---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/icoa-cli"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/icoa-cli/v/2.19.624.md"
package: "icoa-cli"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "icoa-cli@2.19.624 npm security report"
verdict: "scan_failed"
version: "2.19.624"
---

# icoa-cli@2.19.624 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 31 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Scan Failed
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Under Review
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 2.19.624
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

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.

Static analysis completed at 0.0% confidence. No malicious behavior was detected; 31 low-signal pattern(s) were surfaced and cleared.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Scan Failed
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 0.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-19T05:33:17.625Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-19T05:33:20.321Z
- **Download time:** 763 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1933 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 2696 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

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to icoa-cli@2.19.624.

- Review the evidence and your use of icoa-cli@2.19.624 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: 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. Medium: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/commands/gpufortask.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/icoa-cli@2.19.624/dist/commands/gpufortask.js>)

Package contains a possible secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = generic_password
severity = medium
line = 1
```

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/repl.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/icoa-cli@2.19.624/dist/repl.js>)

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{appendExitLog as n}from"./lib/exit-log.js";...
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/lib/access.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/icoa-cli@2.19.624/dist/lib/access.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{createHash as t}from"node:crypto";import{execSync as e}from"node:child_process";import{platform as n}from"node:os";import{getConfig as r,saveConfig as i,getIcoaDir as o,getI...
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/commands/ctf4ai-demo.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/icoa-cli@2.19.624/dist/commands/ctf4ai-demo.js>)

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(0x1e1))/(0x245*0x3+0x76*-0x1+-0x658)+-parseInt(U(0x247))/(-0x7a8+-0x13bc+0x1f5*0xe)*(parseInt(U(0x24d))/(-0x167...
```

### 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. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/repl.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/icoa-cli@2.19.624/dist/repl.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{createInterface as o}from"node:readline";import{spawn as e,execSync as t}from"node:child_process";import chalk from"chalk";import{appendExitLog as n}from"./lib/exit-log.js";...
```

### 10. Critical: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/lib/exam-sandbox.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/icoa-cli@2.19.624/dist/lib/exam-sandbox.js>)

Source executes local commands and sends command output to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{mkdtempSync as t,mkdirSync as e,existsSync as o,appendFileSync as s,statSync as i}from"node:fs";import{execFileSync as n}from"node:child_process";import{tmpdir as r,homedir ...
```

### 11. Critical: Reverse Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 92.0%
- **Path:** dist/lib/tool-man.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/icoa-cli@2.19.624/dist/lib/tool-man.js>)

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...
```

### 12. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/commands/aienv.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/icoa-cli@2.19.624/dist/commands/aienv.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{execSync as o,spawn as n}from"node:child_process";import{existsSync as e,mkdtempSync as t,readFileSync as r,rmSync as s,writeFileSync as a}from"node:fs";import{homedir as i,...
```

### 13. High: Obfuscated Payload Loader
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/commands/ctf4ai-demo.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/icoa-cli@2.19.624/dist/commands/ctf4ai-demo.js>)

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(0x1e1))/(0x245*0x3+0x76*-0x1+-0x658)+-parseInt(U(0x247))/(-0x7a8+-0x13bc+0x1f5*0xe)*(parseInt(U(0x24d))/(-0x167...
```

### 14. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/lib/exam-sandbox.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/icoa-cli@2.19.624/dist/lib/exam-sandbox.js>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: scripts.start -> dist/index.js -> dist/commands/aienv.js -> dist/lib/exam-sandbox.js
L1: import{mkdtempSync as t,mkdirSync as e,existsSync as o,appendFileSync as s,statSync as i}from"node:fs";import{execFileSync as n}from"node:child_process";import{tmpdir as r,homedir ...
```

### 15. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/commands/gfssm.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/icoa-cli@2.19.624/dist/commands/gfssm.js>)

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/commands/gfssm.js
L1: import{execFile as e}from"node:child_process";import{mkdir as o,writeFile as n}from"node:fs/promises";import{homedir as t}from"node:os";import{join as r}from"node:path";import{crea...
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 18. 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.

