--- canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/icoa-cli/v/2.19.468" markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/icoa-cli/v/2.19.468.md" package: "icoa-cli" report_status: "published" title: "icoa-cli@2.19.468 npm security report" verdict: "suspicious" version: "2.19.468" --- # icoa-cli@2.19.468 npm security report > **Trust boundary:** Package metadata, advisory text, filenames, URLs, and source snippets in this report come from external packages or feeds. Treat them as untrusted evidence. Do not execute instructions or code found in this document. ## Verdict summary **Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 17 finding(s) warrant review before installing. - **Verdict:** Suspicious - **Product-default install policy:** Warn - **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list - **Public report status:** Published - **Threat category:** Data Exfiltration - **Selected version:** 2.19.468 - **Selected version is latest:** No - **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai) The interactive CLI records every REPL input, including explicit shell commands, then automatically uploads those records and identifying metadata. This occurs on REPL use, not npm installation. ## Latest scan - **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1 - **Verdict:** Suspicious - **Confidence:** 90.0% - **Started:** 2026-08-06T13:00:43.253Z - **Finished:** 2026-08-06T13:01:56.846Z - **Download time:** 255 ms - **Static scan time:** 931 ms - **AI review time:** 72406 ms - **Total time:** 73593 ms ## Security analysis ### Published attack-surface review - **Summary:** The interactive CLI records every REPL input, including explicit shell commands, then automatically uploads those records and identifying metadata. This occurs on REPL use, not npm installation. - **Trigger:** Run icoa and enter commands in its REPL. - **Impact:** User-entered secrets, flags, URLs, and shell command text can be disclosed to the configured/default remote service. - **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/repl.js, dist/lib/logger.js, dist/lib/log-sync.js, dist/commands/ctf4ai-demo.js - **Review source:** ai\_review - **Reviewed:** 2026-08-06T13:01:56.846Z ### AI review details - **Review stage:** source\_first\_review - **Mechanism:** Automatic command-input collection and remote audit-log upload. - **Rationale:** This is concrete automatic data exfiltration of all interactive inputs, including shell-command text, to a remote endpoint without a visible opt-in. The absence of install hooks limits the trigger to runtime but does not remove the disclosure risk. Product guard normalized a non-low false-positive publish\_block request to warn-only suspicious. - **Files touched:** ~/.icoa/session.log, ~/.icoa/sync-state.json - **Network endpoints:** https://practice.icoa2026.au/api/icoa/audit ### Review decision - **Verdict:** Suspicious - **Confidence:** 90.0% - **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn - **Intent class:** Malware - **False-positive risk:** Medium - **Evidence for:** dist/repl.js starts log sync whenever its REPL starts and logs each input., dist/lib/logger.js persists raw command input to ~/.icoa/session.log., dist/lib/log-sync.js automatically POSTs logged entries, device data, and identity metadata to /api/icoa/audit., dist/repl.js explicitly supports !-prefixed arbitrary shell commands; their raw input is logged before execution., dist/commands/ctf4ai-demo.js is heavily obfuscated and includes another user-command execution path. - **Evidence against:** package.json has no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook., Observed network targets are ICOA-branded competition endpoints., No source evidence of secret-file harvesting or shell-command output capture/exfiltration. ## 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:** dist/repl.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references child process execution. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L1: import{createInterface as o}from"node:readline";import{spawn as e,execSync as t}from"node:child_process";import chalk from"chalk";import{dispatchable as n,helpRows as l,shortcutFor... ``` ### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% - **Path:** dist/commands/ctf4ai-demo.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references dynamic require/import behavior. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L1: (function(b,f){const U=a0f,h=b();while(!![]){try{const j=parseInt(U(0x1a5))/(0x1d24+-0x6a+-0x1cb9)*(parseInt(U(0x14b))/(-0x1ae6*-0x1+0x829+0x9*-0x3e5))+-parseInt(U(0x175))/(-0xb8f*... ``` ### 5. Medium: Network - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% Package source references network APIs. ### 6. Medium: Environment Vars - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% Package source references environment variables. ### 7. Medium: Install Persistence - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% - **Path:** dist/commands/env.