---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter/v/4.0.6.md"
package: "@bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter"
report_status: "published"
title: "@bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter@4.0.6 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "4.0.6"
---

# @bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter@4.0.6 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — The user's NeetoPlaydash credential can be disclosed to a separate error-reporting service.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Credential Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 4.0.6
- **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: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The reporter automatically sends its NeetoPlaydash API key in Honeybadger error context to api.honeybadger.io. This is credential exfiltration to a separate service, triggered by runtime errors.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 97.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-03T06:32:18.592Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-03T06:33:23.094Z
- **Download time:** 1015 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1283 ms
- **AI review time:** 62203 ms
- **Total time:** 64502 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:** The reporter exposes the NeetoPlaydash API key to Honeybadger error reporting.

- **Trigger:** The Playwright reporter is instantiated and an error or unhandled rejection occurs.

- **Impact:** The user's NeetoPlaydash credential can be disclosed to a separate error-reporting service.

- **Evidence paths:** index.cjs.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-03T06:33:23.094Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Reporter options containing the API key are set as Honeybadger context; automatic error notifications send that context to api.honeybadger.io.

- **Attack narrative:** When Playwright creates the reporter, it reads the NeetoPlaydash API key from reporter options or NEETO\_API\_KEY and adds the complete options object to Honeybadger's global error context. On reporter errors or unhandled rejections, the package automatically submits Honeybadger notifications to api.honeybadger.io, exposing that service credential to a different host.

- **Rationale:** The reporter automatically sends its NeetoPlaydash API key in Honeybadger error context to api.honeybadger.io. This is credential exfiltration to a separate service, triggered by runtime errors.

- **Network endpoints:** api.honeybadger.io, https://connect.neetoplaydash.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 97.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for block:** Reporter configuration reads NEETO\_API\_KEY or an apiKey option., The reporter constructor places its apiKey on the instance and configures Honeybadger with a fixed reporting key., The reporter adds the full options object, including apiKey, to Honeybadger's global error context., Reporter errors and unhandled rejections automatically call Honeybadger's notification path., The bundled Honeybadger client defaults to api.honeybadger.io.

- **Evidence against:** The package is described as a Playwright reporter that sends test-run data to NeetoPlaydash., The CLI wrapper runs Playwright and forwards reporter options through environment variables.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter@4.0.6.

- Avoid installing @bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter@4.0.6. Remove it from direct dependencies and check your lockfile for transitive copies.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
- If this version ran, investigate the affected machine and build environment. Rotate credentials it could access and rebuild from a trusted environment.

## 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@4.0.6/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. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

### 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@4.0.6/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. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** index.cjs.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter@4.0.6/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=qe.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 */Wp=Jp,Vp=Jp.exports,function(e){var t=Vp,n=Wp&&Wp.exports==t&&Wp,i="object"==typeof F&&F;i.global!==i&&i.window!==i||(e=i);var o,a,r,s...
```

### 11. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** bin/neetoplaydash.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter@4.0.6/bin/neetoplaydash.mjs>)

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: bin/neetoplaydash.mjs spawns index.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L2: 
L3: import { spawn } from "child_process";
L4: import { createRequire } from "module";
...
L25: 
L26: const env = { ...process.env };
L27: const playwrightArgs = [];
...
L52: const playwrightCli = createRequire(
L53: path.join(process.cwd(), "index.js")
L54: ).resolve("@playwright/test/cli");
...
L59: })
L60: .on("close", exitCode => process.exit(exitCode ?? 1))
L61: .on("error", error => {
```

### 12. 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@4.0.6/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=qe.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 */Wp=Jp,Vp=Jp.exports,function(e){var t=Vp,n=Wp&&Wp.exports==t&&Wp,i="object"==typeof F&&F;i.global!==i&&i.window!==i||(e=i);var o,a,r,s...
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 15. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

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:** 8
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 1
- **Development dependencies:** 26
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 9

### 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)
- p-retry ^6.2.1 (Dependency)
- ramda ^0.30.1 (Dependency)
- wtf-8 ^1.0.1 (Dependency)
- @playwright/test ^1.63.0 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 4.0.6
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-11-03T06:27:14.119Z
- **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.
- **Runtime engines:** npm: \>=9, node: \>=22.13, yarn: \>=1.22
- **Artifact files:** 10
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,720,580 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@bigbinary/neeto-playwright-reporter/v/4.0.6>)
