---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/dsh-win32/v/0.16.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/dsh-win32/v/0.16.2.md"
package: "dsh-win32"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "dsh-win32@0.16.2 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.16.2"
---

# dsh-win32@0.16.2 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:** Under Review
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.16.2
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

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.

Static analysis flagged 15 finding(s) at 93.0% confidence. This version is warn-only unless an AI or security-team review confirms malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 93.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-24T03:16:14.933Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-24T03:16:15.746Z
- **Download time:** 553 ms
- **Static scan time:** 259 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 813 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

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to dsh-win32@0.16.2.

- Review the evidence and your use of dsh-win32@0.16.2 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:** bin/cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/dsh-win32@0.16.2/bin/cli.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L7: 
L8: import { execFileSync } from 'node:child_process'
L9: import { existsSync, mkdirSync, readdirSync, readFileSync, realpathSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs'
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/dsh-win32@0.16.2/bin/cli.mjs>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L41: if (process.env.ProgramFiles !== undefined) {
L42: const candidate = join(process.env.ProgramFiles, 'PowerShell', '7', 'pwsh.exe')
L43: if (existsSync(candidate)) return candidate
```

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/dsh-win32@0.16.2/bin/cli.mjs>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L117: const version = JSON.parse(readFileSync(manifest, 'utf8')).version
L118: const loadable = tryExec(process.execPath, ['-e', 'require(process.argv[1])', dirname(manifest)]) !== undefined
L119: results.push({ profile, version, loadable })
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 9. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/dsh-win32@0.16.2/bin/cli.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L7: 
L8: import { execFileSync } from 'node:child_process'
L9: import { existsSync, mkdirSync, readdirSync, readFileSync, realpathSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs'
...
L18: const WIN = process.platform === 'win32'
L19: const DSH_HOME = process.env.DSH_HOME ?? join(homedir(), '.dsh')
L20: const PRESET_ID = 'minimal-windows'
L21: const PRESET_SRC = join(dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), '..', 'preset', PRESET_ID)
L22: const REPO = 'https://github.com/sjh9714/dsh-win32'
L23: const SELF_VERSION = JSON.parse(
```

### 10. High: Entrypoint Foreign Package Code Overwrite
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/dsh-win32@0.16.2/bin/cli.mjs>)

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.
bin/cli.mjs:
import { existsSync, mkdirSync, readdirSync, readFileSync, realpathSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs'
const REPO = 'https://github.com/sjh9714/dsh-win32'
const manifest = join(profilesDir, profile, 'node_modules', 'koffi', 'package.json')
add('dsh-win32/bundle', 'warn', 'listed in the profile manifest but absent from its node_modules, so the runtime never loads', 'npx dsh-win32 setup')
else add('powershell', 'warn', 'PowerShell 7 not found. Current DSH can fall back to Windows PowerShell, but PowerShell 7 is the supported path', 'install PowerShell 7 from https:/...
if (gitBash === undefined) add('git_bash', 'fail', 'Git Bash not fou
```

### 11. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/dsh-win32@0.16.2/bin/cli.mjs>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L202: // fault.
L203: add('dsh-win32/bundle', 'warn', `profile runs ${wiredBundle}, this CLI is ${SELF_VERSION}`, 'npx dsh-win32 setup. If that reports no change, the profile\'s pnpm minimumReleaseAgeEx...
L204: }
...
L217: if (!WIN) {
L218: for (const name of ['git_bash', 'powershell', 'koffi', 'persistent_powershell', 'workspace_write', 'sandbox_shell', 'write_fence']) add(name, 'skip', NOT_WINDOWS)
L219: return { checks, gitBash, official }
```

### 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:** 100.0%

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

### 15. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/dsh-win32@0.16.2/bin/cli.mjs>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = dsh-win32@0.11.0
matchedIdentity = npm:ZHNoLXdpbjMy:0.11.0
similarity = 0.556
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepare, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 4
- **Development dependencies:** 15
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 5

### Published dependency entries
- iconv-lite ^0.7.3 (Dependency)
- @deepseek-ai/cordis \>=4.0.0 \<5 (PeerDependency)
- @deepseek-ai/dsh-fs-local \>=0.1.0-rc.5 \<0.2.0 (PeerDependency)
- @deepseek-ai/dsh-fs-sandbox \>=0.1.0-rc.5 \<0.2.0 (PeerDependency)
- @deepseek-ai/dsh-subprocess-local \>=0.1.0-rc.5 \<0.1.0-rc.7 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** dsh-win32
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.16.2
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-24T03:11:29.284Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-15T10:10:01.155Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-22T22:27:13.305Z
- **Known versions:** 34
- **Latest version:** 0.17.15
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Fix and diagnose DeepSeek Harness on native Windows. Official PowerShell, Workspace Write, shortcuts, and legacy preset repair. No WSL.
- **Maintainers:** jinhyuk9714
- **Keywords:** dsh, dsh-plugin, dsh-plugins, deepseek-harness, deepseek, windows, win32, native-windows, no-wsl, workspace-write, windows-fix, doctor
- **Runtime engines:** node: ^22.19.0 || \>=24.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 48
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,558,622 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/dsh-win32/v/0.16.2>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/sjh9714/dsh-win32>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/sjh9714/dsh-win32#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/sjh9714/dsh-win32/issues>)
