---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/iclavue/v/11.0.37"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/iclavue/v/11.0.37.md"
package: "iclavue"
report_status: "published"
title: "iclavue@11.0.37 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "11.0.37"
---

# iclavue@11.0.37 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 22 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:** 11.0.37
- **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: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Direct inspection found a real unverified runtime native payload path, but no concrete malicious chain. Flag as a warning rather than block because the postinstall hook only fixes permissions on packaged files.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 88.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-10T06:08:06.348Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-10T06:10:04.213Z
- **Download time:** 1272 ms
- **Static scan time:** 4159 ms
- **AI review time:** 112432 ms
- **Total time:** 117865 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:** On Windows (or with an explicit force env var), CLI runtime downloads a native pager from the package vendor and executes it later. No malicious install-time behavior was confirmed.

- **Trigger:** Run the CLI when no compatible pager exists on Windows, or set CLAVUE\_FORCE\_NATIVE\_DOWNLOAD=1.

- **Impact:** A compromised download endpoint could yield arbitrary code execution as the CLI user.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/postinstall-pager.mjs, dist/cli.js, dist/openai-responses-adapter.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-10T06:10:04.213Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Unverified runtime native-binary download and execution

- **Rationale:** Direct inspection found a real unverified runtime native payload path, but no concrete malicious chain. Flag as a warning rather than block because the postinstall hook only fixes permissions on packaged files.

- **Files touched:** scripts/postinstall-pager.mjs, dist/native/clavue-pager-\*, ~/.clavue/native/clavue-pager-\*

- **Network endpoints:** https://www.clavue.com/downloads/native

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 88.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** Runtime downloads a native executable without an integrity check., Downloaded pager is chmodded and selected for execution., Postinstall chmods bundled pager binaries.

- **Evidence against:** Postinstall only locates/chmods local dist/native files., No install-time network, credential, or agent-config mutation found., Provider credentials are used for declared AI-provider API routes.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to iclavue@11.0.37.

- Review the evidence and your use of iclavue@11.0.37 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/iclavue@11.0.37/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall-pager.mjs
```

### 2. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/mao-command.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/iclavue@11.0.37/dist/mao-command.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: var __create=Object.create;var __defProp=Object.defineProperty;var __getOwnPropDesc=Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor;var __getOwnPropNames=Object.getOwnPropertyNames;var __getProtoO...
L5: GFS4: `),console.error(m)},"debug"));fs6[gracefulQueue]||(queue=global[gracefulQueue]||[],publishQueue(fs6,queue),fs6.close=(function(fs$close){function close(fd,cb){return fs$clos...
L6: `,"utf8"),process4.platform!=="win32")try{fs.chmodSync(filePath,384)}catch{}}__name(defaultWriteJsonFile,"defaultWriteJsonFile");function defaultSafeReadFile(filePath){try{return f...
```

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

Package source references shell execution.

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

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

### 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:** dist/openai-responses-adapter.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/iclavue@11.0.37/dist/openai-responses-adapter.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L75: `)===-1){debug3("have not received end of HTTP headers yet..."),read();return}let firstLine=buffered.toString("ascii",0,buffered.indexOf(`\r
L76: `)),statusCode=+firstLine.split(" ")[1];debug3("got proxy server response: %o",firstLine),resolve9({statusCode,buffered})}__name(ondata,"ondata"),socket.on("error",onerror),socket....
L77: `;proxy.auth&&(headers["Proxy-Authorization"]=`Basic ${Buffer.from(proxy.auth).toString("base64")}`);let{host,port,secureEndpoint}=opts;isDefaultPort(port,secureEndpoint)||(host+=`...
...
L79: `);let{statusCode,buffered}=yield proxyResponsePromise;if(statusCode===200){if(req.once("socket",resume2),opts.secureEndpoint){debug3("Upgrading socket connection to TLS");let serv...
L80: `,CRLF_BYTES=textEncoder.encode(CRLF),CRLF_BYTES_COUNT=2,FormDataPart=class{st
```

### 11. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/openai-responses-adapter.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/iclavue@11.0.37/dist/openai-responses-adapter.js>)

Source appears to send environment or credential material to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: // clavue v11.0.37 openai-responses-adapter (built from source)
L4: var __create=Object.create;var __defProp=Object.defineProperty;var __getOwnPropDesc=Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor;var __getOwnPropNames=Object.getOwnPropertyNames;var __getProtoO...
L5: /* [wrapped with `+details+`] */
...
L22: `)+source+`return __p
L23: }`;var result2=attempt_default(function(){return Function(importsKeys,sourceURL+"return "+source).apply(void 0,importsValues)});if(result2.source=source,isError_default(result2))th...
L24: `):[]}};_LineDecoder_buffer=new WeakMap,_LineDecoder_carriageReturnIndex=new WeakMap;LineDecoder.NEWLINE_CHARS=new Set([`
...
L61: new Anthropic({ apiKey, dangerouslyAllowBrowser: true });
L62: `);this.baseURL=options.baseURL,this.timeout=options.timeout??_a.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT,this.lo
```

