---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/qwenproxy-cli"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/qwenproxy-cli/v/1.6.0.md"
package: "qwenproxy-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "qwenproxy-cli@1.6.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.6.0"
---

# qwenproxy-cli@1.6.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Remote conversations older than seven days can be deleted without an explicit deletion request from the account owner.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Destructive Action
- **Selected version:** 1.6.0
- **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: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Although this is runtime behavior rather than an install hook, the default startup path deletes remote account conversations without an explicit deletion request. The source verifies a concrete destructive account action.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 96.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-25T21:33:24.556Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-25T21:39:42.739Z
- **Download time:** 761 ms
- **Static scan time:** 5610 ms
- **AI review time:** 371811 ms
- **Total time:** 378183 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:** On normal server startup, the package schedules remote deletion of old conversations for active Qwen accounts. The cleanup is enabled by default.

- **Trigger:** Starting the gateway server with the default configuration.

- **Impact:** Remote conversations older than seven days can be deleted without an explicit deletion request from the account owner.

- **Evidence paths:** src/core/config.ts, src/api/server.ts, src/services/chat-cleanup.ts, src/services/qwen.ts, src/services/qwen-url.ts

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-25T21:39:42.739Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** A delayed cleanup checks remote chats against an age threshold and sends DELETE requests for eligible records, skipping session-bound chats and busy accounts.

- **Attack narrative:** Server initialization schedules remote chat cleanup, enabled by default, for active Qwen accounts. After a delay, it deletes chats older than the configured threshold, which defaults to seven days. The operation uses the account's Qwen session and proceeds without an explicit request to delete those chats.

- **Rationale:** Although this is runtime behavior rather than an install hook, the default startup path deletes remote account conversations without an explicit deletion request. The source verifies a concrete destructive account action.

- **Network endpoints:** https://chat.qwen.ai

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 96.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for block:** Server startup schedules the chat cleanup during initialization., The cleanup is enabled by default, and its default age threshold is 168 hours., After a delay, the scheduler runs cleanup for active accounts; it skips chats bound to active sessions and deletes chats that exceed the age threshold, while yielding to busy accounts., The deletion routine sends a DELETE request for the remote Qwen chat record. The default Qwen host is chat.qwen.ai., The cleanup is limited to old chats and skips session-bound chats or accounts with active requests, but it runs without an explicit deletion request.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to qwenproxy-cli@1.6.0.

- Avoid installing qwenproxy-cli@1.6.0. 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. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/update.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/qwenproxy-cli@1.6.0/bin/update.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L7: 
L8: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L9: import fs from "node:fs";
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/update.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/qwenproxy-cli@1.6.0/bin/update.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L91: encoding: "utf-8",
L92: shell: true,
L93: timeout: 30000,
```

### 4. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/delete-chats.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/qwenproxy-cli@1.6.0/dist/delete-chats.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L25: function getOsGlobalDataDir(options) {
L26: const currentPlatform = options?.platform || process.platform;
L27: const home = options?.homeDir || os.homedir();
L28: if (currentPlatform === "win32") {
L29: const winPath = path.win32 || path;
L30: const appData = options?.appData || process.env.APPDATA || winPath.join(home, "AppData", "Roaming");
L31: return winPath.join(appData, "qwenproxy");
...
L54: platform: options?.platform,
L55: appData: options?.appData,
L56: homeDir: options?.homeDir,
...
L107: if (fs2.existsSync(KEY_PATH)) {
L108: cachedKey = Buffer.from(fs2.readFileSync(KEY_PATH, "utf-8"), "hex");
```

### 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. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/qwenproxy.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/qwenproxy-cli@1.6.0/bin/qwenproxy.js>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L163: const cmd = process.platform === "win32" ? "npx.cmd" : "npx";
L164: return spawnSync(cmd, ["--yes", "patchright", "install", "chromium"], {
L165: stdio: "inherit",
...
L169: 
L170: let chosenHost = process.env.PLAYWRIGHT_DOWNLOAD_HOST;
L171: if (!chosenHost) {
...
L175: try {
L176: const probe = await fetch("https://cdn.playwright.dev", { method: "HEAD", signal: controller.signal });
L177: clearTimeout(probeTimer);
```

### 9. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/qwenproxy-cli@1.6.0/dist/index.js>)

Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L55: function getOsGlobalDataDir(options) {
L56: const currentPlatform = options?.platform || process.platform;
L57: const home = options?.homeDir || os.homedir();
L58: if (currentPlatform === "win32") {
L59: const winPath = path.win32 || path;
L60: const appData = options?.appData || process.env.APPDATA || winPath.join(home, "AppData", "Roaming");
L61: return winPath.join(appData, "qwenproxy");
...
L84: platform: options?.platform,
L85: appData: options?.appData,
L86: homeDir: options?.homeDir,
...
L354: MID_STREAM_FAILOVER_BUSY_MS: z.string().default("60000"),
L355: QWEN_BASE_URL: z.string().default("https://chat.qwen.ai"),
```

