registry / Credential exfiltration / pennyrouter

pennyrouter

Install and manage PennyRouter local coding-agent integrations.

This report shows the evidence for pennyrouter@0.3.68. 1 of 69 known versions is blocked or flagged. The newest version, 0.3.73, is allowed. See all versions.

AI Security Review

scanned 6d ago · by lpm-firewall-ai

The launcher discloses a saved third-party service token to a package-selected gateway without recipient-specific confirmation. This is concrete credential exfiltration, so publication should be blocked.

Static reason

One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source

Trigger

Running penny claude with subscription mode enabled when the gateway does not already link the signed-in account.

Impact

The gateway receives a credential that can provide access to the user's Claude account.

Mechanism

The launcher reads the saved OAuth access token and posts it to the configured gateway; the default gateway is api.pennyrouter.com.

Attack narrative

When subscription mode is active, penny claude checks whether the signed-in Claude account is linked to the PennyRouter key. If it is not, the package reads Claude Code’s saved OAuth access token and posts it to the configured gateway, which defaults to api.pennyrouter.com. The source shows no recipient-specific confirmation before this transfer.

AI rationale

Evidence

src/claude-signin.jssrc/launch.jssrc/cli.js~/.claude/.credentials.json

Network endpoints1

api.pennyrouter.com

Decision evidence

public snapshot

AI called this Malicious at 91.0% confidence as Malware with low false-positive risk.

Evidence for block

src/claude-signin.js reads Claude Code’s saved OAuth access token.
When the gateway is not already linked to the account, the code sends that token in a POST request as access_token.
The penny claude launch path calls the account-link flow for subscription mode and passes it the configured gateway.
The configured gateway defaults to https://api.pennyrouter.com.

Evidence against

Behavioral surface

Source

ChildProcessCryptoEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShellWebSocket

Supply chain

HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings

ManifestNo manifest risk signals triggered.

scanned 72 file(s), 580 KB of source, external domains: 127.0.0.1, api.pennyrouter.com, app.example, chatgpt.com, gateway.example, gateway.example.com, gateway.internal.example.com, gateway.invalid, gw.example, new.example, old.example, opencode.ai, openrouter.example.test, other.example, pennyrouter.com, private.example, private.example.test, proxy.example.com, www.perplexity.ai, www.w3.org

Source & flagged code

7 flagged

src/launch.test.jsView file

Lines 1-21javascript

1import assert from "node:assert/strict";

2import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";

3import fs from "node:fs";

Medium

Install Persistence

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

src/launch.test.jsView on unpkg · L1

4import os from "node:os";

5import path from "node:path";

7import {

8 buildPennyInvocation,

9 claudeDesktopConfigLibraryPath,

10 claudeDesktopCredentialHelperPath,

11 claudeLaunchSettingsPath,

12 claudeUserSkillPath,

13 codexLaunchProfilePath,

14 codexModelCatalogPath,

15 configureClaudeDesktopProfile,

16 createCodexDesktopHome,

17 configurePennyHarness,

18 fileMode,

19 installPennyCompare,

20 installPennyRuntime,

21 isClaudeDesktopRunning,

src/harnesses/codegpt.jsView file

Lines 1-21javascript

1import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";

High

Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

src/harnesses/codegpt.jsView on unpkg · L1

3export const codeGptHarness = {

4 id: "codegpt",

src/statusline.jsView file

•Runtime or CLI code links a write operation to an explicit external AI-agent control path: tatusline (all lines) |] penny segment (penny / penny (sub) // / penny (byok) / penny off). the wrapped statusline's first line gets the penny suffix; // any further lines (e.g. a context bar) pass through verbatim. // never blocks on the network: reads a per-session cache and refreshes it detached. import { readfilesync, mkdirsync, writefilesync, statsync } from "node:fs"; import { spawn, spawnsync } from "node:child_process"; import { join, basename } from "node:path"; import os from "node:os"; const statedir = join( process.env.xdg_state_home || join(os.homedir(), ".local", "state"), "pennyrouter", ); const cachedir = join(statedir, "statusline-cache"); const titlesessionfile = process.env.pe

