---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/eve/v/0.25.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/eve/v/0.25.0.md"
package: "eve"
report_status: "published"
title: "eve@0.25.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.25.0"
---

# eve@0.25.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 23 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.25.0
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Static inspection shows a package-aligned AI-agent framework with explicit CLI scaffolding and local-server behavior, not an install-time or covert attack chain. Scanner findings arise from legitimate framework capabilities and vendored/runtime code.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-17T19:03:28.084Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-17T19:05:32.010Z
- **Download time:** 513 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3669 ms
- **AI review time:** 119743 ms
- **Total time:** 123926 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:** No confirmed malicious attack surface. Process execution, network requests, and project-file generation are feature-aligned and require explicit CLI/runtime use.

- **Trigger:** User runs an \`eve\` CLI command or invokes an application built with eve.

- **Impact:** No unconsented install-time mutation, exfiltration, or persistence established.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/src/index.js, bin/eve.js, dist/src/setup/scaffold/create/project.js, dist/src/internal/nitro/host/start-production-server.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-07-17T19:05:32.010Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** User-invoked agent framework, local server, and project scaffolding.

- **Rationale:** Static inspection shows a package-aligned AI-agent framework with explicit CLI scaffolding and local-server behavior, not an install-time or covert attack chain. Scanner findings arise from legitimate framework capabilities and vendored/runtime code.

- **Files touched:** bin/eve.js, dist/src/cli/run.js, dist/src/setup/scaffold/create/project.js, dist/src/internal/nitro/host/start-production-server.js

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** \`bin/eve.js\` uses \`spawn\`, but only when the user runs the \`eve\` CLI., \`dist/src/setup/scaffold/create/project.js\` scaffolds \`AGENTS.md\` and \`CLAUDE.md\` in a newly requested project.

- **Evidence against:** \`package.json\` contains no \`preinstall\`, \`install\`, \`postinstall\`, or \`prepare\` lifecycle hook., \`dist/src/index.js\` only re-exports public APIs; no import-time command execution was found., \`bin/eve.js\` runs packaged CLI code and only rebuilds when source/build inputs are present; published package lacks those source inputs., \`dist/src/internal/nitro/host/start-production-server.js\` launches a user-built local server and health-checks its local URL., No writes to \`.claude\`, \`.codex\`, or \`.cursor\` configuration paths were found., No hard-coded exfiltration endpoint, credential harvesting chain, native payload, or destructive install behavior was found.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to eve@0.25.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of eve@0.25.0 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: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. Critical: Critical Secret
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/compiled/experimental-ai-sdk-code-mode/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/eve@0.25.0/dist/src/compiled/experimental-ai-sdk-code-mode/index.js>)

Package contains a critical-looking secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = aws_access_key
severity = critical
line = 4
matchedText = }`)?t:r....E=";
```

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/eve.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/eve@0.25.0/bin/eve.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: 
L3: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L4: import { access, readdir, realpath, stat } from "node:fs/promises";
```

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

Package source references shell execution.

### 5. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/compiled/gray-matter/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/eve@0.25.0/dist/src/compiled/gray-matter/index.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L43: return `+str.trim()+`;
L44: }());`),eval(str)||{}}catch(e){if(wrap!==!1&&/(unexpected|identifier)/i.test(e.message))return parse(str,options,!1);throw SyntaxError(e)}},stringify:function(){throw Error(`string...
L45: `?e:e+`
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/eve.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/eve@0.25.0/bin/eve.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8: 
L9: const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
L10: const packageJson = require("../package.json");
```

### 7. Medium: Unsafe Vm Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 68.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/compiled/@workflow/core/runtime.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/eve@0.25.0/dist/src/compiled/%40workflow/core/runtime.js>)

Package source executes code through a VM context API.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{a as e,i as t,r as n,t as r}from"../../_chunks/workflow/chunk-BHKSVoKr.js";import{a as i,c as a,h as o,l as s,m as c,n as l,o as u,p as d}from"../../_chunks/workflow/dist-Ct...
L2: `).map(e=>{let n=e.match(/^\s*at\s+(?:(.+?)\s+\()?(.+?):(\d+):(\d+)\)?$/);if(!n)return e;let[,i,a,o,s]=n;if(!a.includes(t))return e;let c=parseInt(o,10),l=parseInt(s,10),u=Ti(r,{li...
```

