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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@apilift/cli/v/1.4.38"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@apilift/cli/v/1.4.38.md"
package: "@apilift/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@apilift/cli@1.4.38 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "1.4.38"
---

# @apilift/cli@1.4.38 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 15 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 1.4.38
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The flagged behaviors resolve to Apilift CLI flows, local capture, schema validation, and pseudonymous measurement delivery. No install hook or concrete attack behavior was found.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 98.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-15T15:02:38.692Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-15T15:05:18.695Z
- **Download time:** 1771 ms
- **Static scan time:** 20802 ms
- **AI review time:** 137429 ms
- **Total time:** 160003 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 attack was identified in the inspected source. The flagged execution and transcript behaviors support CLI validation, local capture, and pseudonymous usage measurement.

- **Trigger:** CLI linking or another CLI command activates the relevant runtime paths; session audit requires a supplied session or transcript.

- **Impact:** No unrelated credential transfer, remote response execution, or agent configuration mutation was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-15T15:05:18.695Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Linking sends a code to the configured Apilift site. The collector derives metrics from local transcripts; the capture server uses authenticated loopback access, and the evaluated helpers are package-embedded.

- **Rationale:** The flagged behaviors resolve to Apilift CLI flows, local capture, schema validation, and pseudonymous measurement delivery. No install hook or concrete attack behavior was found.

- **Network endpoints:** https://apilift.dev

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 98.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** package.json lists build and test scripts, with no install lifecycle hook., The session-audit finding location is within bundled tokenizer data; the audit requires a supplied session or transcript and reads that transcript locally., The collector examines Codex or Claude transcripts to derive measurements, then sends pseudonymized session and usage metrics with an installation token to Apilift after a CLI command., The native host processes native-messaging input from standard input., CLI linking uses the configured Apilift site, defaulting to https://apilift.dev, and saves the returned installation token., The dynamic-code findings are generated schema validation and an embedded process-inspection helper; the capture server binds to loopback and requires a bearer token.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @apilift/cli@1.4.38.

- Review the evidence and your use of @apilift/cli@1.4.38 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: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/apilift.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@apilift/cli@1.4.38/dist/apilift.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L76: const {workerData}=require('node:worker_threads');
L77: const {spawn}=require('node:child_process');
L78: const state=new Int32Array(workerData.memory,0,4), value=new Float64Array(workerData.memory,16,1);
```

### 3. High: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/apilift.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@apilift/cli@1.4.38/dist/apilift.js>)

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L23778: sourceCode = this.opts.code.process(sourceCode, sch);
L23779: const makeValidate = new Function(`${names_1.default.self}`, `${names_1.default.scope}`, sourceCode);
L23780: const validate2 = makeValidate(this, this.scope.get());
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/apilift.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@apilift/cli@1.4.38/dist/apilift.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/apilift.js:
script = `$ErrorActionPreference='Stop'; while ($null -ne ($line=[Console]::ReadLine())) { $parts=$line.Split('|'); try { $p=[System.Diagnostics.Process]::GetProcessById([int]$part...
import { mkdirSync as mkdirSync2, readFileSync as readFileSync2, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
writeFileSync(join(directory, "owner.json"), JSON.stringify(owner), { flag: "wx", mode: 384 });
transportDefinitionSchema = external_exports.strictObject({ title, description: requiredDescription, mode: external_exports.enum(["direct", "browser"]), baseUrl: requestUrlSchema.o...
if (v.mode === "direct" && !v.baseUrl)
ctx.addIssue({ cod
```

### 8. Critical: Remote Response Code Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 98.0%
- **Path:** dist/apilift-capture-server.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@apilift/cli@1.4.38/dist/apilift-capture-server.js>)

Source passes code obtained from a remote response into a dynamic execution sink.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Remote response is passed to a worker and executed with Node capabilities.
dist/apilift-capture-server.js:
import { createRequire } from "node:module"; const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
withParser: () => withParser,
withParser: () => withParser
required: () => required,
function required(Class2, schema, mask) {
super(`z.compile does not support ${feature}; this schema must use the runtime parser`);
function compileValidator(schema, parser) {
return parser;
dist/apilift.js:
import { createRequire } from "node:module"; const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
var __commonJS = (cb, mod) => function __require() {
worker.postMessage({ id: id2, pid });
const {workerData}=require('node:worker_threads');
const {spawn}=require('node:child_process');
const {parentPort}=require('
```

### 9. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/apilift.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@apilift/cli@1.4.38/dist/apilift.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/apilift.js spawns dist/apilift-capture-server.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L37: function formatReceipt(id2) {
L38: return `[apilift receipt:${Buffer.from(id2.replaceAll("-", ""), "hex").toString("base64url")}]
L39: `;
...
L51: memory = new SharedArrayBuffer(24);
L52: worker = new Worker(workerSource, { eval: true, workerData: { memory, script } });
L53: worker.on("error", () => {
...
L76: const {workerData}=require('node:worker_threads');
L77: const {spawn}=require('node:child_process');
L78: const state=new Int32Array(workerData.memory,0,4), value=new Float64Array(workerData.memory,16,1);
...
L82: let text='';
L83: child.stdout.on('data',chunk=>{
L84: text+=chunk.toString();
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 13. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 95.0%

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

### 14. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 15. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/apilift.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@apilift/cli@1.4.38/dist/apilift.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 = @apilift/cli@1.4.37
matchedIdentity = npm:QGFwaWxpZnQvY2xp:1.4.37
similarity = 0.667
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 7
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 7
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 7

### Published dependency entries
- @napi-rs/keyring 2.1.0 (Dependency)
- @pydantic/genai-prices 0.1.8 (Dependency)
- ajv 8.20.0 (Dependency)
- ajv-formats 3.0.1 (Dependency)
- gpt-tokenizer 4.0.0 (Dependency)
- jsonc-parser 3.3.1 (Dependency)
- tinyexec 1.3.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @apilift/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.4.38
- **Version published:** 2026-10-15T15:00:12.262Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-29T18:06:20.596Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T18:23:19.646Z
- **Known versions:** 29
- **Latest version:** 1.8.4
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Maintainers:** 500xp
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=24.16.0 \<27
- **Artifact files:** 20
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 10,845,775 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@apilift/cli/v/1.4.38>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/egor-sergeev/apilift>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/egor-sergeev/apilift#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/egor-sergeev/apilift/issues>)
