---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter/v/3.4.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter/v/3.4.0.md"
package: "@bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter"
report_status: "published"
title: "@bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter@3.4.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "3.4.0"
---

# @bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter@3.4.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 17 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Credential Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 3.4.0
- **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: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The source supports a warning because an unrestricted configured API destination can receive the supplied API key. The default is the package-aligned service, and the other flagged command execution is used for Playwright invocation or Git metadata.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-18T01:28:05.467Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-18T01:29:10.092Z
- **Download time:** 772 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1363 ms
- **AI review time:** 62490 ms
- **Total time:** 64625 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:** During reporter or CLI operation, a configured base URL can receive the supplied Neeto API key. No destination restriction is visible in the inspected request code, so this creates a conditional credential exposure risk.

- **Trigger:** The user runs the reporter or CLI with an API key and a configured base URL.

- **Impact:** A configured endpoint outside the intended service could receive the API key. The source does not establish that such a destination is selected by default.

- **Evidence paths:** bin/neetoplaydash.mjs, bin/smartOrchestration.js, index.cjs.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-18T01:29:10.092Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The code uses the configured URL for API requests and places the API key in the X-Api-Key header; the default URL is connect.neetoplaydash.com.

- **Rationale:** The source supports a warning because an unrestricted configured API destination can receive the supplied API key. The default is the package-aligned service, and the other flagged command execution is used for Playwright invocation or Git metadata.

- **Files touched:** bin/neetoplaydash.mjs, bin/smartOrchestration.js, index.cjs.js

- **Network endpoints:** https://connect.neetoplaydash.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 86.0%

- **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The launcher accepts an API key from command options, reporter configuration, or the NEETO\_API\_KEY environment variable, and passes it to the orchestration client., The launcher copies a configured reporter base URL into the environment; the orchestration request sends the API key to that URL, with connect.neetoplaydash.com as the default., The bundled reporter also selects a configurable base URL and sends the API key in its X-Api-Key header, without restricting the destination to the Neeto service., The bundled synchronous commands read Git commit, branch, and author metadata., The only prepare hook runs Husky setup.

- **Evidence against:** The default API destination is the package’s Neeto Playdash service, and the API key is supplied through caller configuration or environment variables., The shell execution found in the launcher starts Playwright when the user invokes its CLI; the bundled synchronous commands are Git metadata queries.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter@3.4.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter@3.4.0 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:** index.cjs.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter@3.4.0/index.cjs.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: "use strict";Object.defineProperty(exports,"__esModule",{value:!0});var e=require("os"),t=require("domain"),n=require("fs"),i=require("path"),o=require("util"),a=require("url"),r=r...
L2: /*!
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package source references shell execution.

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** index.cjs.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter@3.4.0/index.cjs.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: "use strict";Object.defineProperty(exports,"__esModule",{value:!0});var e=require("os"),t=require("domain"),n=require("fs"),i=require("path"),o=require("util"),a=require("url"),r=r...
L2: /*!
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 9. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** index.cjs.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter@3.4.0/index.cjs.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: "use strict";Object.defineProperty(exports,"__esModule",{value:!0});var e=require("os"),t=require("domain"),n=require("fs"),i=require("path"),o=require("util"),a=require("url"),r=r...
L2: /*!
```

### 10. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** bin/smartOrchestration.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter@3.4.0/bin/smartOrchestration.js>)

Source appears to send environment or credential material to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import https from "https";
L2: 
...
L60: const API_BASE_URL =
L61: process.env.NEETO_PLAYDASH_API_BASE_URL ||
L62: "https://connect.neetoplaydash.com";
L63: 
L64: return smartOrchestrationAxios.post(
L65: groupBySpecs
```