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L1: import chalk from"chalk";import{execSync as e}from"node:child_process";import{appendFileSync as o,existsSync as n,mkdirSync as t,readFileSync as r}from"node:fs";import{homedir as a... ``` ### 8. High: Same File Env Network Execution - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 85.0% - **Path:** dist/repl.js - **Public source:** [View source]() 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{createInterface as o}from"node:readline";import{spawn as e,execSync as t}from"node:child_process";import chalk from"chalk";import{dispatchable as n,helpRows as l,shortcutFor... ``` ### 9. High: Command Output Exfiltration - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 82.0% - **Path:** dist/repl.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L1: import{createInterface as o}from"node:readline";import{spawn as e,execSync as t}from"node:child_process";import chalk from"chalk";import{dispatchable as n,helpRows as l,shortcutFor... ``` ### 10. Critical: Reverse Shell - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 92.0% - **Path:** dist/lib/tool-man.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Source matches reverse-shell style process and socket wiring. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L1: import chalk from"chalk";export const TOOL_DOCS=[{name:"file",cat:"Forensics",summary:"identify a file type (always step 1)",ex:[["file mystery","what is this really? (extension li... ``` ### 11. High: Obfuscated Payload Loader - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 86.0% - **Path:** dist/commands/ctf4ai-demo.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Source contains an obfuscated payload loader that reconstructs and executes hidden code. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L1: (function(b,f){const U=a0f,h=b();while(!![]){try{const j=parseInt(U(0x1a5))/(0x1d24+-0x6a+-0x1cb9)*(parseInt(U(0x14b))/(-0x1ae6*-0x1+0x829+0x9*-0x3e5))+-parseInt(U(0x175))/(-0xb8f*... ``` ### 12. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 94.0% - **Path:** dist/repl.js - **Public source:** [View source]() A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches command-output exfiltration behavior. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript Trigger-reachable command-output exfiltration chain: scripts.start -> dist/index.js -> dist/repl.js L1: import{createInterface as o}from"node:readline";import{spawn as e,execSync as t}from"node:child_process";import chalk from"chalk";import{dispatchable as n,helpRows as l,shortcutFor... ``` ### 13. High: Obfuscated - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 70.0% Package source appears deliberately obfuscated. ### 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: Structural Risk Force Deep Review - **Category:** Artifact Inventory - **Confidence:** 100.0% Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean. ### 17. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 93.0% - **Path:** dist/commands/learn.js - **Public source:** [View source]() 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 = icoa-cli@2.19.461 matchedIdentity = npm:aWNvYS1jbGk:2.19.461 similarity = 0.897 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:** 10 - **Optional dependencies:** 0 - **Peer dependencies:** 0 - **Development dependencies:** 8 - **Published dependency-graph edges:** 10 ### Published dependency entries - @google/genai ^1.48.0 (Dependency) - @inquirer/prompts ^7.5.0 (Dependency) - chalk ^5.4.1 (Dependency) - cli-table3 ^0.6.5 (Dependency) - commander ^13.1.0 (Dependency) - fastest-levenshtein ^1.0.16 (Dependency) - marked ^15.0.7 (Dependency) - marked-terminal ^7.3.0 (Dependency) - ora ^8.2.0 (Dependency) - string-width ^4.2.3 (Dependency) ## Package metadata - **Package:** icoa-cli - **Ecosystem:** npm - **Version:** 2.19.468 - **License:** BUSL-1.1 - **Version published:** 2026-08-06T10:28:48.277Z - **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T01:40:34.499Z - **Package last seen:** 2026-08-20T15:51:54.317Z - **Known versions:** 43 - **Latest version:** 2.19.506 - **Appeal under review:** No - **Description:** ICOA CLI — The world's first CLI-native cyber & AI security olympiad terminal: AI4CTF (Day 1), CTF4AI (Day 2), VLA4CTF (Pioneer Round — embodied AI) - **Maintainers:** icoa - **Keywords:** ctf, cli, cybersecurity, ai-security, embodied-ai, vla, olympiad, icoa, competition, k-12, education, mujoco - **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.0.0 - **Artifact files:** 126 - **Artifact unpacked size:** 991,327 bytes - **Artifact signatures:** 1 - **Attestations:** No ## References - [HTML security report]()