---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/yaver-cli/v/1.99.423"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/yaver-cli/v/1.99.423.md"
package: "yaver-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "yaver-cli@1.99.423 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.99.423"
---

# yaver-cli@1.99.423 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. It can alter Codex, Claude Code, and OpenCode control surfaces without an explicit setup command.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Warn by default
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Soft block: AI-agent control surface
- **Selected version:** 1.99.423
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

LPM flags this version as an AI-agent control-surface risk. A global npm installation automatically installs external AI coding runners and registers Yaver MCP with them. It also changes host configuration and runs downloaded agent code.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-27T19:29:01.729Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-27T19:30:05.460Z
- **Download time:** 507 ms
- **Static scan time:** 843 ms
- **AI review time:** 62380 ms
- **Total time:** 63731 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** A global npm installation automatically installs external AI coding runners and registers Yaver MCP with them. It also changes host configuration and runs downloaded agent code.

- **Trigger:** npm install -g yaver-cli

- **Impact:** It can alter Codex, Claude Code, and OpenCode control surfaces without an explicit setup command.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, src/postinstall.js, src/agent-runtime.js, src/commands/desktop.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-27T19:30:05.460Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Postinstall bootstrap changes external AI-agent integrations and host settings.

- **Attack narrative:** During a global install, the postinstall hook downloads the Yaver agent, installs external coding-runner packages if none are present, and invokes its agent to register Yaver MCP with Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode. This happens without an explicit user setup command. The same hook can modify shell startup files, write a sysctl configuration, and restart services. These are unconsented lifecycle changes to broad AI-agent control surfaces.

- **Rationale:** Source inspection confirms unconsented postinstall installation and MCP registration across foreign AI coding agents. This meets the blocking policy for lifecycle mutation of a broad AI-agent control surface.

- **Files touched:** src/postinstall.js, src/agent-runtime.js, /etc/sysctl.d/99-yaver-runner-sandbox.conf, ~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, ~/.profile, ~/.zshenv, ~/.yaver/bin

- **Network endpoints:** https://api.github.com/repos/yaver-io/yaver.io/releases?per\_page=20

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** Its postinstall hook runs during global installation., The hook installs Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode globally when none exists., The hook then registers Yaver MCP with those external coding agents without a user command., The hook can write Linux sysctl settings and restart registered Yaver services., It downloads an agent binary from GitHub releases and later executes it.

- **Evidence against:** The desktop downloader verifies a SHA-256 checksum and platform signatures where implemented., The JavaScript reviewed contains no direct credential harvesting or secret exfiltration.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/yaver-cli@1.99.423/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node src/postinstall.js
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/yaver-cli@1.99.423/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node src/postinstall.js
```

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

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 5. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** src/hermesc-runtime.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/yaver-cli@1.99.423/src/hermesc-runtime.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L24: const https = require("https");
L25: const { spawnSync } = require("child_process");
L26:
```

### 6. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** src/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/yaver-cli@1.99.423/src/postinstall.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L554: // runners are ordinary npm globals and must not disappear merely because
L555: // the install came from PowerShell.
L556: if (!envEnabled("YAVER_SKIP_POSTINSTALL_RUNNERS")) {
```

### 7. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** src/analyzer.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/yaver-cli@1.99.423/src/analyzer.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: const fs = require('fs');
L2: const semver = require('semver');
```

### 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. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** src/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/yaver-cli@1.99.423/src/postinstall.js>)

Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L10: const { ensureHermesc } = require("./hermesc-runtime");
L11: const { execFileSync, execSync, spawnSync } = require("child_process");
L12: const fs = require("fs");
...
L29: function envEnabled(name) {
L30: const raw = String(process.env[name] || "").trim().toLowerCase();
L31: return raw === "1" || raw === "true" || raw === "yes";
...
L49: function commandExists(name) {
L50: const probe = process.platform === "win32"
L51: ? spawnSync("where.exe", [name], { stdio: "ignore", windowsHide: true })
L52: : spawnSync("/bin/sh", ["-c", `command -v ${name}`], { stdio: "ignore" });
L53: return !probe.error && probe.status === 0;
...
L321:
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 12. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** src/hermesc-runtime.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/yaver-cli@1.99.423/src/hermesc-runtime.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L23: const path = require("path");
L24: const https = require("https");
L25: const { spawnSync } = require("child_process");
L26: 
L27: const HERMES_RN_VERSION = process.env.YAVER_HERMES_RN_VERSION || "0.81.5";
L28:
```

### 13. Critical: Download Execute
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** src/commands/desktop.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/yaver-cli@1.99.423/src/commands/desktop.js>)

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L15: const fs = require("node:fs");
L16: const https = require("node:https");
L17: const os = require("node:os");
L18: const path = require("node:path");
L19: const { spawn, spawnSync } = require("node:child_process");
L20: const { pipeline } = require("node:stream/promises");
...
L50: 
L51: function normalizedArch(arch = process.arch) {
L52: if (arch === "x64" || arch === "amd64") return "x64";
...
L95: 
L96: function installedDesktopCandidates(platform = process.platform, env = process.env, home = os.homedir()) {
L97: if (platform === "darwin") {
```