### 11. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** index.cjs.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter@3.4.0/index.cjs.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: "use strict";Object.defineProperty(exports,"__esModule",{value:!0});var e=require("os"),t=require("domain"),n=require("fs"),i=require("path"),o=require("util"),a=require("url"),r=r...
L2: /*!
...
L7: */
L8: function(e){var t,n,o,a=Le.exports,r=i.extname,s=/^\s*([^;\s]*)(?:;|\s|$)/,c=/^text\//i;function u(e){if(!e||"string"!=typeof e)return!1;var t=s.exec(e),n=t&&a[t[1].toLowerCase()];...
L9: /*! https://mths.be/wtf8 v1.0.1 by @mathias */qp=Hp,Mp=Hp.exports,function(e){var t=Mp,n=qp&&qp.exports==t&&qp,i="object"==typeof E&&E;i.global!==i&&i.window!==i||(e=i);var o,a,r,s...
```

### 12. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** bin/smartOrchestration.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter@3.4.0/bin/smartOrchestration.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.bin -> bin/neetoplaydash.mjs -> bin/smartOrchestration.js
L1: import https from "https";
L2: 
...
L60: const API_BASE_URL =
L61: process.env.NEETO_PLAYDASH_API_BASE_URL ||
L62: "https://connect.neetoplaydash.com";
L63: 
L64: return smartOrchestrationAxios.post(
L65: groupBySpecs
```

### 13. High: Trigger Reachable Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** bin/smartOrchestration.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter@3.4.0/bin/smartOrchestration.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable credential exfiltration chain: manifest.bin -> bin/neetoplaydash.mjs -> bin/smartOrchestration.js
L1: import https from "https";
L2: 
...
L60: const API_BASE_URL =
L61: process.env.NEETO_PLAYDASH_API_BASE_URL ||
L62: "https://connect.neetoplaydash.com";
L63: 
L64: return smartOrchestrationAxios.post(
L65: groupBySpecs
```

### 14. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** index.cjs.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter@3.4.0/index.cjs.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches command-output exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable command-output exfiltration chain: manifest.main -> index.cjs.js
L1: "use strict";Object.defineProperty(exports,"__esModule",{value:!0});var e=require("os"),t=require("domain"),n=require("fs"),i=require("path"),o=require("util"),a=require("url"),r=r...
L2: /*!
...
L7: */
L8: function(e){var t,n,o,a=Le.exports,r=i.extname,s=/^\s*([^;\s]*)(?:;|\s|$)/,c=/^text\//i;function u(e){if(!e||"string"!=typeof e)return!1;var t=s.exec(e),n=t&&a[t[1].toLowerCase()];...
L9: /*! https://mths.be/wtf8 v1.0.1 by @mathias */qp=Hp,Mp=Hp.exports,function(e){var t=Mp,n=qp&&qp.exports==t&&qp,i="object"==typeof E&&E;i.global!==i&&i.window!==i||(e=i);var o,a,r,s...
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 17. 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.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepare
- **Dependencies:** 11
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 1
- **Development dependencies:** 37
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 12

### Published dependency entries
- @bigbinary/neeto-cist 1.0.13 (Dependency)
- @honeybadger-io/js ^6.10.0 (Dependency)
- axios ^1.13.5 (Dependency)
- axios-retry ^4.5.0 (Dependency)
- cli-progress ^3.12.0 (Dependency)
- dotenv ^16.4.5 (Dependency)
- immer ^10.0.3 (Dependency)
- p-retry ^6.2.1 (Dependency)
- ramda ^0.30.1 (Dependency)
- tsx ^4.19.0 (Dependency)
- wtf-8 ^1.0.1 (Dependency)
- @playwright/test ^1.48.2 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 3.4.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-09-10T15:48:23.425Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-10T22:29:23.285Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-03T07:19:00.570Z
- **Known versions:** 13
- **Latest version:** 4.0.7
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** The custom playwright reporter for neeto-playwright-dashboard.
- **Maintainers:** neerajdotname, bigbinarybot, neetohq
- **Runtime engines:** npm: \>=9, node: \>=22.13, yarn: \>=1.22
- **Artifact files:** 15
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,724,018 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter/v/3.4.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter>)
