---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/nginxforge-panel/v/1.0.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/nginxforge-panel/v/1.0.0.md"
package: "nginxforge-panel"
report_status: "published"
title: "nginxforge-panel@1.0.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.0"
---

# nginxforge-panel@1.0.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — The package can alter the consumer host and start persistent system services without an explicit setup command.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Install Hook Abuse
- **Selected version:** 1.0.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Installing the package in an interactive terminal launches a host-system installer automatically. It can install OS packages through sudo and enable Nginx or database services.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 96.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-01T12:51:40.738Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-01T12:52:38.484Z
- **Download time:** 504 ms
- **Static scan time:** 5617 ms
- **AI review time:** 51624 ms
- **Total time:** 57746 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Installing the package in an interactive terminal launches a host-system installer automatically. It can install OS packages through sudo and enable Nginx or database services.

- **Trigger:** npm, pnpm, or yarn installation with lifecycle scripts enabled in an interactive terminal.

- **Impact:** The package can alter the consumer host and start persistent system services without an explicit setup command.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.mjs, scripts/system-installer.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-01T12:52:38.484Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Postinstall-launched privileged system package installation and service activation.

- **Attack narrative:** The postinstall lifecycle hook launches the system installer automatically on an interactive package install. The installer treats absent tools as selected by default, invokes the operating-system package manager through sudo when needed, and enables services such as Nginx, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL. This gives a package installation unexpected authority to modify the host and establish services.

- **Rationale:** The package performs privileged, broad host mutation from an automatic npm lifecycle hook. Its interactive prompts do not make the initial install-time system setup an explicitly requested action.

- **Files touched:** scripts/postinstall.mjs, scripts/system-installer.mjs

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 96.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** The npm postinstall hook automatically starts a system installer when installation has a terminal., Missing tools are selected by default, including in non-interactive mode., The installer runs privileged OS package-manager commands and enables services., This is an unconsented install-time mutation of the host rather than an explicit setup command.

- **Evidence against:** No runtime dependency on this package name was found., The inspected install hook contains no credential collection or network request.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nginxforge-panel@1.0.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nginxforge-panel@1.0.0/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node 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. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nginxforge-panel@1.0.0/dist/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3662: gitArgs.push(cleanUrl, tmpFolder);
L3663: const { execFileSync: execFileSync10 } = await import("node:child_process");
L3664: execFileSync10("git", gitArgs, { timeout: 35e3 });
```

### 6. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nginxforge-panel@1.0.0/dist/index.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L9915: // server/aiAgent.ts
L9916: var execAsync = promisify2(exec);
L9917: function viewFileTool(slug, filePath, startLine, endLine, customPath) {
```

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

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

### 10. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nginxforge-panel@1.0.0/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L15: import express2 from "express";
L16: import { createServer } from "http";
L17: import net2 from "net";
...
L21: var ENV = {
L22: appId: process.env.VITE_APP_ID ?? "",
L23: cookieSecret: process.env.JWT_SECRET ?? "",
...
L36: if (!key) {
L37: res.status(400).send("Missing storage key");
L38: return;
...
L53: if (!forgeResp.ok) {
L54: const body = await forgeResp.text().catch(() => "");
L55: console.error(`[StorageProxy] forge error: ${forgeResp.status} ${body}`);
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 12. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nginxforge-panel@1.0.0/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L15: import express2 from "express";
L16: import { createServer } from "http";
L17: import net2 from "net";
...
L21: var ENV = {
L22: appId: process.env.VITE_APP_ID ?? "",
L23: cookieSecret: process.env.JWT_SECRET ?? "",
...
L36: if (!key) {
L37: res.status(400).send("Missing storage key");
L38: return;
...
L53: if (!forgeResp.ok) {
L54: const body = await forgeResp.text().catch(() => "");
L55: console.error(`[StorageProxy] forge error: ${forgeResp.status} ${body}`);
```

### 13. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nginxforge-panel@1.0.0/dist/index.js>)

Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration.
dist/index.js:
databaseUrl: process.env.DATABASE_URL ?? "",
headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${ENV.forgeApiKey}` }
var buildEndpointUrl = (baseUrl) => {
const normalizedBase = baseUrl.endsWith("/") ? baseUrl : `${baseUrl}/`;
message: "Notification service API key is not configured."
authorization: `Bearer ${ENV.forgeApiKey}`,
"Authorization": `Bearer ${agent.token}`
fs4.writeFileSync(certPath, customCert.trim() + "\n", "utf8");
```

