---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/kcgrouter"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/kcgrouter/v/0.16.0.md"
package: "kcgrouter"
report_status: "published"
title: "kcgrouter@0.16.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.16.0"
---

# kcgrouter@0.16.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 21 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Persistence
- **Selected version:** 0.16.0
- **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: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Installation enables persistent login startup without an affirmative setup command. This warrants a warning, but the inspected behavior does not establish a malicious attack.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 87.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-02T23:57:09.744Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-02T23:58:38.167Z
- **Download time:** 1285 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2741 ms
- **AI review time:** 84396 ms
- **Total time:** 88423 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:** Installation enables persistent login startup without an affirmative setup command. This warrants a warning, but the inspected behavior does not establish a malicious attack.

- **Trigger:** Installing the package with lifecycle scripts enabled and KCGRouter\_SKIP\_STARTUP unset, followed by user login.

- **Impact:** The router can run in the background at subsequent logins without separate setup consent.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.mjs, src/cli/daemon.ts, src/cli/index.ts

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-02T23:58:38.167Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The postinstall hook writes platform startup entries that invoke the router daemon.

- **Rationale:** Source confirms default installation-time persistence, supporting a warning for dangerous capability. The inspected code does not establish a block-eligible malicious chain, and scanner similarity labels alone do not prove one.

- **Files touched:** kcgrouter.desktop, com.kcgrouter.plist, kcgrouter-startup.vbs

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 87.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** package.json automatically runs scripts/postinstall.mjs after installation., The install hook registers login startup by default unless KCGRouter\_SKIP\_STARTUP is set., The hook writes an enabled Linux autostart entry; Windows and macOS have equivalent startup registration., The daemon runs detached with hidden windows and records its process identifier., The CLI exposes an explicit startup removal command.

- **Evidence against:** Startup entries launch the package's own router, consistent with its daemon functionality., No concrete credential theft, unrelated remote payload execution, or foreign AI-agent control mutation was established in the inspected source.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to kcgrouter@0.16.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of kcgrouter@0.16.0 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/kcgrouter@0.16.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = bun scripts/postinstall.mjs
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/kcgrouter@0.16.0/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = bun scripts/postinstall.mjs
```

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

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 5. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

### 6. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** src/server/providers/qoder/cosy.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/kcgrouter@0.16.0/src/server/providers/qoder/cosy.ts>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L50: 
L51: function pkcs7Pad(data: Buffer, blockSize: number): Buffer {
L52: const padding = blockSize - (data.length % blockSize);
...
L57: 
L58: function aesEncryptCbcBase64(plaintext: string, keyStr: string): string {
L59: const keyBytes = Buffer.from(keyStr, "utf8");
...
L125: * @param creds Credentials used for signing.
L126: * @returns Header map ready to merge onto fetch().
L127: */
```

### 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. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/kcgrouter@0.16.0/scripts/postinstall.mjs>)

Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: // because creating symlinks requires admin privileges / Developer Mode.
L7: import { execSync } from "node:child_process";
L8: import { chmodSync, copyFileSync, existsSync, mkdirSync, symlinkSync, unlinkSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
...
L21: function resolveTraybin() {
L22: let dir = process.cwd();
L23: for (;;) {
...
L35: win32: { src: "tray_windows_release.exe", link: "tray_windows.exe" },
L36: }[process.platform];
L37: 
...
L64: const HOME = homedir();
L65: const KCGRouter_HOME = process.env.KCGRouter_HOME || join(HOME, ".kcgrouter");
L66: const isWin = process.platform === "win32";
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 12. Low: Telemetry
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 14. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

### 15. Medium: Wildcard Dependency
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest contains a wildcard dependency.

### 16. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/kcgrouter@0.16.0/scripts/postinstall.mjs>)

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 = kcgrouter@0.14.2
matchedPath = scripts/postinstall.mjs
matchedIdentity = npm:a2Nncm91dGVy:0.14.2
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/lib/startup.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/kcgrouter@0.16.0/src/lib/startup.ts>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = kcgrouter@0.14.2
matchedPath = src/lib/startup.ts
matchedIdentity = npm:a2Nncm91dGVy:0.14.2
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 18. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/cli/daemon.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/kcgrouter@0.16.0/src/cli/daemon.ts>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = kcgrouter@0.14.2
matchedPath = src/cli/daemon.ts
matchedIdentity = npm:a2Nncm91dGVy:0.14.2
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 19. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/server/services/version.service.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/kcgrouter@0.16.0/src/server/services/version.service.ts>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = kcgrouter@0.14.2
matchedPath = src/server/services/version.service.ts
matchedIdentity = npm:a2Nncm91dGVy:0.14.2
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 20. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/db/client.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/kcgrouter@0.16.0/src/db/client.ts>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = kcgrouter@0.14.2
matchedPath = src/db/client.ts
matchedIdentity = npm:a2Nncm91dGVy:0.14.2
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 21. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** src/cli/menu.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/kcgrouter@0.16.0/src/cli/menu.ts>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = kcgrouter@0.14.1
matchedIdentity = npm:a2Nncm91dGVy:0.14.1
similarity = 0.775
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 22
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 6
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 22

### Published dependency entries
- @clack/prompts ^1.7.0 (Dependency)
- @radix-ui/react-label ^2.1.7 (Dependency)
- @radix-ui/react-select ^2.2.6 (Dependency)
- @radix-ui/react-slot ^1.2.3 (Dependency)
- @simplewebauthn/browser 14.0.0 (Dependency)
- @simplewebauthn/server 14.0.3 (Dependency)
- bun-plugin-tailwind ^0.1.2 (Dependency)
- class-variance-authority ^0.7.1 (Dependency)
- clsx ^2.1.1 (Dependency)
- date-fns ^4.4.0 (Dependency)
- jsonc-parser ^3.3.1 (Dependency)
- lucide-react ^1 (Dependency)
- radix-ui ^1.6.7 (Dependency)
- react ^19 (Dependency)
- react-day-picker ^10.0.1 (Dependency)
- react-dom ^19 (Dependency)
- recharts 3.8.0 (Dependency)
- sonner ^2.0.7 (Dependency)
- systray2 ^2.1.4 (Dependency)
- tailwind-merge ^3.3.1 (Dependency)
- tailwindcss ^4.1.11 (Dependency)
- tw-animate-css ^1.4.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** kcgrouter
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.16.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-29T15:19:22.983Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-06T19:23:30.417Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-02T23:59:38.695Z
- **Known versions:** 36
- **Latest version:** 0.16.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Lightweight AI proxy gateway — route chat completions to upstream providers
- **Maintainers:** irsyadulibad
- **Keywords:** ai, proxy, gateway, llm, openai, anthropic, router
- **Runtime engines:** bun: \>=1.2.3
- **Artifact files:** 329
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 3,084,497 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/kcgrouter/v/0.16.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/forrealss/kcgrouter>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/forrealss/kcgrouter#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/forrealss/kcgrouter/issues>)
