---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/dsh-harmonyos/v/0.3.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/dsh-harmonyos/v/0.3.0.md"
package: "dsh-harmonyos"
report_status: "published"
title: "dsh-harmonyos@0.3.0 npm security report"
verdict: "policy_finding"
version: "0.3.0"
---

# dsh-harmonyos@0.3.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. A local user or process able to reach the loopback service can receive an authenticated session cookie; installed agent security behavior and dependencies are altered without an explicit setup command.

- **Verdict:** AI-agent control-surface policy finding
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn by default; block when configured
- **Firewall policy:** Warn by default
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Soft block: AI-agent control surface
- **Selected version:** 0.3.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

This finding concerns changes to an AI agent's instructions or configuration without explicit user action. It does not by itself establish malware intent. The CLI warns by default and blocks when configured for this policy.

AI assessment: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

LPM flags this version as an AI-agent control-surface risk. Installation automatically modifies several foreign DeepSeek agent packages and weakens local web authentication. It also removes installed sandbox packages recursively.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 98.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-08T13:19:19.136Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-08T13:20:29.297Z
- **Download time:** 255 ms
- **Static scan time:** 226 ms
- **AI review time:** 69679 ms
- **Total time:** 70161 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:** Installation automatically modifies several foreign DeepSeek agent packages and weakens local web authentication. It also removes installed sandbox packages recursively.

- **Trigger:** npm installation runs the postinstall hook.

- **Impact:** A local user or process able to reach the loopback service can receive an authenticated session cookie; installed agent security behavior and dependencies are altered without an explicit setup command.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, lib/patch.mjs, lib/prune.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-08T13:20:29.297Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Postinstall patches foreign agent code, bypasses loopback token authentication, and prunes dependencies.

- **Attack narrative:** On install, the package runs its patcher against all discovered DeepSeek package instances. The patcher replaces a credential ownership check with an unconditional return and rewrites the agent web authentication flow so loopback requests can mint long-lived session cookies without a token. The same lifecycle chain recursively deletes sandbox-related dependencies. These are unconsented mutations of a foreign AI-agent control surface, not merely a user-invoked compatibility launcher.

- **Rationale:** The postinstall hook automatically weakens authentication and credential protection in foreign AI-agent packages while removing sandbox dependencies. This meets the policy for malicious install-time AI-agent control-surface mutation.

- **Files touched:** node\_modules/@deepseek-ai/dsh-credentials-local/lib/index.js, node\_modules/@deepseek-ai/dsh-client-connection/lib/index.js, node\_modules/@deepseek-ai/dsh-permission-presets/lib/index.js, node\_modules/@deepseek-ai/dsh-sandbox-local, node\_modules/@deepseek-ai/dsh-bash-sandbox, node\_modules/@deepseek-ai/dsh-pwsh-sandbox

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 98.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for policy risk:** The automatic postinstall runs patching and pruning code., The patch disables a credential ownership check in a foreign DeepSeek package., The patch changes the agent web service to mint a 30-day cookie for unauthenticated loopback requests., The installer recursively deletes installed sandbox-related dependencies.

- **Evidence against:** No source code sends harvested credentials to an unrelated remote host., The modified web access path is limited to loopback authorities.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to dsh-harmonyos@0.3.0.

- Avoid installing dsh-harmonyos@0.3.0. 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/dsh-harmonyos@0.3.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node ./lib/patch.mjs patch && node ./lib/prune.mjs
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/dsh-harmonyos@0.3.0/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node ./lib/patch.mjs patch && node ./lib/prune.mjs
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/dsh-ohos.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/dsh-harmonyos@0.3.0/bin/dsh-ohos.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L10: //   NODE_OHOS=/path/node dsh-ohos   # 指定 node
L11: import { spawn, spawnSync, execFileSync } from 'node:child_process';
L12: import { existsSync, readFileSync, readdirSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package source references shell execution.