### 14. Critical: Persistence Backdoor
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nginxforge-panel@1.0.0/dist/index.js>)

Source writes persistence or remote-access backdoor material.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L15: import express2 from "express";
L16: import { createServer } from "http";
L17: import net2 from "net";
...
L21: var ENV = {
L22: appId: process.env.VITE_APP_ID ?? "",
L23: cookieSecret: process.env.JWT_SECRET ?? "",
...
L36: if (!key) {
L37: res.status(400).send("Missing storage key");
L38: return;
...
L53: if (!forgeResp.ok) {
L54: const body = await forgeResp.text().catch(() => "");
L55: console.error(`[StorageProxy] forge error: ${forgeResp.status} ${body}`);
```

### 15. High: Remote Agent Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nginxforge-panel@1.0.0/dist/index.js>)

Source exposes local file and command tools to a remote model endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L23: cookieSecret: process.env.JWT_SECRET ?? "",
L24: databaseUrl: process.env.DATABASE_URL ?? "",
L25: oAuthServerUrl: process.env.OAUTH_SERVER_URL ?? "",
...
L3635: if (stat.size > 2 * 1024 * 1024) return null;
L3636: return fsSync.readFileSync(fullPath, "utf-8");
L3637: } catch {
...
L3662: gitArgs.push(cleanUrl, tmpFolder);
L3663: const { execFileSync: execFileSync10 } = await import("node:child_process");
L3664: execFileSync10("git", gitArgs, { timeout: 35e3 });
```

### 16. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nginxforge-panel@1.0.0/dist/index.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
L15: import express2 from "express";
L16: import { createServer } from "http";
L17: import net2 from "net";
...
L21: var ENV = {
L22: appId: process.env.VITE_APP_ID ?? "",
L23: cookieSecret: process.env.JWT_SECRET ?? "",
...
L36: if (!key) {
L37: res.status(400).send("Missing storage key");
L38: return;
...
L53: if (!forgeResp.ok) {
L54: const body = await forgeResp.text().catch(() => "");
L55: console.error(`[StorageProxy] forge error: ${forgeResp.status} ${body}`);
```

### 17. High: Trigger Reachable Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nginxforge-panel@1.0.0/dist/index.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches credential exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable credential exfiltration chain: scripts.start -> dist/index.js
L15: import express2 from "express";
L16: import { createServer } from "http";
L17: import net2 from "net";
...
L21: var ENV = {
L22: appId: process.env.VITE_APP_ID ?? "",
L23: cookieSecret: process.env.JWT_SECRET ?? "",
...
L36: if (!key) {
L37: res.status(400).send("Missing storage key");
L38: return;
...
L53: if (!forgeResp.ok) {
L54: const body = await forgeResp.text().catch(() => "");
L55: console.error(`[StorageProxy] forge error: ${forgeResp.status} ${body}`);
```

### 18. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nginxforge-panel@1.0.0/dist/index.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches persistence behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable persistence chain: scripts.start -> dist/index.js
L15: import express2 from "express";
L16: import { createServer } from "http";
L17: import net2 from "net";
...
L21: var ENV = {
L22: appId: process.env.VITE_APP_ID ?? "",
L23: cookieSecret: process.env.JWT_SECRET ?? "",
...
L36: if (!key) {
L37: res.status(400).send("Missing storage key");
L38: return;
...
L53: if (!forgeResp.ok) {
L54: const body = await forgeResp.text().catch(() => "");
L55: console.error(`[StorageProxy] forge error: ${forgeResp.status} ${body}`);
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 22. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** install.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nginxforge-panel@1.0.0/install.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = install.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 4263
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 23. 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.

