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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/osborn/v/0.9.165"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/osborn/v/0.9.165.md"
package: "osborn"
report_status: "published"
title: "osborn@0.9.165 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.9.165"
---

# osborn@0.9.165 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 18 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Remote Code Execution
- **Selected version:** 0.9.165
- **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.

This is a critical runtime remote-code-execution exposure and an AI-agent persistence risk, not confirmed malicious package-install behavior. The appropriate upstream action is a warning pending remediation of authentication and pinned installation.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-14T04:19:44.493Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-14T04:20:41.635Z
- **Download time:** 263 ms
- **Static scan time:** 844 ms
- **AI review time:** 56034 ms
- **Total time:** 57142 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:** A running instance exposes an unauthenticated editor endpoint that can trigger a remote-script installer. It also persists generated Claude skill content in the user profile.

- **Trigger:** A request to GET /editor on a running agent when code-server is not installed, or a Claude compaction event.

- **Impact:** An attacker able to reach the agent API can cause execution of whatever the remote installer serves; generated content can persist in the user's Claude skills.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/index.js, dist/claude-llm.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-14T04:20:41.635Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Unauthenticated remote script execution and automatic Claude skill writes.

- **Rationale:** This is a critical runtime remote-code-execution exposure and an AI-agent persistence risk, not confirmed malicious package-install behavior. The appropriate upstream action is a warning pending remediation of authentication and pinned installation.

- **Files touched:** /workspace, ~/.claude/skills/decisions/SKILL.md, ~/.claude/skills/learned-behaviors/SKILL.md

- **Network endpoints:** https://code-server.dev/install.sh

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Critical Vulnerability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** The public editor route explicitly lacks an authentication gate and starts the IDE hook., Starting that hook downloads a remote shell script and pipes it to sh when code-server is absent., A compaction hook writes model-produced content into Claude skill files under the user home directory., The HTTP API permits cross-origin requests from any origin.

- **Evidence against:** The manifest has only a prepublish build hook, not an install-time lifecycle hook., There is no runtime dependency on osborn itself., The package is a voice coding agent, so its normal runtime use legitimately involves local files, subprocesses, and AI service APIs.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to osborn@0.9.165.

- Review the evidence and your use of osborn@0.9.165 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. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/osborn@0.9.165/bin/cli.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: 
L3: import { spawn } from 'child_process'
L4: import { fileURLToPath } from 'url'
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package source references shell execution.

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/jsonl-search.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/osborn@0.9.165/dist/jsonl-search.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L34: // @vscode/ripgrep bundles the rg binary — this is our own dependency
L35: const { rgPath } = require('@vscode/ripgrep');
L36: if (rgPath && existsSync(rgPath))
```

### 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. Critical: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/osborn@0.9.165/dist/index.js>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution with blocking evidence.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2456: const which = await new Promise((res) => {
L2457: const p = spawn('which', ['code-server']);
L2458: let out = '';
...
L2465: await new Promise((res, rej) => {
L2466: const install = spawn('sh', ['-c', 'curl -fsSL https://code-server.dev/install.sh | sh'], {
L2467: env: { ...process.env },
L2468: stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
```

### 10. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/osborn@0.9.165/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L11: setMaxListeners(50);
L12: import { createServer, request as httpRequest } from 'http';
L13: import { existsSync, readdirSync, readFileSync, mkdirSync, writeFileSync, mkdtempSync, cpSync, rmSync, statSync, utimesSync, createWriteStream } from 'node:fs';
...
L15: import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
L16: import { spawn } from 'node:child_process';
L17: import { randomUUID, randomBytes } from 'node:crypto';
...
L19: import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
L20: // 0.9.71: createRequire for resolving package.json versions inside ESM
L21: const __sdkVersionRequire = createRequire(import.meta.url);
...
L23: import { PassThrough } from 'node:stream';
L24: import { createGunzip } from 'node:zlib';
L25: // Resolve __dirname for this ESM module so we can find sibling files (e.g.
```

### 11. Critical: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/osborn@0.9.165/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2456: const which = await new Promise((res) => {
L2457: const p = spawn('which', ['code-server']);
L2458: let out = '';
L2459: p.stdout?.on('data', (d) => { out += d.toString(); });
L2460: p.on('close', () => res(out.trim()));
...
L2465: await new Promise((res, rej) => {
L2466: const install = spawn('sh', ['-c', 'curl -fsSL https://code-server.dev/install.sh | sh'], {
L2467: env: { ...process.env },
...
L2469: });
L2470: install.stdout?.on('data', (d) => process.stdout.write(d));
L2471: install.stderr?.on('data', (d) => process.stderr.write(d));
```

