---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/mano-coding"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/mano-coding/report.md"
package: "mano-coding"
report_status: "published"
title: "mano-coding@0.1.63 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.1.63"
---

# mano-coding@0.1.63 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — A malicious registry or package publisher could obtain the user’s npm token.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Credential Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 0.1.63
- **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: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The resolver’s global-token fallback is not scoped to the request host, and registry metadata can direct the subsequent tarball request to another host. That creates a concrete credential disclosure path when users resolve packages with an npm token in the environment.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-02T08:08:15.298Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-02T08:09:18.112Z
- **Download time:** 251 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3859 ms
- **AI review time:** 58704 ms
- **Total time:** 62814 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:** The npm resolver can disclose a global npm token to a host supplied as a package tarball URL.

- **Trigger:** A user invokes package resolution while a global npm token is set, and registry metadata supplies a tarball URL on another host.

- **Impact:** A malicious registry or package publisher could obtain the user’s npm token.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/bin.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-02T08:09:18.112Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The resolver falls back to environment tokens without host scoping, applies the result to the metadata-provided tarball URL, then sends it as an Authorization header.

- **Attack narrative:** During npm package resolution, the resolver takes the tarball URL from registry metadata and looks up authorization for it. If no host-matched npmrc credential applies, it falls back to a global npm token and the tarball downloader sends that value in an Authorization header. A registry or publisher that supplies a foreign tarball host could therefore capture the token.

- **Rationale:** The resolver’s global-token fallback is not scoped to the request host, and registry metadata can direct the subsequent tarball request to another host. That creates a concrete credential disclosure path when users resolve packages with an npm token in the environment.

- **Network endpoints:** https://registry.npmjs.org/, Registry metadata-provided dist.tarball URL (host not restricted in this flow)

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for block:** NPM\_TOKEN, NPM\_AUTH\_TOKEN, or MANO\_NPM\_AUTH\_TOKEN is used as a fallback without checking whether the request host matches the token’s registry., The npm resolver takes the tarball URL from registry metadata and resolves authorization for that URL., The tarball downloader sends the resolved authorization value in an HTTP Authorization header.

- **Evidence against:** The package has no lifecycle scripts; the risky flow is in the CLI’s package-resolution behavior., Authorization entries from npm configuration are scoped to the request host and path.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to mano-coding@0.1.63.

- Avoid installing mano-coding@0.1.63. Remove it from direct dependencies and check your lockfile for transitive copies.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
- If this version ran, investigate the affected machine and build environment. Rotate credentials it could access and rebuild from a trusted environment.

## Public findings

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mano-coding@0.1.63/dist/bin.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1159: var EventEmitter = __require("node:events").EventEmitter;
L1160: var childProcess = __require("node:child_process");
L1161: var path3 = __require("node:path");
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mano-coding@0.1.63/dist/bin.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1999: }
L2000: const execArgv = process4.execArgv ?? [];
L2001: if (execArgv.includes("-e") || execArgv.includes("--eval") || execArgv.includes("-p") || execArgv.includes("--print")) {
```

### 4. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mano-coding@0.1.63/dist/bin.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L14162: sourceCode = this.opts.code.process(sourceCode, sch);
L14163: const makeValidate = new Function(`${names_1.default.self}`, `${names_1.default.scope}`, sourceCode);
L14164: const validate = makeValidate(this, this.scope.get());
```

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/mano-coding.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mano-coding@0.1.63/bin/mano-coding.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: if (existsSync(fileURLToPath(bundledBin))) {
L7: await import(bundledBin.href);
L8: } else {
```

### 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: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mano-coding@0.1.63/dist/bin.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L72892: init_self_upgrade_pipeline();
L72893: DEFAULT_NPM_REGISTRY2 = "https://registry.npmjs.org";
L72894: }
...
L72897: // packages/cli/src/commands/auto-update.ts
L72898: import { spawn as spawn9 } from "node:child_process";
L72899: import { homedir as homedir8 } from "node:os";
...
L72901: async function scheduleAutoUpdateWorker(argv, currentVersion, options) {
L72902: const disabled = argv.includes("--offline") || Boolean(process.env["AICODING_NO_UPDATE_CHECK"]) || Boolean(process.env["CI"]) || argv[2] === "self-upgrade" || argv[2] === "_self-up...
L72903: if (disabled) return;
```

### 10. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mano-coding@0.1.63/dist/bin.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L49: * Constructs the CommanderError class
L50: * @param {number} exitCode suggested exit code which could be used with process.exit
L51: * @param {string} code an id string representing the error
...
L1159: var EventEmitter = __require("node:events").EventEmitter;
L1160: var childProcess = __require("node:child_process");
L1161: var path3 = __require("node:path");
...
L1209: this._outputConfiguration = {
L1210: writeOut: (str) => process4.stdout.write(str),
L1211: writeErr: (str) => process4.stderr.write(str),
...
L1248: * @returns {Command[]}
L1249: * @private
L1250: */
```

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 14. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mano-coding@0.1.63/dist/bin.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 = mano-coding@0.1.60
matchedPath = dist/bin.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bWFuby1jb2Rpbmc:0.1.60
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 15. High: Known Malware Source Fingerprint Signature
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mano-coding@0.1.63/dist/bin.js>)

Source fingerprint signature matches a known malicious package signature; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = malicious_source_fingerprint_signature
signature = f9e578a5da810e1e
signatureType = suspicious_hashes
sourceLabel = final_verdict:malicious
matchedPackage = mano-coding@0.1.60
matchedPath = dist/bin.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bWFuby1jb2Rpbmc:0.1.60
similarity = 1.000
shingleOverlap = 2
summary = package final verdict is malicious
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 12
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** mano-coding
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.1.63
- **Version published:** 2026-11-02T08:03:35.303Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-04T00:55:17.793Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-03T04:29:22.663Z
- **Known versions:** 28
- **Latest version:** 0.1.64
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Mano Coding CLI and toolchain
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22
- **Artifact files:** 15
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 3,174,307 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/mano-coding>)