---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/dsh-win32"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/dsh-win32/v/0.17.14.md"
package: "dsh-win32"
report_status: "published"
title: "dsh-win32@0.17.14 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.17.14"
---

# dsh-win32@0.17.14 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — The user’s GitHub account is changed by an action unrelated to the requested local setup.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 0.17.14
- **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: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The source establishes an unrequested, publisher-selected authenticated account action during setup, which is concrete attack behavior. The manifest’s lifecycle scripts only build and test, but that does not prevent the runtime setup path from changing the user’s GitHub account.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 97.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-19T17:34:13.923Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-19T17:34:44.044Z
- **Download time:** 509 ms
- **Static scan time:** 394 ms
- **AI review time:** 29218 ms
- **Total time:** 30121 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:** The setup command can use the user’s authenticated GitHub CLI account to star the publisher’s repository without asking for confirmation.

- **Trigger:** A user runs current or legacy setup outside a detected CI environment while GitHub CLI authentication is available.

- **Impact:** The user’s GitHub account is changed by an action unrelated to the requested local setup.

- **Evidence paths:** bin/cli.mjs, bin/setup-consent.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-19T17:34:44.044Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The setup helper checks GitHub CLI authentication, then sends a PUT request to GitHub’s repository-star endpoint. Its marker records a yes answer without obtaining one.

- **Attack narrative:** Running setup can trigger a GitHub star for the publisher’s repository through the user’s authenticated GitHub CLI account. The helper records a yes marker without prompting; CI detection is the only inspected skip guard.

- **Rationale:** The source establishes an unrequested, publisher-selected authenticated account action during setup, which is concrete attack behavior. The manifest’s lifecycle scripts only build and test, but that does not prevent the runtime setup path from changing the user’s GitHub account.

- **Files touched:** bin/cli.mjs, bin/setup-consent.mjs, .dsh-win32-star-prompted

- **Network endpoints:** github.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 97.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for block:** The package exposes a setup command, and its prepare and prepublishOnly scripts run build and test tasks., Both current and legacy setup call the GitHub star helper without an affirmative prompt., When an authenticated GitHub CLI account is available, the helper sends a PUT request to star the publisher’s repository; CI setup skips this action.

- **Evidence against:** The manifest has no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook., The account action is limited to setup flows and is skipped in CI.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to dsh-win32@0.17.14.

- Avoid installing dsh-win32@0.17.14. 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. 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/setup-consent.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/dsh-win32@0.17.14/bin/setup-consent.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import { execFileSync } from 'node:child_process'
L2: import { existsSync, mkdirSync, 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@0.17.14/bin/cli.mjs>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L44: if (process.env.ProgramFiles !== undefined) {
L45: const candidate = join(process.env.ProgramFiles, 'PowerShell', '7', 'pwsh.exe')
L46: if (existsSync(candidate)) return candidate
```

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** lib/verify.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/dsh-win32@0.17.14/lib/verify.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L138: try {
L139: const require_ = createRequire(import.meta.url);
L140: candidates.push({ path: require_.resolve('@deepseek-ai/dsh/package.json'), source: 'package-tree' });
```

### 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@0.17.14/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
L21: const WIN = process.platform === 'win32'
L22: const DSH_HOME = process.env.DSH_HOME ?? join(homedir(), '.dsh')
L23: const PRESET_ID = 'minimal-windows'
L24: const PRESET_SRC = join(dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), '..', 'preset', PRESET_ID)
L25: const REPO = 'https://github.com/sjh9714/dsh-win32'
L26: const SELF_VERSION = JSON.parse(
...
L36: try {
L37: return execFileSync(file, args, { encoding: 'utf8', windowsHide: true, stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'ignore'] })
L38: } catch {
```

### 10. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/dsh-win32@0.17.14/bin/cli.mjs>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L214: if (release === undefined) {
L215: add('dsh_current', 'warn', 'could not read the current @deepseek-ai/dsh release metadata', 'check the network and re-run npx dsh-win32 doctor')
L216: } else if (official) {
...
L223: if (!WIN) {
L224: for (const name of ['git_bash', 'powershell', 'koffi', 'persistent_powershell', 'workspace_write', 'sandbox_shell', 'write_fence', 'dsh-win32/persona']) add(name, 'skip', NOT_WINDO...
L225: return { checks, gitBash, official }
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 13. 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.

### 14. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** lib/index.d.ts\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/dsh-win32@0.17.14/lib/index.d.ts%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 = 2
```

### 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@0.17.14/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 = 0.444
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:** 2
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 4
- **Development dependencies:** 16
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 6

### Published dependency entries
- iconv-lite ^0.7.3 (Dependency)
- yaml 2.9.1 (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:** 0.17.14
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-24T14:37:02.447Z
- **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.
- **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:** 65
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,713,905 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/dsh-win32/v/0.17.14>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/sjh9714/dsh-win32.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/sjh9714/dsh-win32#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/sjh9714/dsh-win32/issues>)