paper-fetch

Fail

Audited by Snyk on Aug 19, 2026

Risk Level: CRITICAL
Full Analysis

CRITICAL E006: Malicious code pattern detected in skill scripts.

  • Malicious code pattern detected (high risk: 1.00). No covert backdoor or data-exfiltration code was found, but the project intentionally includes two abuse-enabling features — an enabled-by-default Sci-Hub fallback (tries known pirate mirrors and scrapes for new ones) and an operator-gated CloakBrowser stealth-browser fetch that can bypass Cloudflare and use the operator's browser cookies/IP to access paywalled PDFs.

Issues (1)

E006
CRITICAL

Malicious code pattern detected in skill scripts.

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
CRITICAL
Analyzed
Aug 19, 2026, 05:32 PM
Issues
1
Security Audit — snyk — paper-fetch