### 10. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** bin/qwenproxy.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/qwenproxy-cli@1.6.0/bin/qwenproxy.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L15: */
L16: process.env.DOTENV_CONFIG_QUIET = "true";
L17: 
L18: import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L19: import path from "node:path";
...
L24: const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
L25: const __dirname = path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
L26: const packageRoot = path.resolve(__dirname, "..");
L27: const packageJsonPath = path.join(packageRoot, "package.json");
L28: 
...
L34: try {
L35: const pkg = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(packageJsonPath, "utf-8"));
```

### 11. High: Cloud Metadata Access
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/qwenproxy-cli@1.6.0/dist/index.js>)

Source reaches cloud instance metadata or link-local credential endpoints.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L55: function getOsGlobalDataDir(options) {
L56: const currentPlatform = options?.platform || process.platform;
L57: const home = options?.homeDir || os.homedir();
L58: if (currentPlatform === "win32") {
L59: const winPath = path.win32 || path;
L60: const appData = options?.appData || process.env.APPDATA || winPath.join(home, "AppData", "Roaming");
L61: return winPath.join(appData, "qwenproxy");
...
L84: platform: options?.platform,
L85: appData: options?.appData,
L86: homeDir: options?.homeDir,
...
L354: MID_STREAM_FAILOVER_BUSY_MS: z.string().default("60000"),
L355: QWEN_BASE_URL: z.string().default("https://chat.qwen.ai"),
```

### 12. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** bin/qwenproxy.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/qwenproxy-cli@1.6.0/bin/qwenproxy.js>)

Source spawns a local helper that also contains network and dynamic execution context; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Cross-file remote execution chain: bin/qwenproxy.js spawns dist/clean-cache.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L15: */
L16: process.env.DOTENV_CONFIG_QUIET = "true";
L17: 
L18: import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L19: import path from "node:path";
...
L24: const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
L25: const __dirname = path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
L26: const packageRoot = path.resolve(__dirname, "..");
L27: const packageJsonPath = path.join(packageRoot, "package.json");
L28: 
...
L34: try {
L35: const pkg = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(packageJsonPath, "utf-8"));
```

### 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: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

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

### 16. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/clean-cache.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/qwenproxy-cli@1.6.0/dist/clean-cache.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 = qwenproxy-cli@1.4.3
matchedIdentity = npm:cXdlbnByb3h5LWNsaQ:1.4.3
similarity = 0.767
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 9
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 4
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 9

### Published dependency entries
- @hono/node-server ^2.1.1 (Dependency)
- ali-oss ^6.23.0 (Dependency)
- better-sqlite3 ^13.0.3 (Dependency)
- dotenv ^18.0.4 (Dependency)
- hono ^4.13.9 (Dependency)
- patchright 1.63.0 (Dependency)
- tsx ^4.23.15 (Dependency)
- uuid ^14.0.2 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.6.5 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** qwenproxy-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.6.0
- **License:** ISC
- **Version published:** 2026-10-03T06:58:53.053Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-08T15:18:43.935Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-29T01:45:09.228Z
- **Known versions:** 51
- **Latest version:** 1.6.10
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** High-performance OpenAI & Anthropic compatible API gateway for Qwen with multi-account rotation, interactive TUI, and resilient tool calling.
- **Author:** johngbl
- **Keywords:** qwen, proxy, openai, anthropic, claude-code, codex, opencode, tui, patchright, playwright, llm
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22
- **Artifact files:** 133
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 4,238,143 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/qwenproxy-cli/v/1.6.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/johngbl/qwenproxy.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/johngbl/qwenproxy#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/johngbl/qwenproxy/issues>)