### 14. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** src/commands/desktop.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/yaver-cli@1.99.423/src/commands/desktop.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: scripts.postinstall -> src/postinstall.js -> src/commands/desktop.js
L15: const fs = require("node:fs");
L16: const https = require("node:https");
L17: const os = require("node:os");
L18: const path = require("node:path");
L19: const { spawn, spawnSync } = require("node:child_process");
L20: const { pipeline } = require("node:stream/promises");
...
L50: 
L51: function normalizedArch(arch = process.arch) {
L52: if (arch === "x64" || arch === "amd64") return "x64";
...
L95: 
L96: function installedDesktopCandidates(platform = process.platform, env = process.env, home = os.homedir()) {
L97: if (platform === "darwin") {
```

### 15. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** src/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/yaver-cli@1.99.423/src/postinstall.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches persistence behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable persistence chain: scripts.postinstall -> src/postinstall.js
L10: const { ensureHermesc } = require("./hermesc-runtime");
L11: const { execFileSync, execSync, spawnSync } = require("child_process");
L12: const fs = require("fs");
...
L29: function envEnabled(name) {
L30: const raw = String(process.env[name] || "").trim().toLowerCase();
L31: return raw === "1" || raw === "true" || raw === "yes";
...
L49: function commandExists(name) {
L50: const probe = process.platform === "win32"
L51: ? spawnSync("where.exe", [name], { stdio: "ignore", windowsHide: true })
L52: : spawnSync("/bin/sh", ["-c", `command -v ${name}`], { stdio: "ignore" });
L53: return !probe.error && probe.status === 0;
...
L321:
```

### 16. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** src/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/yaver-cli@1.99.423/src/postinstall.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L150: if (typeof process.geteuid !== "function" || process.geteuid() !== 0) {
L151: log("linux/arm64 hermesc build needs cmake/ninja/clang/libicu-dev — re-run `npm install -g yaver-cli` as root to provision them, or install manually.");
L152: return;
...
L158: }
L159: execSync("apt-get update -y", { stdio: ["ignore", "ignore", "ignore"] });
L160: execSync(`DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends ${required.join(" ")}`, {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 19. Medium: Ships Native Binary
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** hermesc/darwin-x64/hermesc
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/yaver-cli@1.99.423/hermesc/darwin-x64/hermesc>)

Package ships native binary artifacts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = hermesc/darwin-x64/hermesc
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 6297624
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 20. 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.

### 21. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/agent-runtime.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/yaver-cli@1.99.423/src/agent-runtime.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 = yaver-cli@1.99.421
matchedPath = src/agent-runtime.js
matchedIdentity = npm:eWF2ZXItY2xp:1.99.421
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 22. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/commands/desktop.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/yaver-cli@1.99.423/src/commands/desktop.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 = yaver-cli@1.99.421
matchedPath = src/commands/desktop.js
matchedIdentity = npm:eWF2ZXItY2xp:1.99.421
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 23. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/hermesc-runtime.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/yaver-cli@1.99.423/src/hermesc-runtime.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 = yaver-cli@1.99.421
matchedPath = src/hermesc-runtime.js
matchedIdentity = npm:eWF2ZXItY2xp:1.99.421
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 24. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/yaver-cli@1.99.423/src/postinstall.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 = yaver-cli@1.99.421
matchedPath = src/postinstall.js
matchedIdentity = npm:eWF2ZXItY2xp:1.99.421
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 25. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/commands/run.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/yaver-cli@1.99.423/src/commands/run.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 = yaver-cli@1.99.421
matchedPath = src/commands/run.js
matchedIdentity = npm:eWF2ZXItY2xp:1.99.421
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, preuninstall
- **Dependencies:** 2
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 2

### Published dependency entries
- semver ^7.6.0 (Dependency)
- yaver-mobile-headless ^0.1.2 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** yaver-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.99.423
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-08-27T19:22:22.408Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-03T13:13:16.513Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-27T19:30:05.460Z
- **Known versions:** 41
- **Latest version:** 1.99.423
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Unified npm bootstrap for the Yaver agent, SDK injection, and local-first developer runtime
- **Author:** Yaver
- **Keywords:** mcp, mcp-server, model-context-protocol, claude-code, codex, ai-agent, developer-tools, local-first, react-native, testing, mobile, yaver
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 32
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 12,822,916 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/yaver-cli/v/1.99.423>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/yaver-io/yaver.io.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://yaver.io/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/yaver-io/yaver.io/issues>)