and forwards the caller's arguments.
- The bridge exposes Claude permission updates through its request handler; the inspected setting path code does not show this bridge behavior being triggered by postinstall.
Evidence against
- The scanner-flagged benchmark is a test harness that invokes the search engine and records results; its listed targets include public sites and bot-detection test sandboxes.
- The agent setup copies package-bundled skills rather than fetching a remote skill channel.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoEnvironmentVarsFilesystem
Source & flagged code
7 flagged · loading sourcepackage.jsonView file
•scripts.postinstall = node install-skills.mjs && node prepare-search-deps.mjs
High
Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.
package.jsonView on unpkg•scripts.postinstall = node install-skills.mjs && node prepare-search-deps.mjs
Medium
Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.
package.jsonView on unpkginstall-skills.mjsView file
1import {
L2: copyFileSync,
L3: existsSync,
L4: mkdirSync,
L5: readdirSync,
L6: rmSync,
L7: writeFileSync,
L8: } from "node:fs";
...
L16: const userHome = homedir();
L17: const codexHome = process.env.CODEX_HOME?.trim() || join(userHome, ".codex");
L18: const claudeHome = process.env.CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR?.trim() || join(userHome, ".claude");
L19:
Critical
Ai Agent Control Hijack
Source creates an unconsented AI-agent control surface through install-time mutation or a default unauthenticated remote skill channel.
Findings
1 Critical3 High5 Medium4 Low
CriticalAi Agent Control Hijackinstall-skills.mjs
HighInstall Time Lifecycle Scriptspackage.json
HighPayload In Excluded Dirskills/insane-search/tests/live_benchmark/bench.py
HighKnown Malware Source Similaritybin/dvz.js
MediumAmbiguous Install Lifecycle Scriptpackage.json
MediumEnvironment Vars
MediumShips Native Binarybin/dvz.exe
MediumShips Build Helperskills/insane-search/tests/live_benchmark/bench.py
MediumStructural Risk Force Deep Review
LowScripts Present
LowFilesystem
LowHigh Entropy Strings
LowUrl Strings
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to devez-vibe@1.9.48.
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