### 8. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/internal/authored-module-loader.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/eve@0.25.0/dist/src/internal/authored-module-loader.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: `).filter(e=>!e.startsWith(`//#region `)&&e!==`//#endregion`).join(`
L4: `)}async function loadBundledAuthoredModule(e,r){let i=await bundleAuthoredModuleCode(e,r),o=normalizeExternalDependencies(r.externalDependencies),s=createHash(`sha1`).update(e).up...
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 12. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/internal/nitro/host/start-production-server.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/eve@0.25.0/dist/src/internal/nitro/host/start-production-server.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{EVE_HEALTH_ROUTE_PATH}from"#protocol/routes.js";import{existsSync}from"node:fs";import{join,resolve}from"node:path";import{spawn}from"node:child_process";import{loadDevelopm...
L2: `))}async function terminate(e){e.exitCode!==null||e.killed||(e.kill(`SIGTERM`),await Promise.race([once(e,`exit`),setTimeout(2e4).then(()=>`timeout`)])===`timeout`&&e.exitCode===n...
```

### 13. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/compiled/@workflow/world-local/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/eve@0.25.0/dist/src/compiled/%40workflow/world-local/index.js>)

Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{a as e,i as t,t as n}from"../../_chunks/workflow/chunk-BHKSVoKr.js";import{i as r,n as i,r as a,t as o}from"../../_chunks/workflow/dist-CttsoN4D.js";import{E as s,d as c,g a...
L2: `);for(let e of r){let r=e.trim().split(/\s+/);if(r.length<5||r[0]?.toUpperCase()!==`TCP`)continue;let[,i,,a,o]=r;if(a?.toUpperCase()!==`LISTENING`||o!==t.toString())continue;let s...
L3: `).slice(1);for(let e of t){if(!e.trim())continue;let t=e.trim().split(/\s+/);if(t.length<10)continue;let n=t[1],i=t[3],o=t[9];if(!n||i!==`0A`||!o||!r.has(o))continue;let s=n.index...
L4: `);for(let e of r)if(e.includes(`LISTEN`)){let t=e.trim().split(/\s+/)[8];if(t){let e=t.lastIndexOf(`:`);if(e!==-1){let r=Oe(t.slice(e+1));r!==void 0&&n.push(r)}}}return n}catch{re...
```