### 6. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 7. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 8. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/dsh-ohos.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/dsh-harmonyos@0.3.0/bin/dsh-ohos.js>)

Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L10: //   NODE_OHOS=/path/node dsh-ohos   # 指定 node
L11: import { spawn, spawnSync, execFileSync } from 'node:child_process';
L12: import { existsSync, readFileSync, readdirSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
...
L22: function pickNode() {
L23: const nodeBin = process.env.NODE_OHOS;
L24: if (!nodeBin) {
L25: console.error('dsh-ohos: 未配置 NODE_OHOS 环境变量。');
L26: console.error('  dsh 需要 node >= 22.16(带原生 zstd), 推荐 node26。请在 ~/.zshrc 配置:');
L27: console.error("    export NODE_OHOS=\"$HOME/.harmonybrew/opt/node/bin/node\"");
...
L43: function installedDshVersion() {
L44: try { return JSON.parse(readFileSync(join(NM, '@deepseek-ai', 'dsh', 'package.json'), 'utf8')).version || ''; }
L45: catch { return ''; }
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 10. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** scripts/smoke.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/dsh-harmonyos@0.3.0/scripts/smoke.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: //       → 带 cookie GET / 期待 200 → 杀进程。全链路通过 exit 0, 否则 exit 1(打印日志尾部)。
L5: import { spawn } from 'node:child_process';
L6: import { createServer } from 'node:net';
L7: import { join, dirname } from 'node:path';
...
L12: 
L13: if (!process.env.NODE_OHOS) {
L14: console.error('smoke: 未配置 NODE_OHOS(见 README 环境要求)');
```

### 11. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** bin/dsh-ohos.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/dsh-harmonyos@0.3.0/bin/dsh-ohos.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches persistence behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable persistence chain: manifest.bin -> bin/dsh-ohos.js
L10: //   NODE_OHOS=/path/node dsh-ohos   # 指定 node
L11: import { spawn, spawnSync, execFileSync } from 'node:child_process';
L12: import { existsSync, readFileSync, readdirSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
...
L22: function pickNode() {
L23: const nodeBin = process.env.NODE_OHOS;
L24: if (!nodeBin) {
L25: console.error('dsh-ohos: 未配置 NODE_OHOS 环境变量。');
L26: console.error('  dsh 需要 node >= 22.16(带原生 zstd), 推荐 node26。请在 ~/.zshrc 配置:');
L27: console.error("    export NODE_OHOS=\"$HOME/.harmonybrew/opt/node/bin/node\"");
...
L43: function installedDshVersion() {
L44: try { return JSON.parse(readFileSync(join(NM, '@deepseek-ai', 'dsh', 'package.json'), 'utf8')).version || ''; }
L45: catch { return ''; }
```

### 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:** 70.0%

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

### 15. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** lib/patch.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/dsh-harmonyos@0.3.0/lib/patch.mjs%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 1
```

### 16. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** lib/patch.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/dsh-harmonyos@0.3.0/lib/patch.mjs>)

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 = dsh-harmonyos@0.2.2
matchedPath = lib/patch.mjs
matchedIdentity = npm:ZHNoLWhhcm1vbnlvcw:0.2.2
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** scripts/smoke.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/dsh-harmonyos@0.3.0/scripts/smoke.mjs>)

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 = dsh-harmonyos@0.2.2
matchedPath = scripts/smoke.mjs
matchedIdentity = npm:ZHNoLWhhcm1vbnlvcw:0.2.2
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 4
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 4

### Published dependency entries
- @deepseek-ai/dsh 0.1.3-alpha.2 (Dependency)
- @deepseek-ai/dsh-host-directory-picker-auto ^0.1.3-alpha.2 (Dependency)
- @img/sharp-linuxmusl-arm64 ^0.35.4 (Dependency)
- zstd-codec ^0.1.5 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** dsh-harmonyos
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.3.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-08T13:16:14.809Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-07T19:30:44.685Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-01T14:34:40.759Z
- **Known versions:** 23
- **Latest version:** 0.13.2
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** DeepSeek Harness for HarmonyOS — 一条命令装好:JS-only 替代/裁剪 profile、鸿蒙文件系统补丁、compat loader(zstd/fs-ext/sharp shim)、自启脚本(优先原生 zstd 的 node)。装完跑 dsh-ohos 即可。
- **Keywords:** dsh, deepseek-harness, harmonyos, ohos, agent
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.16.0
- **Artifact files:** 16
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 67,396 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/dsh-harmonyos/v/0.3.0>)