---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/gitelectron/v/1.0.4"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/gitelectron/v/1.0.4.md"
package: "gitelectron"
report_status: "published"
title: "gitelectron@1.0.4 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.0.4"
---

# gitelectron@1.0.4 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 14 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Remote Code Execution
- **Selected version:** 1.0.4
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

A failed explicit gitelectron push sends Git status/error data to an AI provider and executes the provider's returned shell commands. This creates remote-command execution risk in the caller's working directory.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-23T14:57:56.467Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-23T14:58:51.223Z
- **Download time:** 253 ms
- **Static scan time:** 280 ms
- **AI review time:** 54222 ms
- **Total time:** 54756 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** A failed explicit gitelectron push sends Git status/error data to an AI provider and executes the provider's returned shell commands. This creates remote-command execution risk in the caller's working directory.

- **Trigger:** User runs gitelectron push and the Git operation fails.

- **Impact:** Arbitrary commands may run with the invoking user's privileges.

- **Evidence paths:** bin/cli.js, bin/postinstall.js, package.json

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-23T14:58:51.223Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Unvalidated AI-generated shell commands executed with execSync.

- **Rationale:** The source establishes a concrete remote-command-execution vulnerability, but the behavior is branded as an unsafe auto-fix feature rather than covert malware. The install hook is concerning but package-aligned and does not mutate a foreign control surface.

- **Files touched:** bin/cli.js, bin/postinstall.js, package.json

- **Network endpoints:** https://router.huggingface.co/v1

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 93.0%

- **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn

- **Intent class:** Critical Vulnerability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** Lifecycle postinstall runs child-process setup and launches Electron on global installs., CLI transmits Git failure context to remote AI services and trusts a commandsToRun array., On a failed user push, every AI-returned command is executed through execSync without validation or confirmation.

- **Evidence against:** The dangerous execution path is triggered by an explicit CLI push and a Git failure, not silently at import., No source evidence of unrelated credential harvesting, stealth persistence, or foreign AI-agent configuration writes., Postinstall's electron-builder command appears package-aligned dependency setup.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/gitelectron@1.0.4/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node ./bin/postinstall.js
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/gitelectron@1.0.4/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node ./bin/postinstall.js
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/gitelectron@1.0.4/bin/postinstall.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: 
L3: const { spawn } = require('child_process')
L4: const path = require('path')
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 9. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** src/main/index.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/gitelectron@1.0.4/src/main/index.ts>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L16: title: 'GIT ELECTRON',
L17: ...(process.platform === 'linux' ? { icon } : {}),
L18: webPreferences: {
L19: preload: join(__dirname, '../preload/index.js'),
L20: sandbox: false
...
L43: 
L44: if (is.dev && process.env['ELECTRON_RENDERER_URL']) {
L45: mainWindow.loadURL(process.env['ELECTRON_RENDERER_URL'])
...
L78: if (repoPath) {
L79: windows[0].webContents.send('set-cli-repo', repoPath)
L80: }
...
L259: description: string,
```

### 10. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** bin/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/gitelectron@1.0.4/bin/postinstall.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L13: const { execSync } = require('child_process')
L14: execSync('npx electron-builder install-app-deps', { stdio: 'inherit' })
L15: } else {
```

### 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: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** build-linux.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/gitelectron@1.0.4/build-linux.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = build-linux.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 676
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 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.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 14
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 19
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 14

### Published dependency entries
- @electron-toolkit/preload ^3.0.2 (Dependency)
- @electron-toolkit/utils ^4.0.0 (Dependency)
- @google/generative-ai ^0.24.1 (Dependency)
- @tailwindcss/postcss ^4.3.3 (Dependency)
- autoprefixer ^10.5.4 (Dependency)
- chokidar ^5.0.0 (Dependency)
- commander ^11.0.0 (Dependency)
- framer-motion ^13.1.0 (Dependency)
- openai ^7.5.0 (Dependency)
- postcss ^8.5.26 (Dependency)
- qrcode.react ^4.2.0 (Dependency)
- react-icons ^5.7.0 (Dependency)
- simple-git ^3.36.0 (Dependency)
- tailwindcss ^4.3.3 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** gitelectron
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.4
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-23T14:50:43.409Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-23T14:58:51.223Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-27T21:26:02.236Z
- **Known versions:** 9
- **Latest version:** 1.0.16
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Lightweight, flexible Git automation tool. Works as a desktop app and npm CLI tool.
- **Author:** GitElectron
- **Maintainers:** codersudipto
- **Artifact files:** 64
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 761,041 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/gitelectron/v/1.0.4>)
- [Homepage](<https://gitelectron.com/>)