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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/taskforge-9xv/v/1.3.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/taskforge-9xv/v/1.3.0.md"
package: "taskforge-9xv"
report_status: "published"
title: "taskforge-9xv@1.3.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.3.0"
---

# taskforge-9xv@1.3.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — A compromised or malicious configured server can execute arbitrary code as the invoking user.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 1.3.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

The user-invoked CLI downloads JavaScript from the supplied origin's \`/api/x-handler\` route and executes it as a detached Node process. The package applies no authenticity check to that payload.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-04T05:49:23.135Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-04T05:50:05.900Z
- **Download time:** 506 ms
- **Static scan time:** 22 ms
- **AI review time:** 42237 ms
- **Total time:** 42765 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** The user-invoked CLI downloads JavaScript from the supplied origin's \`/api/x-handler\` route and executes it as a detached Node process. The package applies no authenticity check to that payload.

- **Trigger:** Running \`taskforge --origin-server \<url\>\` or \`taskforge setup --origin-server \<url\>\`.

- **Impact:** A compromised or malicious configured server can execute arbitrary code as the invoking user.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, src/bin.js, src/sync-update.js, src/identity.js, src/locations.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-04T05:50:05.900Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** remote JavaScript download piped to \`node -\`

- **Rationale:** Source establishes an unverified remote-code execution capability, but it is activated only by an explicit user command and uses a user-provided origin. No install-time behavior or unsolicited data theft is present.

- **Files touched:** src/bin.js, src/sync-update.js, src/identity.js, src/locations.js

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 93.0%

- **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** Fetches JavaScript from a caller-controlled origin., Pipes downloaded bytes to detached \`node -\` for execution., No signature or integrity verification precedes execution.

- **Evidence against:** No npm lifecycle hooks are declared., Execution requires an explicit CLI \`--origin-server\` argument., No source evidence of credential harvesting or unsolicited exfiltration.

## Public findings

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

Package declares npm scripts.

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 5. High: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** src/sync-update.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/taskforge-9xv@1.3.0/src/sync-update.js>)

Fetches JavaScript from a caller-controlled origin.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
const u = new URL("/api/x-handler", `${b}/`);
    if (dk) {
        u.searchParams.set("key", dk);
    }
    const r = await fetch(u.toString(), {
        headers: {
            Accept: "application/javascript",
            ...(dk ? { "X-Runtime-auth-ref": dk } : {}),
        },
    });
```

### 6. High: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** src/sync-update.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/taskforge-9xv@1.3.0/src/sync-update.js>)

No signature or integrity verification precedes execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
const bf = Buffer.from(await r.arrayBuffer());
    if (bf.length < 100) {
        throw new Error("x-handler response too small");
    }
    return bf;
```

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

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** taskforge-9xv
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.3.0
- **License:** ISC
- **Version published:** 2026-08-25T09:06:31.748Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-04T05:50:05.900Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-04T05:50:05.900Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 1.3.0
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/taskforge-9xv/v/1.3.0>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-15914>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/taskforge-9xv/v/1.3.0>)