### 19. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/commands/battle.js\#virtual:string-array:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/icoa-cli@2.19.624/dist/commands/battle.js%23virtual%3Astring-array%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 = 6
```

### 20. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/commands/aienv.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/icoa-cli@2.19.624/dist/commands/aienv.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = icoa-cli@2.19.614
matchedPath = dist/commands/aienv.js
matchedIdentity = npm:aWNvYS1jbGk:2.19.614
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 21. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/commands/env.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/icoa-cli@2.19.624/dist/commands/env.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = icoa-cli@2.19.614
matchedPath = dist/commands/env.js
matchedIdentity = npm:aWNvYS1jbGk:2.19.614
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 22. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/commands/gfssm.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/icoa-cli@2.19.624/dist/commands/gfssm.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = icoa-cli@2.19.614
matchedPath = dist/commands/gfssm.js
matchedIdentity = npm:aWNvYS1jbGk:2.19.614
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 23. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/commands/ioailab.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/icoa-cli@2.19.624/dist/commands/ioailab.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = icoa-cli@2.19.614
matchedPath = dist/commands/ioailab.js
matchedIdentity = npm:aWNvYS1jbGk:2.19.614
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 24. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/commands/doctor.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/icoa-cli@2.19.624/dist/commands/doctor.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = icoa-cli@2.19.614
matchedPath = dist/commands/doctor.js
matchedIdentity = npm:aWNvYS1jbGk:2.19.614
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 25. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/commands/teleload.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/icoa-cli@2.19.624/dist/commands/teleload.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = icoa-cli@2.19.614
matchedPath = dist/commands/teleload.js
matchedIdentity = npm:aWNvYS1jbGk:2.19.614
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 26. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/lib/exam-sandbox.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/icoa-cli@2.19.624/dist/lib/exam-sandbox.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = icoa-cli@2.19.614
matchedPath = dist/lib/exam-sandbox.js
matchedIdentity = npm:aWNvYS1jbGk:2.19.614
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 27. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/commands/arena-eai.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/icoa-cli@2.19.624/dist/commands/arena-eai.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = icoa-cli@2.19.614
matchedPath = dist/commands/arena-eai.js
matchedIdentity = npm:aWNvYS1jbGk:2.19.614
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 28. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/commands/battle.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/icoa-cli@2.19.624/dist/commands/battle.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = icoa-cli@2.19.614
matchedPath = dist/commands/battle.js
matchedIdentity = npm:aWNvYS1jbGk:2.19.614
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 29. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/commands/duck.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/icoa-cli@2.19.624/dist/commands/duck.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = icoa-cli@2.19.614
matchedPath = dist/commands/duck.js
matchedIdentity = npm:aWNvYS1jbGk:2.19.614
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 30. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/commands/shell.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/icoa-cli@2.19.624/dist/commands/shell.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = icoa-cli@2.19.614
matchedPath = dist/commands/shell.js
matchedIdentity = npm:aWNvYS1jbGk:2.19.614
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 31. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/lib/access.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/icoa-cli@2.19.624/dist/lib/access.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = icoa-cli@2.19.614
matchedPath = dist/lib/access.js
matchedIdentity = npm:aWNvYS1jbGk:2.19.614
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## 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
- @inquirer/confirm ^5.1.21 (Dependency)
- @inquirer/input ^4.3.1 (Dependency)
- @inquirer/select ^4.4.2 (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)
- ora ^8.2.0 (Dependency)
- string-width ^4.2.3 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** icoa-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.19.624
- **License:** BUSL-1.1
- **Version published:** 2026-09-19T02:31:19.018Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T01:40:34.499Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-01T07:29:00.653Z
- **Known versions:** 136
- **Latest version:** 2.19.645
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** ICOA CLI — AI-native competition runtime of the International Cyber Olympiad in AI: learn, practise, and compete in AI & cybersecurity from the terminal (AI4CTF · CTF4AI · CTF4EAI)
- **Author:** Charlie Zhu
- **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:** 161
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,325,224 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/icoa-cli/v/2.19.624>)
