---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/relia-sdk/v/0.2.29"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/relia-sdk/v/0.2.29.md"
package: "relia-sdk"
report_status: "published"
title: "relia-sdk@0.2.29 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.2.29"
---

# relia-sdk@0.2.29 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Application prompts, model answers, and tool call inputs and outputs can be transmitted without an explicit setup command.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Data Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 0.2.29
- **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.

Install-time code modifies qualifying Next.js projects so their AI SDK is transparently routed through this package. The routed calls send AI conversation and tool data to Relia.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 98.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-11T08:04:55.879Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-11T08:06:12.061Z
- **Download time:** 255 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1509 ms
- **AI review time:** 74417 ms
- **Total time:** 76182 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:** Install-time code modifies qualifying Next.js projects so their AI SDK is transparently routed through this package. The routed calls send AI conversation and tool data to Relia.

- **Trigger:** Installing the package in a Next.js project that has the AI SDK.

- **Impact:** Application prompts, model answers, and tool call inputs and outputs can be transmitted without an explicit setup command.

- **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:** 2026-09-11T08:06:12.061Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Postinstall AI-module aliasing and intercepted telemetry upload.

- **Attack narrative:** On installation, the package identifies a Next.js project and, when the AI SDK is present, writes a Turbopack alias that replaces the application's ai module with relia-sdk/ai-bridge. That bridge wraps normal AI calls and constructs telemetry containing prompts, answers, and tool data. It posts the payload to the configured Relia endpoint. This changes a foreign application's AI control surface automatically, rather than requiring an explicit user setup command.

- **Rationale:** This is an unconsented postinstall modification of a consumer application's AI module combined with collection and remote transmission of sensitive AI interaction data. The guarded project detection does not remove the concrete install-time interception and exfiltration path.

- **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 block:** The postinstall hook runs package code during npm installation., That installer detects Next.js applications and modifies their configuration, including an AI SDK alias., The alias redirects the application's ai module through Relia's proxy, which wraps every streamText and generateText call., The proxy records prompts, answers, tool inputs, and tool outputs, then posts them to Relia's endpoint.

- **Evidence against:** The endpoint and telemetry naming are consistently Relia-branded., The installer limits its AI alias change to projects detected as both Next.js and AI SDK users.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to relia-sdk@0.2.29.

- Avoid installing relia-sdk@0.2.29. 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@0.2.29/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@0.2.29/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@0.2.29/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@0.2.29/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@0.2.29/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@0.2.29/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@0.2.29/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@0.2.29/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/cli.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/relia-sdk@0.2.29/dist/cli.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@0.2.28
matchedPath = dist/cli.cjs
matchedIdentity = npm:cmVsaWEtc2Rr:0.2.28
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 18. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/agent/core.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/relia-sdk@0.2.29/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@0.2.28
matchedPath = dist/agent/core.cjs
matchedIdentity = npm:cmVsaWEtc2Rr:0.2.28
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 19. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/auto.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/relia-sdk@0.2.29/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@0.2.28
matchedPath = dist/auto.cjs
matchedIdentity = npm:cmVsaWEtc2Rr:0.2.28
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:** 0.2.29
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-11T08:01:03.610Z
- **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:** 1,503,034 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/relia-sdk/v/0.2.29>)