### 14. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/compiled/@vercel/sandbox/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/eve@0.25.0/dist/src/compiled/%40vercel/sandbox/index.js>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{i as e,o as t,t as n}from"../../_chunks/node/chunk-BTyA9uPd.js";import{n as r,t as i}from"../../_chunks/node/dist-DsNhwdzf.js";import{n as a,t as o}from"../../_chunks/node/r...
L2: `)||e.includes(`\r`)||e.includes(`\0`))===!1}function j(e){let t=(e.headersList.get(`referrer-policy`,!0)??``).split(`,`),n=``;if(t.length)for(let e=t.length;e!==0;e--){let r=t[e-1...
...
L4: `),a=[],o=new Uint8Array([13,10]);l=0;let u=!1;for(let[t,s]of e)if(typeof s==`string`){let e=S.encode(n+`; name="${r(i(t))}"\r\n\r\n${i(s)}\r\n`);a.push(e),l+=e.byteLength}else{let...
L5: Content-Type: ${s.type||`application/octet-stream`}\r\n\r\n`);a.push(e,s,o),typeof s.size==`number`?l+=e.byteLength+s.size+o.byteLength:u=!0}let d=S.encode(`--${t}--\r\n`);a.push(d...
L6: `:C+=`connection: close\r
...
L9: \r
L10
```

### 15. High: Cloud Metadata Access
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/compiled/\_chunks/workflow/dist-zLevmMyU.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/eve@0.25.0/dist/src/compiled/_chunks/workflow/dist-zLevmMyU.js>)

Source reaches cloud instance metadata or link-local credential endpoints.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{AISDKError as e,APICallError as t,EmptyResponseBodyError as n,InvalidArgumentError as r,InvalidResponseDataError as i,JSONParseError as a,LoadAPIKeyError as o,NoSuchProvider...
L2: `).filter(e=>e),n=Math.min(...t.map(e=>e.length-e.trimStart().length)),r=t.map(e=>e.slice(n)).map(e=>` `.repeat(this.indent*2)+e);for(let e of r)this.content.push(e)}compile(){let ...
L3: `))}};const Kt={major:4,minor:4,patch:3},C=p(`$ZodType`,(e,t)=>{var n;e??={},e._zod.def=t,e._zod.bag=e._zod.bag||{},e._zod.version=Kt;let r=[...e._zod.def.checks??[]];e._zod.traits...
L4: if (${n}.issues.length) {
...
L72: ${i}`,l++;return}if(jc(e,t,r)){u=e.slice(e.charCodeAt(t+6)===32?t+7:t+6,n)||void 0;return}if(r===105&&e.charCodeAt(t+1)===100&&e.charCodeAt(t+2)===58){let r=e.slice(e.charCodeAt(t+...
L73: ${t}`,l+
```

### 16. Critical: Trojan Source Unicode
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/compiled/gray-matter/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/eve@0.25.0/dist/src/compiled/gray-matter/index.js>)

Source contains bidi control or invisible Unicode characters associated with Trojan Source attacks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L44: contains invisible/control Unicode U+FEFF (zero width no-break space)
}());`),eval(str)||{}}catch(e){if(wrap!==!1&&/(unexpected|identifier)/i.test(e.message))return parse(str,options,!1);throw SyntaxError(e)}},stringify:function(){throw Error(`stringifying JavaScript is not supported`)}}})),require_strip_bom_
```

### 17. Medium: Protestware
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 90.0%

Package source has broad protestware-like patterns that need review.

### 18. Low: Obfuscated
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 60.0%

Package source has low-confidence obfuscation-like patterns.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 21. 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.

### 22. Critical: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/compiled/experimental-ai-sdk-code-mode/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/eve@0.25.0/dist/src/compiled/experimental-ai-sdk-code-mode/index.js>)

AWS access key ID in dist/src/compiled/experimental-ai-sdk-code-mode/index.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = aws_access_key
severity = critical
line = 4
matchedText = }`)?t:r....E=";
```

### 23. Critical: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/compiled/jose/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/eve@0.25.0/dist/src/compiled/jose/index.js>)

RSA private key in dist/src/compiled/jose/index.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = private_key_rsa
severity = critical
line = 2
matchedText = `)}\n---...fy};
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 5
- **Development dependencies:** 55
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 6

### Published dependency entries
- nitro 3.0.260610-beta (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/api ^1.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- ai ^7.0.26 (PeerDependency)
- braintrust ^3.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- just-bash ^3.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- microsandbox ^0.5.0 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** eve
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.25.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-07-17T19:02:38.174Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-05T02:26:43.900Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-23T00:40:57.047Z
- **Known versions:** 103
- **Latest version:** 0.83.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Filesystem-first framework for durable backend AI agents that run anywhere.
- **Maintainers:** rauchg, vercel-release-bot, matt.straka
- **Keywords:** agent-framework, agents, ai-agents, ai-sdk, evals, eve, mcp, model-context-protocol, nextjs, observability, react, serverless
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=24
- **Artifact files:** 2652
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 13,556,208 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/eve/v/0.25.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/vercel/eve>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/vercel/eve#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/vercel/eve/issues>)
