---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tnega/v/0.5.5"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tnega/v/0.5.5.md"
package: "tnega"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "tnega@0.5.5 npm security report"
verdict: "manual_review"
version: "0.5.5"
---

# tnega@0.5.5 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 29 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Manual Review
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Under Review
- **Threat category:** Unknown
- **Selected version:** 0.5.5
- **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: manual review; recommendation: manual review. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The inspected source does not prove malicious behavior or an install-time attack. Important runtime coverage remains unresolved, so this review cannot support a clean verdict.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Manual Review
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 61.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-27T01:43:00.025Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-27T01:48:54.556Z
- **Download time:** 4375 ms
- **Static scan time:** 47208 ms
- **AI review time:** 302946 ms
- **Total time:** 354531 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:** No concrete attack was established in the inspected excerpts, but the package’s full runtime behavior remains unresolved because large bundles and analysis paths were not fully reviewed.

- **Trigger:** The command-line entrypoint runs when invoked; package checks run during publishing.

- **Impact:** The inspected evidence does not establish harmful impact, while incomplete runtime coverage prevents a clean determination.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-27T01:48:54.556Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The available excerpts show normal entrypoint and error-handling code, language tokenizers, and a dead evaluation call; they do not resolve all runtime paths.

- **Rationale:** The inspected source does not prove malicious behavior or an install-time attack. Important runtime coverage remains unresolved, so this review cannot support a clean verdict.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Manual Review

- **Confidence:** 61.0%

- **Recommended action:** manual\_review

- **Intent class:** Unknown

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **AI review observations:** The manifest exposes a CLI and runs package checks through \`prepublishOnly\`; the inspected scripts do not establish an npm install hook., The declared self-dependency points to an older release whose inspected manifest shows build and publish checks, with no install lifecycle script in the inspected excerpt., The flagged SQL and VBScript assets begin with language-tokenizer logic; the flagged \`eval\` excerpt is inside a function that returns before that call.

- **Evidence against:** Static analysis reports incomplete coverage of large runtime bundles and execution paths, which leaves behavior unresolved but does not establish an attack.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to tnega@0.5.5.

- Review the evidence and your use of tnega@0.5.5 before allowing it. Restrict the permissions described in this report.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.

## Public findings

### 1. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/tools.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tnega@0.5.5/dist/tools.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1667: // packages/execution/src/index.ts
L1668: import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L1669:
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/tool-web-fetch.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tnega@0.5.5/dist/tool-web-fetch.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
L137: if (name === "pwsh") return "pwsh";
L138: if (name === "powershell") return "powershell";
L139: if (name === "cmd") return "cmd";
```

### 5. High: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/office.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tnega@0.5.5/dist/office.js>)

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L9051: if (typeof callback !== "function") {
L9052: callback = new Function("" + callback);
L9053: }
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/sandbox-windows-acl-grant.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tnega@0.5.5/dist/sandbox-windows-acl-grant.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import { createRequire as __tnegaCreateRequire } from 'node:module'; const require = __tnegaCreateRequire(import.meta.url);
L2:
```

### 7. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/loop-guard.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tnega@0.5.5/dist/loop-guard.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L7: import { hostname } from "node:os";
L8: var self = { pid: process.pid, host: hostname() };
L9:
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 11. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/tools.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tnega@0.5.5/dist/tools.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2049: while ($queue.Count) { $p = $queue.Dequeue(); foreach ($c in $all) { if ($c.ParentProcessId -eq $p -and $c.ProcessId -ne $p) { $queue.Enqueue($c.ProcessId); Stop-Process -Id $c.Pro...
L2050: const root32 = process.env.SystemRoot ?? "C:\\Windows";
L2051: await new Promise((resolve4) => {
L2052: const sweeper = spawn(`${root32}\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe`, [
L2053: "-NoLogo",
```

### 12. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tnega@0.5.5/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:
this.baseUrl = void 0;
var ToolAuthorizationError;
ToolAuthorizationError = class extends Error {
name = "ToolAuthorizationError";
ToolAuthorizationError: () => ToolAuthorizationError,
throw new ToolAuthorizationError(`tool rejected by tools/pre-execute: ${name11}`);
if (denial) throw new ToolAuthorizationError(denial);
throw new ToolAuthorizationError(`tool authorization denied: ${request.name}`);
```

### 13. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tnega@0.5.5/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L269: original: /* @__PURE__ */ Symbol.for("tnega.original"),
L270: metadata: /* @__PURE__ */ Symbol.for("tnega.metadata"),
L271: initHooks: /* @__PURE__ */ Symbol.for("tnega.initHooks"),
...
L1636: try {
L1637: JSON.parse(text7);
L1638: return void 0;
...
L1949: if (!isRecord2(value3)) return false;
L1950: return isStringArray(value3.fatalSignatures) && (value3.allowedExitCodes === void 0 || Array.isArray(value3.allowedExitCodes) && value3.allowedExitCodes.every((code2) => typeof cod...
L1951: }
...
L2008: roots.push(policy2.tempRoot);
L2009: } else if (process.platform === "win32") {
L2010: roots.push(tmpdir());
```

### 14. Critical: Download Execute
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tnega@0.5.5/dist/index.js>)

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L269: original: /* @__PURE__ */ Symbol.for("tnega.original"),
L270: metadata: /* @__PURE__ */ Symbol.for("tnega.metadata"),
L271: initHooks: /* @__PURE__ */ Symbol.for("tnega.initHooks"),
...
L1636: try {
L1637: JSON.parse(text7);
L1638: return void 0;
...
L1949: if (!isRecord2(value3)) return false;
L1950: return isStringArray(value3.fatalSignatures) && (value3.allowedExitCodes === void 0 || Array.isArray(value3.allowedExitCodes) && value3.allowedExitCodes.every((code2) => typeof cod...
L1951: }
...
L2008: roots.push(policy2.tempRoot);
L2009: } else if (process.platform === "win32") {
L2010: roots.push(tmpdir());
```

