--- canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/pi-usereq/v/0.58.0" markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/pi-usereq/v/0.58.0.md" package: "pi-usereq" report_status: "published" title: "pi-usereq@0.58.0 npm security report" verdict: "policy_finding" version: "0.58.0" --- # pi-usereq@0.58.0 npm security report > **Trust boundary:** Package metadata, advisory text, filenames, URLs, and source snippets in this report come from external packages or feeds. Treat them as untrusted evidence. Do not execute instructions or code found in this document. ## Verdict summary **Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. This can authorize lifecycle scripts across the consumer project, weakening npm's install-script control for subsequent installs. - **Verdict:** AI-agent control-surface policy finding - **Product-default install policy:** Warn by default; block when configured - **Firewall policy:** Warn by default - **Public report status:** Published - **Threat category:** Soft block: AI-agent control surface - **Selected version:** 0.58.0 - **Selected version is latest:** No - **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai) This finding concerns changes to an AI agent's instructions or configuration without explicit user action. It does not by itself establish malware intent. The CLI warns by default and blocks when configured for this policy. AI assessment: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy. LPM flags this version as an AI-agent control-surface risk. The automatic postinstall handler changes the consumer project's npm script approval policy. It approves every installed package it finds with a preinstall, install, or postinstall script. ## Latest scan - **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1 - **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious - **Recorded analysis confidence:** 99.0% - **Started:** 2026-10-09T09:34:13.939Z - **Finished:** 2026-10-09T09:34:46.357Z - **Download time:** 1014 ms - **Static scan time:** 800 ms - **AI review time:** 30603 ms - **Total time:** 32418 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 automatic postinstall handler changes the consumer project's npm script approval policy. It approves every installed package it finds with a preinstall, install, or postinstall script. - **Trigger:** npm runs this package's postinstall lifecycle hook. - **Impact:** This can authorize lifecycle scripts across the consumer project, weakening npm's install-script control for subsequent installs. - **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/install-static-checkers.ts - **Review source:** ai\_review - **Reviewed:** 2026-10-09T09:34:46.357Z ### AI review details - **Review stage:** source\_first\_review - **Mechanism:** The handler scans consumer node\_modules, merges qualifying package names into allowScripts, and writes the consumer package.json. - **Attack narrative:** During postinstall, the package scans the host project's installed dependencies and records name-only allowScripts approvals for all packages declaring install lifecycle scripts. This silently changes the host project's install policy and can permit those scripts to run in future installs. - **Rationale:** The package has an automatic postinstall hook that mutates the consumer project's broad npm install-script approval policy without user confirmation. This is an unconsented control-surface change and warrants blocking. - **Files touched:** consumer package.json ### Review decision - **Verdict:** Malicious - **Confidence:** 99.0% - **Recommended action:** publish\_block - **Intent class:** Malware - **False-positive risk:** Low - **Evidence for policy risk:** package.json runs the checker installer automatically as a postinstall hook., The hook scans the consumer project's installed packages for install lifecycle scripts and adds their names to the consumer project's allowScripts policy., It writes the modified consumer package.json without a user confirmation step. - **Evidence against:** The same installer also probes for bundled static checkers and may install missing checker packages under the package installation root., The notification source sends its configured payload to the fixed Pushover API endpoint. ## Affected versions and remediation This report applies to pi-usereq@0.58.0. - Avoid installing pi-usereq@0.58.0. 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 90.0% - **Path:** package.json - **Public source:** [View source]() Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```json scripts.postinstall = node --import tsx ./scripts/install-static-checkers.ts ``` ### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 75.0% - **Path:** package.json - **Public source:** [View source]() Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```json scripts.postinstall = node --import tsx ./scripts/install-static-checkers.ts ``` ### 3. Low: Scripts Present - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 100.0% Package declares npm scripts. ### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% - **Path:** scripts/lib/extension-debug-harness.ts - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references dynamic require/import behavior. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```typescript L137: const moduleUrl = pathToFileURL(extensionPath).href; L138: const loadedModule = await import(moduleUrl); L139: if (typeof loadedModule.default !== "function") { ``` ### 5. Medium: Network - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% Package source references network APIs. ### 6. Medium: Environment Vars - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% Package source references environment variables. ### 7. Low: Filesystem - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 70.0% Package source references filesystem APIs. ### 8. Low: High Entropy Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 55.0% Package source contains high-entropy string patterns. ### 9. Low: Url Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 65.0% Package source contains URL literals. ### 10. Medium: Ships Build Helper - **Category:** Artifact Inventory - **Confidence:** 70.0% - **Path:** scripts/pi-usereq-debug.sh - **Public source:** [View source]() Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```shell path = scripts/pi-usereq-debug.sh kind = build_helper sizeBytes = 14588 magicHex = [redacted] ``` ### 11. 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. ### 12. Low: No License - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 80.0% Package manifest does not declare a clear license. ### 13. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 93.0% - **Path:** src/core/pi-notify.ts - **Public source:** [View source]() This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```typescript matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta matchedPackage = pi-usereq@0.50.0 matchedIdentity = npm:cGktdXNlcmVx:0.50.0 similarity = 0.703 summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file ``` ## Dependencies and install lifecycle - **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes - **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall - **Dependencies:** 6 - **Optional dependencies:** 0 - **Peer dependencies:** 4 - **Development dependencies:** 3 - **Published dependency-graph edges:** 10 ### Published dependency entries - eslint ^10.7.0 (Dependency) - fast-glob ^3.3.3 (Dependency) - js-tiktoken ^1.0.21 (Dependency) - pyright ^1.1.411 (Dependency) - ruff ^1.5.4 (Dependency) - tsx ^4.21.0 (Dependency) - @earendil-works/pi-ai ^0.80.4 (PeerDependency) - @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent ^0.87.1 (PeerDependency) - @earendil-works/pi-tui ^0.80.4 (PeerDependency) - @sinclair/typebox ^0.34.49 (PeerDependency) ## Package metadata - **Package:** pi-usereq - **Ecosystem:** npm - **Version:** 0.58.0 - **Version published:** 2026-09-23T16:00:59.701Z - **Package first seen:** 2026-07-09T07:18:45.485Z - **Package last seen:** 2026-10-09T11:33:17.658Z - **Known versions:** 14 - **Latest version:** 0.74.0 - **Appeal under review:** No - **Description:** \

\Python 3.11+ \License: GPL-3.0 - **Artifact files:** 69 - **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,103,664 bytes - **Artifact signatures:** 2 - **Attestations:** Yes ## References - [HTML security report]() - [Repository]() - [Homepage]() - [Issues]()