---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/pennyrouter/v/0.2.27"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/pennyrouter/v/0.2.27.md"
package: "pennyrouter"
report_status: "published"
title: "pennyrouter@0.2.27 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.2.27"
---

# pennyrouter@0.2.27 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 12 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.2.27
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

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.

Static analysis flagged 12 finding(s) at 93.0% confidence. This version is warn-only unless an AI or security-team review confirms malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 93.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-22T16:31:59.596Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-22T16:32:00.606Z
- **Download time:** 255 ms
- **Static scan time:** 753 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 1010 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

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to pennyrouter@0.2.27.

- Review the evidence and your use of pennyrouter@0.2.27 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: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

### 4. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** src/launch.test.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pennyrouter@0.2.27/src/launch.test.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L28: async function main() {
L29: if (!(["darwin", "linux"].includes(process.platform))) {
L30: console.log("launch.test.js: skipped on unsupported platform");
...
L34: const root = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "pr-launch-test-"));
L35: const previous = Object.fromEntries(ENV_KEYS.map((key) => [key, process.env[key]]));
L36: const home = path.join(root, "home");
...
L45: fs.writeFileSync(path.join(home, ".codex", "config.toml"), nativeCodex);
L46: fs.writeFileSync(path.join(home, ".zshrc"), "# user setting\n");
L47: 
...
L74: apiKey: "pr-super-secret",
L75: gatewayBaseUrl: "https://gateway.example/",
L76: subscriptionAuth: true,
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 6. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** src/harnesses/codegpt.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pennyrouter@0.2.27/src/harnesses/codegpt.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L2: 
...
L56: console.log("  Open CodeGPT settings and remove or replace the PennyRouter provider:");
L57: console.log("  - Base URL: https://api.pennyrouter.com/v1");
L58: console.log("  - API Key: pr-...");
...
L64: const commands =
L65: process.platform === "darwin"
L66: ? [["pbcopy"]]
L67: : process.platform === "win32"
```

### 7. High: External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** src/statusline.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pennyrouter@0.2.27/src/statusline.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Runtime or CLI code links a write operation to an explicit external AI-agent control path:
code (installed by \`pennyrouter install\`).
// prints: [wrapped original statusline (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 =
```

### 8. High: Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** src/launch.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pennyrouter@0.2.27/src/launch.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-trigger-reachable source links an external AI-agent control path to a behavior-bearing write operation.
import { spawn, spawnsync } from "node:child_process";
import {
  chmod,
  cp,
  mkdir,
  rm,
  stat,
  unlink,
  writefile,
} from "node:fs/promises";
import { constants as osconstants } from "node:os";
import { fileurltopath } from "node:url";
import { basename, dirname, join, resolve } from "node:path";

import { configureclaudecodestatusline } from "./statusline.js";
import { upgradeclaudecodemodelvalue, [redacted] } from "./harnesses/claude-code.js";
import { atomicwrite, homedir, readjsonfile, readtext } from "./state.js";

const config_version = 1;
const path_start = "# >>> pennyrouter path >>>";
const path_end = "# <<< pennyrouter path <<<";
const codex_profile_marker =
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 11. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

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

### 12. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** src/launch.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pennyrouter@0.2.27/src/launch.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 = pennyrouter@0.2.26
matchedIdentity = npm:cGVubnlyb3V0ZXI:0.2.26
similarity = 0.900
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

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

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** pennyrouter
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.2.27
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-22T16:27:23.615Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-11T23:23:52.875Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-16T22:54:37.642Z
- **Known versions:** 69
- **Latest version:** 0.3.73
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Install and manage PennyRouter local coding-agent integrations.
- **Maintainers:** jon\_duke
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 33
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 282,824 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/pennyrouter/v/0.2.27>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/jduke99/pennyrouter-cli>)
- [Homepage](<https://pennyrouter.com/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/jduke99/pennyrouter-cli/issues>)