### 12. Critical: Download Execute
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/osborn@0.9.165/dist/index.js>)

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L11: setMaxListeners(50);
L12: import { createServer, request as httpRequest } from 'http';
L13: import { existsSync, readdirSync, readFileSync, mkdirSync, writeFileSync, mkdtempSync, cpSync, rmSync, statSync, utimesSync, createWriteStream } from 'node:fs';
...
L15: import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
L16: import { spawn } from 'node:child_process';
L17: import { randomUUID, randomBytes } from 'node:crypto';
...
L19: import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
L20: // 0.9.71: createRequire for resolving package.json versions inside ESM
L21: const __sdkVersionRequire = createRequire(import.meta.url);
...
L23: import { PassThrough } from 'node:stream';
L24: import { createGunzip } from 'node:zlib';
L25: // Resolve __dirname for this ESM module so we can find sibling files (e.g.
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 15. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** deploy.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/osborn@0.9.165/deploy.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = deploy.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 2309
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 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. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/session-access.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/osborn@0.9.165/dist/session-access.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%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 = 1
```

### 18. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/osborn@0.9.165/dist/index.js>)

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 = osborn@0.9.190
matchedIdentity = npm:b3Nib3Ju:0.9.190
similarity = 0.714
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 26
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 5
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 26

### Published dependency entries
- @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk ^0.2.91 (Dependency)
- @anthropic-ai/sdk ^0.80.0 (Dependency)
- @google/genai ^1.0.0 (Dependency)
- @livekit/agents 1.4.6 (Dependency)
- @livekit/agents-plugin-deepgram 1.4.6 (Dependency)
- @livekit/agents-plugin-elevenlabs 1.4.6 (Dependency)
- @livekit/agents-plugin-google 1.4.6 (Dependency)
- @livekit/agents-plugin-livekit 1.4.6 (Dependency)
- @livekit/agents-plugin-openai 1.4.6 (Dependency)
- @livekit/agents-plugin-silero 1.4.6 (Dependency)
- @livekit/rtc-node 0.13.29 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.29.0 (Dependency)
- @openai/codex-sdk ^0.77.0 (Dependency)
- @smithery/api ^0.48.0 (Dependency)
- @types/diff ^8.0.0 (Dependency)
- @vscode/ripgrep ^1.17.1 (Dependency)
- diff ^8.0.4 (Dependency)
- dotenv ^16.4.0 (Dependency)
- http-proxy ^1.18.1 (Dependency)
- livekit-server-sdk ^2.15.0 (Dependency)
- minisearch ^7.2.0 (Dependency)
- node-pty ^1.1.0 (Dependency)
- tsx ^4.0.0 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.19.0 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.3.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.3.6 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** osborn
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.9.165
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-01T14:09:30.128Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-14T17:37:21.330Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-22T22:54:24.518Z
- **Known versions:** 87
- **Latest version:** 0.9.267
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Voice AI coding assistant - local agent that connects to Osborn frontend
- **Author:** Osborn Ojure
- **Maintainers:** erriccc
- **Keywords:** voice, ai, coding, assistant, claude, livekit
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 82
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,145,890 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/osborn/v/0.9.165>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Erriccc/osborn>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/Erriccc/osborn#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Erriccc/osborn/issues>)