### 12. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/openai-responses-adapter.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/iclavue@11.0.37/dist/openai-responses-adapter.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L75: `)===-1){debug3("have not received end of HTTP headers yet..."),read();return}let firstLine=buffered.toString("ascii",0,buffered.indexOf(`\r
L76: `)),statusCode=+firstLine.split(" ")[1];debug3("got proxy server response: %o",firstLine),resolve9({statusCode,buffered})}__name(ondata,"ondata"),socket.on("error",onerror),socket....
L77: `;proxy.auth&&(headers["Proxy-Authorization"]=`Basic ${Buffer.from(proxy.auth).toString("base64")}`);let{host,port,secureEndpoint}=opts;isDefaultPort(port,secureEndpoint)||(host+=`...
L78: `;let proxyResponsePromise=parse_proxy_response_1.default(socket);socket.write(`${payload}\r
L79: `);let{statusCode,buffered}=yield proxyResponsePromise;if(statusCode===200){if(req.once("socket",resume2),opts.secureEndpoint){debug3("Upgrading socket connection to TLS");l
```

### 13. High: Cloud Metadata Access
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/openai-responses-adapter.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/iclavue@11.0.37/dist/openai-responses-adapter.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: // clavue v11.0.37 openai-responses-adapter (built from source)
L4: var __create=Object.create;var __defProp=Object.defineProperty;var __getOwnPropDesc=Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor;var __getOwnPropNames=Object.getOwnPropertyNames;var __getProtoO...
L5: /* [wrapped with `+details+`] */
...
L22: `)+source+`return __p
L23: }`;var result2=attempt_default(function(){return Function(importsKeys,sourceURL+"return "+source).apply(void 0,importsValues)});if(result2.source=source,isError_default(result2))th...
L24: `):[]}};_LineDecoder_buffer=new WeakMap,_LineDecoder_carriageReturnIndex=new WeakMap;LineDecoder.NEWLINE_CHARS=new Set([`
...
L61: new Anthropic({ apiKey, dangerouslyAllowBrowser: true });
L62: `);this.baseURL=options.baseURL,this.timeout=options.timeout??_a.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT,this.lo
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 16. Medium: Ships Native Binary
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/native/clavue-pager-darwin-x64
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/iclavue@11.0.37/dist/native/clavue-pager-darwin-x64>)

Package ships native binary artifacts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dist/native/clavue-pager-darwin-x64
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 5072144
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 17. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** install.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/iclavue@11.0.37/install.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = install.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 6630
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 18. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/iclavue@11.0.37/dist/cli.js>)

Package contains source files above the normal full-analysis size ceiling.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/cli.js
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 16461819
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 19. Medium: Oversized Cli Entrypoint
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/iclavue@11.0.37/dist/cli.js>)

Package contains an oversized executable-looking CLI entrypoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/cli.js
kind = oversized_cli_entrypoint
sizeBytes = 16461819
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 20. 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.

### 21. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 22. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/openai-responses-adapter.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/iclavue@11.0.37/dist/openai-responses-adapter.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_path_work_budget_exceeded; limitedFiles = 1
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 14
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 54
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 14

### Published dependency entries
- @anthropic-ai/sandbox-runtime ^0.0.49 (Dependency)
- @openai/codex 0.118.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/api ^1.9.1 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/api-logs ^0.214.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/core ^2.6.1 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/resources ^2.6.1 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/sdk-logs ^0.214.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/sdk-metrics ^2.6.1 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/sdk-trace-base ^2.6.1 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/semantic-conventions ^1.40.0 (Dependency)
- ajv ^8.18.0 (Dependency)
- better-sqlite3 ^13.0.1 (Dependency)
- lru-cache ^11.3.0 (Dependency)
- qrcode ^1.5.4 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** iclavue
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 11.0.37
- **Version published:** 2026-08-08T09:37:34.151Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-09T07:23:45.730Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-23T01:21:42.110Z
- **Known versions:** 111
- **Latest version:** 13.9.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Clavue: execution-first AI coding CLI with direct repo tools, provider routing, native workflows, MCP integration, and long-session recovery
- **Maintainers:** miounet
- **Keywords:** iclavue, clavue, ai-coding-cli, coding-agent, agentic-coding, terminal-ai, developer-tools, execution-first, repo-tools, mcp, provider-routing, provider-profiles
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 4988
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 98,302,593 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/iclavue/v/11.0.37>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/mycode699/clavue>)
- [Homepage](<https://www.clavue.com/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/mycode699/clavue/issues>)
