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

# relia-sdk@0.2.27 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. Unconsented interception and external disclosure of AI prompts, answers, and tool-step data.

- **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:** 0.2.27
- **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. Installing the package automatically modifies a consumer Next.js configuration to replace the ai module with Relia's proxy. The proxy captures AI call content and reports it remotely.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 98.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-09T11:11:11.102Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-09T11:12:46.223Z
- **Download time:** 511 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1424 ms
- **AI review time:** 93185 ms
- **Total time:** 95121 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:** Installing the package automatically modifies a consumer Next.js configuration to replace the ai module with Relia's proxy. The proxy captures AI call content and reports it remotely.

- **Trigger:** npm postinstall in a project using Next.js and ai, followed by an AI SDK call

- **Impact:** Unconsented interception and external disclosure of AI prompts, answers, and tool-step data.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/postinstall.cjs, dist/next-setup.cjs, dist/agent/ai-bridge.cjs, dist/agent/core.cjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-09T11:12:46.223Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** postinstall AI-module alias injection and telemetry proxying

- **Attack narrative:** During npm installation, the package detects a consumer Next.js project and rewrites its configuration. If the project has the ai dependency, it aliases ai to relia-sdk/ai-bridge without a user command or consent. That bridge wraps normal AI SDK generation calls, constructs records containing prompts and answers, and posts them to Relia's remote endpoint.

- **Rationale:** This is an unconsented postinstall mutation of a foreign AI-agent control surface that redirects application imports into a proxy which exfiltrates AI content. The behavior is concrete and automatic, not merely a user-invoked observability setup.

- **Files touched:** package.json, next.config.ts, next.config.mjs, next.config.js, next.config.cjs

- **Network endpoints:** https://devreliaapi.tryrelia.com/api/v1/agents/runs

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 98.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for policy risk:** npm postinstall automatically loads the installer., The installer silently rewrites a detected Next.js project's configuration when the ai package is present., The injected alias redirects all ai imports to this package's bridge., The bridge wraps generateText and streamText calls., Captured prompts, answers, and step data are posted to a Relia endpoint.

- **Evidence against:** The CLI's credential prompts are user-invoked., The fetch auto-initializer has an environment-variable gate, but the injected ai bridge does not.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to relia-sdk@0.2.27.

- Avoid installing relia-sdk@0.2.27. 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](<https://unpkg.com/relia-sdk@0.2.27/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node -e "if (require('fs').existsSync('./dist/postinstall.cjs')) require('./dist/postinstall.cjs');"
```

### 2. Critical: Red Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 95.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/relia-sdk@0.2.27/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script matches a deterministic static-gate block pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node -e "if (require('fs').existsSync('./dist/postinstall.cjs')) require('./dist/postinstall.cjs');"
```

### 3. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/node.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/relia-sdk@0.2.27/dist/node.cjs>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: exports.start = start;
L7: const auto_instrumentations_node_1 = require("@opentelemetry/auto-instrumentations-node");
L8: const exporter_trace_otlp_http_1 = require("@opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-http");
```

### 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: Browser Session Account Hijack
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/relia-sdk@0.2.27/dist/index.js>)

Browser source reuses an authenticated session to collect identity data and mutate account settings while reporting externally.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L725: }
L726: const Fo = /url\((?:(')([^']*)'|(")(.*?)"|([^)]*))\)/gm, Uo = /^(?:[a-z+]+:)?\/\//i, zo = /^www\..*/i, Bo = /^(data:)([^,]*),(.*)/i;
L727: function yt(e, t) {
...
L2024: function f(i) {
L2025: return Buffer ? Buffer.from(i, "base64").toString() : window.atob(i);
L2026: }
...
L3227: } catch (i) {
L3228: throw process.env.NODE_ENV !== "production" && i.name === "CssSyntaxError" && l && l.from && (/\.scss$/i.test(l.from) ? i.message += `
L3229: You tried to parse SCSS with the standard CSS parser; try again with the postcss-scss parser` : /\.sass/i.test(l.from) ? i.message += `
...
L3740: x + `: postcss.plugin was deprecated. Migration guide:
L3741: https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/postcss-8-plugin-migration`
L3742: ), process.env.LANG && process.env.LANG.startsWith("cn") &&
```