### 15. High: Obfuscated Payload Loader
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/office.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tnega@0.5.5/dist/office.js>)

Source contains an obfuscated payload loader that reconstructs and executes hidden code.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L47445: if (!fs[gracefulQueue]) {
L47446: queue2 = global[gracefulQueue] || [];
L47447: publishQueue(fs, queue2);
```

### 16. High: Remote Agent Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tnega@0.5.5/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1315: this.root = self3;
L1316: this.baseUrl = void 0;
L1317: this.fiber = new Fiber(self3, {}, /* @__PURE__ */ Object.create(null), null, () => []);
...
L2673: // packages/execution/src/index.ts
L2674: import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L2675: function isSandboxPipeDenial(text7) {
...
L3114: const listed = available.slice(0, 40).join(", ");
L3115: return `. Available tools: ${listed}${available.length > 40 ? ", \u2026" : ""}`;
L3116: }
...
L3660: const requestPath = join5(scratch, "request.json");
L3661: writeFileSync(requestPath, JSON.stringify(request), { encoding: "utf8", mode: 384 });
L3662: return await runExecutor(invocation, requestPath);
```

### 17. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tnega@0.5.5/dist/bin.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/bin.js spawns dist/index.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L59: // packages/execution/src/network.ts
L60: import { lookup } from "node:dns/promises";
L61: import { isIP } from "node:net";
...
L76: }
L77: function envProxy(env4 = process.env) {
L78: for (const key of ["HTTPS_PROXY", "https_proxy", "HTTP_PROXY", "http_proxy", "ALL_PROXY", "all_proxy"]) {
...
L101: if (init.body !== void 0 && init.body !== null) {
L102: proxied.body = new Uint8Array(await new Response(init.body).arrayBuffer());
L103: }
...
L146: const fakeIp = blocked && /^198\.1[89]\./.test(blocked.address);
L147: throw new Error(`HTTP destination must be public: ${host} resolves to ${address}, a private or reserved address.${fakeIp ? " This is how a proxy
```

### 18. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tnega@0.5.5/dist/index.js>)

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/index.js
L269: original: /* @__PURE__ */ Symbol.for("tnega.original"),
L270: metadata: /* @__PURE__ */ Symbol.for("tnega.metadata"),
L271: initHooks: /* @__PURE__ */ Symbol.for("tnega.initHooks"),
...
L1636: try {
L1637: JSON.parse(text7);
L1638: return void 0;
...
L1949: if (!isRecord2(value3)) return false;
L1950: return isStringArray(value3.fatalSignatures) && (value3.allowedExitCodes === void 0 || Array.isArray(value3.allowedExitCodes) && value3.allowedExitCodes.every((code2) => typeof cod...
L1951: }
...
L2008: roots.push(policy2.tempRoot);
L2009: } else if (process.platform === "win32") {
L2010: roots.push(tmpdir());
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 22. Medium: Ships Wasm Module
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/quickjs.wasm
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tnega@0.5.5/dist/quickjs.wasm>)

Package ships WebAssembly modules.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dist/quickjs.wasm
kind = wasm_module
sizeBytes = 637405
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 23. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tnega@0.5.5/dist/bin.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/bin.js
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 8247935
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 24. Medium: Oversized Cli Entrypoint
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tnega@0.5.5/dist/bin.js>)

Package contains an oversized executable-looking CLI entrypoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/bin.js
kind = oversized_cli_entrypoint
sizeBytes = 8247935
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 25. 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.

### 26. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli-runtime.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tnega@0.5.5/dist/cli-runtime.js>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_path_work_budget_exceeded; limitedFiles = 20
```

### 27. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/web/assets/sql-D0XecflT.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tnega@0.5.5/dist/web/assets/sql-D0XecflT.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 = open-walnut@0.6.18
matchedPath = dist/web/static/assets/sql-D0XecflT.js
matchedIdentity = npm:b3Blbi13YWxudXQ:0.6.18
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 28. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/web/assets/vbscript-BuJXcnF6.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tnega@0.5.5/dist/web/assets/vbscript-BuJXcnF6.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 = open-walnut@0.6.18
matchedPath = dist/web/static/assets/vbscript-BuJXcnF6.js
matchedIdentity = npm:b3Blbi13YWxudXQ:0.6.18
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 29. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tnega@0.5.5/dist/bin.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 = tnega@0.5.3
matchedIdentity = npm:dG5lZ2E:0.5.3
similarity = 0.883
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 3
- **Optional dependencies:** 2
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 7
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 5

### Published dependency entries
- playwright-core 1.63.0 (Dependency)
- tnega ^0.1.1 (Dependency)
- undici 7.29.1 (Dependency)
- @lydell/node-pty 1.1.0 (OptionalDependency)
- koffi ^3.1.0 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** tnega
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.5.5
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-26T15:53:05.977Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-31T19:49:51.355Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-03T11:48:26.979Z
- **Known versions:** 17
- **Latest version:** 0.5.6
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** A minimal agent harness with spacetime-composable plugin lifecycles.
- **Maintainers:** whale4rain
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.19.0
- **Artifact files:** 737
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 110,455,585 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tnega/v/0.5.5>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/whale4rain/tnega>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/whale4rain/tnega#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/whale4rain/tnega/issues>)