High

External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation

Runtime or CLI source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

src/statusline.jsView on unpkg

src/launch.jsView file

•Manifest-trigger-reachable source links an external AI-agent control path to a behavior-bearing write operation. export function pennydatadir() { if (process.platform === "win32") { return join(process.env.localappdata || process.env.appdata || homedir(), "pennyrouter"); } return join(process.env.xdg_data_home || join(homedir(), ".local", "share"), "pennyrouter"); } export function pennyruntimedir() { return join(pennydatadir(), "runtime"); } export function pennycomparedir() { return join(pennydatadir(), "compare"); } export function pennybindir() { if (process.platform === "win32") return join(pennydatadir(), "bin"); return join(homedir(), ".local", "bin"); } export function pennyshimpath() { return join(pennybindir(), process.platform === "win32" ? "penny.cmd" :

High

Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation

Manifest-trigger-reachable source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

src/launch.jsView on unpkg

standalone/web-demo/local-wire.pyView file

•path = standalone/web-demo/local-wire.py kind = build_helper sizeBytes = 2918 magicHex = [redacted]

Medium

Ships Build Helper

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

standalone/web-demo/local-wire.pyView on unpkg

src/claude-signin.js#virtual:normalized:round1View file

•stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 3

High

Semantic Analysis Limited

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

src/claude-signin.js#virtual:normalized:round1View on unpkg

standalone/web-demo/server.mjsView file

•matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta matchedPackage = pennyrouter@0.3.64 matchedIdentity = npm:cGVubnlyb3V0ZXI:0.3.64 similarity = 0.877 summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file

High

Previous Version Dangerous Delta

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

standalone/web-demo/server.mjsView on unpkg

Source & flagged code

7 flagged · loading source

src/launch.test.jsView file

1import assert from "node:assert/strict"; L2: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process"; L3: import fs from "node:fs"; ... L56: async function main() { L57: if (!(["darwin", "linux"].includes(process.platform))) { L58: console.log("launch.test.js: skipped on unsupported platform"); ... L62: const root = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "pr-launch-test-")); L63: const previous = Object.fromEntries(ENV_KEYS.map((key) => [key, process.env[key]])); L64: const home = path.join(root, "home"); ... L70: }, null, 2)}\n`; L71: const nativeCodex = 'model = "native-model"\n\nmodel_provider = "pennyrouter"\n\n[model_providers.pennyrouter]\nname = "PennyRouter"\nbase_url = "http://localhost:8400/v1"\n'; L72: fs.writeFileSync(path.join(home, ".claude", "settings.json"), nativeClaude);

Medium

Install Persistence

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

src/launch.test.jsView on unpkg · L1

src/harnesses/codegpt.jsView file

1import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process"; L2: ... L52: L53: // The record carries the base URL this install actually wrote, so a private/self-hosted L54: // gateway is named here instead of the hosted default the user never configured. ... L58: console.log(" Open CodeGPT settings and remove or replace the PennyRouter provider:"); L59: console.log(` - Base URL: ${record?.changes?.base_url || "https://api.pennyrouter.com/v1"}`); L60: console.log(" - API Key: pr-..."); ... L66: const commands = L67: process.platform === "darwin" L68: ? [["pbcopy"]] L69: : process.platform === "win32"

Findings

5 High5 Medium4 Low

HighSandbox Evasion Gated Capabilitysrc/harnesses/codegpt.js

HighExternal Ai Agent Control Surface Mutationsrc/statusline.js

HighTrigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutationsrc/launch.js

HighSemantic Analysis Limitedsrc/claude-signin.js#virtual:normalized:round1

HighPrevious Version Dangerous Deltastandalone/web-demo/server.mjs

MediumNetwork

MediumEnvironment Vars

MediumInstall Persistencesrc/launch.test.js

MediumShips Build Helperstandalone/web-demo/local-wire.py

MediumStructural Risk Force Deep Review

LowScripts Present

LowFilesystem

LowHigh Entropy Strings

Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to pennyrouter@0.3.68.

The versions list below shows the verdict for each recorded version.

Avoid installing pennyrouter@0.3.68. 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.

Evidence last updated: 2026-10-16 22:51:26.470Z (UTC).

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Versions

69 known versions

0.3.73latestClean—AllowPublishedOct 16, 2026, 8:53 PM 0.3.72Clean—AllowPublishedOct 16, 2026, 6:11 PM 0.3.71Clean—AllowPublishedOct 15, 2026, 10:23 PM 0.3.70Clean—AllowPublishedOct 15, 2026, 8:43 PM

AI Security Review

Decision evidence

Source & flagged code

Source & flagged code

Findings

Affected versions and remediation

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