### 9. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/relia-sdk@0.2.27/dist/cli.cjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L23: exports.main = main;
L24: const node_child_process_1 = require("node:child_process");
L25: const node_fs_1 = __importDefault(require("node:fs"));
...
L32: const next_setup_cjs_1 = require("./next-setup.cjs");
L33: exports.DEFAULT_API_BASE = "https://devreliaapi.tryrelia.com";
L34: exports.DEFAULT_OTLP_ENDPOINT = "https://devotel.tryrelia.com/v1/traces";
...
L42: try {
L43: return JSON.parse(node_fs_1.default.readFileSync(node_path_1.default.resolve(p), "utf8"));
L44: }
...
L55: };
L56: const AUTH_FILE_PATH = node_path_1.default.join(node_os_1.default.homedir(), ".relia", "auth.json");
L57: function getStoredCliAuth() {
```

### 10. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/relia-sdk@0.2.27/dist/cli.cjs>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: manifest.exports -> dist/cli.cjs
L23: exports.main = main;
L24: const node_child_process_1 = require("node:child_process");
L25: const node_fs_1 = __importDefault(require("node:fs"));
...
L32: const next_setup_cjs_1 = require("./next-setup.cjs");
L33: exports.DEFAULT_API_BASE = "https://devreliaapi.tryrelia.com";
L34: exports.DEFAULT_OTLP_ENDPOINT = "https://devotel.tryrelia.com/v1/traces";
...
L42: try {
L43: return JSON.parse(node_fs_1.default.readFileSync(node_path_1.default.resolve(p), "utf8"));
L44: }
...
L55: };
L56: const AUTH_FILE_PATH = node_path_1.default.join(node_os_1.default.homedir(), ".relia", "auth.json");
L57: function getStoredCliAuth() {
```

### 11. High: Trigger Reachable Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/relia-sdk@0.2.27/dist/cli.cjs>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches credential exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable credential exfiltration chain: manifest.exports -> dist/cli.cjs
L23: exports.main = main;
L24: const node_child_process_1 = require("node:child_process");
L25: const node_fs_1 = __importDefault(require("node:fs"));
...
L32: const next_setup_cjs_1 = require("./next-setup.cjs");
L33: exports.DEFAULT_API_BASE = "https://devreliaapi.tryrelia.com";
L34: exports.DEFAULT_OTLP_ENDPOINT = "https://devotel.tryrelia.com/v1/traces";
...
L42: try {
L43: return JSON.parse(node_fs_1.default.readFileSync(node_path_1.default.resolve(p), "utf8"));
L44: }
...
L55: };
L56: const AUTH_FILE_PATH = node_path_1.default.join(node_os_1.default.homedir(), ".relia", "auth.json");
L57: function getStoredCliAuth() {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 13. Low: Telemetry
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

### 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. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/auto.cjs\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/relia-sdk@0.2.27/dist/auto.cjs%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
```

### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/agent/core.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/relia-sdk@0.2.27/dist/agent/core.cjs>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = relia-sdk@0.2.26
matchedPath = dist/agent/core.cjs
matchedIdentity = npm:cmVsaWEtc2Rr:0.2.26
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 18. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/auto.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/relia-sdk@0.2.27/dist/auto.cjs>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = relia-sdk@0.2.26
matchedPath = dist/auto.cjs
matchedIdentity = npm:cmVsaWEtc2Rr:0.2.26
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 9
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 5
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 9

### Published dependency entries
- @opentelemetry/api ^1.9.1 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/auto-instrumentations-node ^0.79.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-http ^0.221.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/instrumentation-express ^0.69.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/instrumentation-http ^0.221.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/resources ^2.10.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/sdk-node ^0.221.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/semantic-conventions ^1.43.0 (Dependency)
- rrweb ^2.0.0-alpha.14 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** relia-sdk
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.2.27
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-09T11:09:01.596Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-04T07:19:26.887Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-02T11:20:35.023Z
- **Known versions:** 21
- **Latest version:** 0.2.47
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Zero-config observability SDK for \[RELIA\](https://github.com/relia-platform). Instruments Node.js services, browser sessions, and AI agents with a single CLI command.
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 87
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,502,795 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/relia-sdk/v/0.2.27>)
