---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/spacecode"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/spacecode/report.md"
package: "spacecode"
report_status: "published"
title: "spacecode@2.17.16 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "2.17.16"
---

# spacecode@2.17.16 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — The backend receives the user’s Anthropic API credential, creating a risk of unauthorized use.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Credential Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 2.17.16
- **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.

Source inspection confirms an automatic transfer of ANTHROPIC\_API\_KEY to the package-selected backend without recipient-specific consent. This supports blocking for credential exfiltration; the prompt-fetch opt-out does not change the default transfer path.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 98.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-22T22:51:28.899Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-22T22:52:14.095Z
- **Download time:** 765 ms
- **Static scan time:** 4348 ms
- **AI review time:** 40083 ms
- **Total time:** 45196 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 REPL can send an Anthropic API key to the package’s backend while fetching prompt templates. This exposes a credential to a recipient outside its intended service.

- **Trigger:** Starting the REPL with ANTHROPIC\_API\_KEY set and prompt fetching enabled, which is the default.

- **Impact:** The backend receives the user’s Anthropic API credential, creating a risk of unauthorized use.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/repl.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-22T22:52:14.095Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The key resolver accepts ANTHROPIC\_API\_KEY, and automatic prompt loading sends the resolved value as a bearer token and x-api-key header to the backend prompt endpoint.

- **Attack narrative:** When the REPL starts, it loads prompt templates automatically. Its key resolver accepts ANTHROPIC\_API\_KEY, and the prompt request sends the resolved key to the package’s backend service. This is a concrete credential transfer to a recipient outside the key’s intended service.

- **Rationale:** Source inspection confirms an automatic transfer of ANTHROPIC\_API\_KEY to the package-selected backend without recipient-specific consent. This supports blocking for credential exfiltration; the prompt-fetch opt-out does not change the default transfer path.

- **Files touched:** dist/repl.mjs

- **Network endpoints:** https://backend.spacecode.app/api/prompts

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 98.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for block:** The REPL accepts ANTHROPIC\_API\_KEY as an API key., On REPL startup, prompt loading runs automatically and sends the key in authorization headers to the backend prompt endpoint., The endpoint defaults to the package’s backend service; no recipient-specific consent guard appears in the transfer path.

- **Evidence against:** The prompt request can be disabled with SPACECODE\_PROMPTS=off, but it is enabled by default.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to spacecode@2.17.16.

- Avoid installing spacecode@2.17.16. 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: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/spacecode@2.17.16/dist/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1122: try {
L1123: const execAsync = (0, import_util.promisify)(import_child_process.exec);
L1124: const options = {};
```

### 2. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/spacecode@2.17.16/dist/index.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1122: try {
L1123: const execAsync = (0, import_util.promisify)(import_child_process.exec);
L1124: const options = {};
```

### 3. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/spacecode@2.17.16/dist/index.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L38: function initPostHog() {
L39: apiKey = process.env.POSTHOG_API_KEY || void 0;
L40: host = (process.env.POSTHOG_HOST || host).replace(/\/+$/, "");
...
L46: if (!apiKey) return;
L47: fetch(`${host}/capture/`, {
L48: method: "POST",
L49: headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
L50: body: JSON.stringify({
L51: api_key: apiKey,
...
L316: if (response.status === 429) {
L317: const errorData = await response.json().catch(() => ({}));
L318: const retryAfter = errorData.retryAfter ? new Date(errorData.retryAfter) : new Date(Date.now() + 12e4);
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/spacecode@2.17.16/dist/index.js>)

Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration.
dist/index.js:
baseUrl;
constructor(baseUrl, token) {
this.baseUrl = baseUrl ?? process.env.SPACECODE_API_URL ?? DEFAULT_API_URL;
const url = `${this.baseUrl}${path6}`;
headers["Authorization"] = `Bearer ${this.token}`;
throw new AuthError("Authentication failed. Please check your API key or run a command to re-authenticate");
const response = await fetch(`${this.baseUrl}/health`, {
const url = `${this.baseUrl}/api/auth/exchange`;
```

### 8. High: Remote Agent Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/spacecode@2.17.16/dist/index.js>)

Source exposes local file and command tools to a remote model endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L253: BackendApiClient = class {
L254: baseUrl;
L255: token;
...
L1122: try {
L1123: const execAsync = (0, import_util.promisify)(import_child_process.exec);
L1124: const options = {};
...
L7716: if (stat2.size > 256 * 1024) continue;
L7717: const content = fs.readFileSync(absPath, "utf-8");
L7718: this.options.send({ type: "file_sync", path: filePath, content });
```

### 9. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/spacecode@2.17.16/dist/index.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: dist/index.js spawns dist/mcp/index.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L38: function initPostHog() {
L39: apiKey = process.env.POSTHOG_API_KEY || void 0;
L40: host = (process.env.POSTHOG_HOST || host).replace(/\/+$/, "");
...
L46: if (!apiKey) return;
L47: fetch(`${host}/capture/`, {
L48: method: "POST",
L49: headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
L50: body: JSON.stringify({
L51: api_key: apiKey,
...
L316: if (response.status === 429) {
L317: const errorData = await response.json().catch(() => ({}));
L318: const retryAfter = errorData.retryAfter ? new Date(errorData.retryAfter) : new Date(Date.now() + 12e4);
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 12. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/repl.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/spacecode@2.17.16/dist/repl.mjs>)

Package contains source files above the normal full-analysis size ceiling.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/repl.mjs
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 4658825
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 13. Medium: Oversized Cli Entrypoint
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/repl.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/spacecode@2.17.16/dist/repl.mjs>)

Package contains an oversized executable-looking CLI entrypoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/repl.mjs
kind = oversized_cli_entrypoint
sizeBytes = 4658825
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 14. 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.

### 15. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/spacecode@2.17.16/dist/index.js>)

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 = spacecode@2.17.15
matchedPath = dist/index.js
matchedIdentity = npm:c3BhY2Vjb2Rl:2.17.15
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 16. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/repl.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/spacecode@2.17.16/dist/repl.mjs>)

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 = spacecode@2.17.15
matchedPath = dist/repl.mjs
matchedIdentity = npm:c3BhY2Vjb2Rl:2.17.15
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/mcp/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/spacecode@2.17.16/dist/mcp/index.js>)

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 = spacecode@2.17.15
matchedPath = dist/mcp/index.js
matchedIdentity = npm:c3BhY2Vjb2Rl:2.17.15
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 18. High: Known Malware Source Fingerprint Signature
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/spacecode@2.17.16/dist/index.js>)

Source fingerprint signature matches a known malicious package signature; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = malicious_source_fingerprint_signature
signature = 23a924a26ea784b2
signatureType = suspicious_hashes
sourceLabel = final_verdict:malicious
matchedPackage = spacecode@2.17.15
matchedPath = dist/index.js
matchedIdentity = npm:c3BhY2Vjb2Rl:2.17.15
similarity = 1.000
shingleOverlap = 3
summary = package final verdict is malicious
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 6
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 6

### Published dependency entries
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.25.3 (Dependency)
- chalk ^5.4.1 (Dependency)
- commander ^13.1.0 (Dependency)
- listr2 ^10.1.0 (Dependency)
- open ^10.1.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^3.25.76 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** spacecode
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.17.16
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-22T22:49:29.155Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-10-12T21:59:09.751Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-23T00:11:33.240Z
- **Known versions:** 162
- **Latest version:** 2.17.19
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** SpaceCode - launch cloud dev environments with AI coding agents
- **Keywords:** spacecode, ai-coding, cloudflare, remote, cli, codespaces
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 6
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 8,233,148 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

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