### 24. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nginxforge-panel@1.0.0/dist/index.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 = nginxforge-panel@1.0.3
matchedPath = dist/index.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bmdpbnhmb3JnZS1wYW5lbA:1.0.3
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 25. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nginxforge-panel@1.0.0/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 = nginxforge-panel@1.0.5
matchedPath = scripts/postinstall.mjs
matchedIdentity = npm:bmdpbnhmb3JnZS1wYW5lbA:1.0.5
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 26. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** scripts/system-installer.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nginxforge-panel@1.0.0/scripts/system-installer.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 = nginxforge-panel@1.0.5
matchedPath = scripts/system-installer.mjs
matchedIdentity = npm:bmdpbnhmb3JnZS1wYW5lbA:1.0.5
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 27. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/public/assets/cytoscape.esm-DtBltrT8.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nginxforge-panel@1.0.0/dist/public/assets/cytoscape.esm-DtBltrT8.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 = nginxforge-panel@1.0.5
matchedPath = dist/public/assets/cytoscape.esm-DtBltrT8.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bmdpbnhmb3JnZS1wYW5lbA:1.0.5
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 28. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/public/assets/diagram-PSM6KHXK-DVKN-u96.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nginxforge-panel@1.0.0/dist/public/assets/diagram-PSM6KHXK-DVKN-u96.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 = nginxforge-panel@1.0.5
matchedPath = dist/public/assets/diagram-PSM6KHXK-DVKN-u96.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bmdpbnhmb3JnZS1wYW5lbA:1.0.5
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 29. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/public/assets/flowDiagram-NV44I4VS-mzGsMG3d.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nginxforge-panel@1.0.0/dist/public/assets/flowDiagram-NV44I4VS-mzGsMG3d.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 = nginxforge-panel@1.0.5
matchedPath = dist/public/assets/flowDiagram-NV44I4VS-mzGsMG3d.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bmdpbnhmb3JnZS1wYW5lbA:1.0.5
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 68
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 24
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 68

### Published dependency entries
- @aws-sdk/client-s3 ^3.693.0 (Dependency)
- @aws-sdk/s3-request-presigner ^3.693.0 (Dependency)
- @hookform/resolvers ^5.2.2 (Dependency)
- @monaco-editor/react ^4.7.0 (Dependency)
- @node-rs/argon2 ^2.1.0 (Dependency)
- @radix-ui/react-accordion ^1.2.12 (Dependency)
- @radix-ui/react-alert-dialog ^1.1.15 (Dependency)
- @radix-ui/react-aspect-ratio ^1.1.7 (Dependency)
- @radix-ui/react-avatar ^1.1.10 (Dependency)
- @radix-ui/react-checkbox ^1.3.3 (Dependency)
- @radix-ui/react-collapsible ^1.1.12 (Dependency)
- @radix-ui/react-context-menu ^2.2.16 (Dependency)
- @radix-ui/react-dialog ^1.1.15 (Dependency)
- @radix-ui/react-dropdown-menu ^2.1.16 (Dependency)
- @radix-ui/react-hover-card ^1.1.15 (Dependency)
- @radix-ui/react-label ^2.1.7 (Dependency)
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## Package metadata
- **Package:** nginxforge-panel
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-01T07:35:21.943Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-01T10:07:02.081Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-01T12:52:38.484Z
- **Known versions:** 6
- **Latest version:** 1.0.5
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Modern VPS Hosting Control Panel with Automated Nginx, Zero-Downtime Deployments, Let's Encrypt TLS, Multi-Tenant Database Management, and AI Copilot.
- **Keywords:** nginx, control-panel, hosting, cloudpanel, vps, devops, letsencrypt, nodejs, python, php, postgres, mysql
- **Artifact files:** 437
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 15,354,375 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/nginxforge-panel/v/1.0.0>)