---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/w-screenctl/v/1.0.7"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/w-screenctl/v/1.0.7.md"
package: "w-screenctl"
report_status: "published"
title: "w-screenctl@1.0.7 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.7"
---

# w-screenctl@1.0.7 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Quarantined by product-default policy — this version is not allowed through the firewall.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 1.0.7
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-13618 confirms this npm version as malicious. When WScreenctl() is invoked (via the bundled g.mjs entry or the documented systemd/Task Scheduler service units), the package starts a Hapi HTTP server bound to 0.0.0.0:7000 with CORS enabled and no authentication. POST /chrome/evaluate passes the request body's \`script\` field directly to Playwright's page.evaluate, allowing arbitrary JavaScript execution inside the controlled Chrome instance...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-07T17:35:04.456Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-07T17:35:04.968Z
- **Download time:** 255 ms
- **Static scan time:** 255 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 512 ms

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## 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. Low: Obfuscated
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 60.0%

Package source has low-confidence obfuscation-like patterns.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 7. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

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

- **Dependencies:** 5
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 1
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 5

### Published dependency entries
- @hapi/hapi ^21.4.9 (Dependency)
- joi ^18.2.1 (Dependency)
- playwright ^1.62.1 (Dependency)
- w-mousekey ^1.0.21 (Dependency)
- wsemi ^1.8.68 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** w-screenctl
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.7
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-07T16:04:17.574Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-07T17:35:04.968Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-08T06:57:10.727Z
- **Known versions:** 4
- **Latest version:** 1.0.8
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** An operator for chrome or system in nodejs.
- **Author:** yuda-lyu
- **Maintainers:** semisphere
- **Keywords:** package, tool, screen, control, playwright, node
- **Artifact files:** 74
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,464,828 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/w-screenctl/v/1.0.7>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/yuda-lyu/w-screenctl>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/yuda-lyu/w-screenctl#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/yuda-lyu/w-screenctl/issues>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-13618>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/w-screenctl/v/1.0.6>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/w-screenctl/v/1.0.4>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/w-screenctl/v/1.0.7>)