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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@bongos/core/v/1.20.25"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@bongos/core/v/1.20.25.md"
package: "@bongos/core"
report_status: "published"
title: "@bongos/core@1.20.25 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "1.20.25"
---

# @bongos/core@1.20.25 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 31 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:** 1.20.25
- **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 manifest has no install lifecycle hooks, and inspected runtime findings map to ordinary CLI, metrics, test, and lint behavior. The scanner hints do not establish a concrete attack in source.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 82.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-18T00:58:45.111Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-18T01:00:20.426Z
- **Download time:** 3293 ms
- **Static scan time:** 15443 ms
- **AI review time:** 76578 ms
- **Total time:** 95315 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. Runtime behavior reviewed here supports the package's CLI, server metrics, grader, and project setup functions.

- **Trigger:** Normal package import or a user-run CLI command; the inspected skill-lint hook runs when configured or explicitly invoked.

- **Impact:** No confirmed attack surface was established by these source excerpts.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-18T01:00:20.426Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The reviewed runtime matches normalize request paths and collect metrics, while skill-lint checks a changed skill file and prints findings. No credential transfer, lifecycle mutation, or unconsented agent-control change was established.

- **Rationale:** The manifest has no install lifecycle hooks, and inspected runtime findings map to ordinary CLI, metrics, test, and lint behavior. The scanner hints do not establish a concrete attack in source.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 82.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest defines package entry points and ordinary runtime dependencies but no lifecycle scripts; the inspected skill-lint hook only reads a touched skill file and prints lint results., The flagged runtime excerpts perform route normalization and metric handling, while the skill-lint account-action match is console output from an explicitly invoked or configured hook., The reviewed agent-related excerpts concern project documentation, worktree detection, transcript paths, CLI materialization, and generated module files; they do not establish an unconsented foreign agent configuration change.

- **Evidence against:** Static hints flag dynamic loading, child-process use, a secret-like test fixture, Unicode in a prompt-fencing test, and a runtime package-manager call; source context identifies normal CLI, tests, and quality tooling rather than a package install attack.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @bongos/core@1.20.25.

- Review the evidence and your use of @bongos/core@1.20.25 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. Critical: Critical Secret
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** tests/public\_mirror\_export.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bongos/core@1.20.25/tests/public_mirror_export.mjs>)

Package contains a critical-looking secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = aws_access_key
severity = critical
line = 103
```

### 2. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/bongos.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bongos/core@1.20.25/bin/bongos.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L19: const path = require('node:path');
L20: const { spawnSync } = require('node:child_process');
L21:
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** scripts/setup-builder.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bongos/core@1.20.25/scripts/setup-builder.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L71: // and never spread from caller-supplied opts: shell:true on Windows runs the
L72: // args through cmd.exe expansion, so it's used ONLY for `npm` (a .cmd shim that
L73: // can't be spawned without a shell) and ONLY with hardcoded args — never with
```

### 4. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** public-docs/redoc.standalone.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bongos/core@1.20.25/public-docs/redoc.standalone.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: /*! For license information please see redoc.standalone.js.LICENSE.txt */
L2: !function(e,t){"object"==typeof exports&&"object"==typeof module?module.exports=t(require("null")):"function"==typeof define&&define.amd?define(["null"],t):"object"==typeof exports...
L3: || (${a} == "string" && ${i} && ${i} == +${i})`).assign(l,s._`+${i}`);case"integer":return void n.elseIf(s._`${a} === "boolean" || ${i} === null
```

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/bongos.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bongos/core@1.20.25/bin/bongos.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L18: 
L19: const path = require('node:path');
L20: const { spawnSync } = require('node:child_process');
```

### 6. Medium: Unsafe Vm Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 68.0%
- **Path:** tests/hall\_profile\_world.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bongos/core@1.20.25/tests/hall_profile_world.mjs>)

Package source executes code through a VM context API.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L38: //   node modules/ui-design/kit/render.js --states modules/hall-ui/public/profile.states.json \
L39: //     --base-in http://builders.localhost:4621 --base-out http://builders.localhost:4621
L40: 
...
L169: },
L170: console, Date, Map, Set, Math, Number, String, Array, Infinity, URLSearchParams,
L171: };
...
L184: // deep-equal against a literal here fails on identity alone; compare the data.
L185: const plain = (v) => JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(v));
L186: 
...
L354: assert.ok(own.mount.innerHTML.includes('id="chart-rate"'), 'and the pace chart draws');
L355: assert.ok(own.mount.innerHTML.includes('only you see this one'), 'saying plainly that it is private');
L356: });
```

### 7. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** scripts/gds/fitness-ratchets.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bongos/core@1.20.25/scripts/gds/fitness-ratchets.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L39: const crypto = require('crypto');
L40: const { execFileSync, execSync } = require('child_process');
L41: 
L42: const ROOT = path.resolve(__dirname, '..', '..');
L43: const BASELINE_PATH = path.join(ROOT, 'config', 'fitness-baselines.json');
...
L89: for (let i = 0; i + window <= lines.length; i++) {
L90: const h = crypto.createHash('sha1').update(lines.slice(i, i + window).join('\n')).digest('base64');
L91: let set = filesByHash.get(h);
...
L208: //   main checkout (knip local)   -> 221
L209: //   worktree      (knip ambient) -> 222, the extra being `binaries: package.json knip`
L210: // Diffed by name, the exports lists were IDENTICAL (221 both sides). knip was
...
L256: } catch (e) {
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 11. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** modules/ui-design/kit/serve.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bongos/core@1.20.25/modules/ui-design/kit/serve.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L27: // Exit 2 on a surface that does not resolve. Prints ONE line when listening
L28: // ("stub on http://…") — render.js and probe.js wait for it.
L29: const http = require('node:http');
...
L33: const crypto = require('node:crypto');
L34: const { spawnSync } = require('node:child_process');
L35: const lib = require('./lib.js');
L36: 
L37: const ROOT = process.env.STUB_REPO ? path.resolve(process.env.STUB_REPO) : lib.REPO_ROOT;
L38: const SURFACE = process.env.SURFACE || 'public-landing';
```

### 12. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** scripts/gds/build-bongos.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bongos/core@1.20.25/scripts/gds/build-bongos.js>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L24: const path = require('node:path');
L25: const { spawnSync } = require('node:child_process');
L26: const { arg } = require('./cli-lib');
L27: 
L28: const REPO_ROOT = path.join(__dirname, '..', '..');
L29: const ENTRY = path.join(REPO_ROOT, 'bin', 'bongos.js');
...
L42: function bunPresent() {
L43: const r = spawnSync('bun', ['--version'], { encoding: 'utf8', shell: process.platform === 'win32' });
L44: return !!r && !r.error && r.status === 0;
...
L66: console.error('✖ `bun` is required to compile the standalone binary but was not found.');
L67: console.error('  Install it (https://bun.sh) — e.g. `curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash` —');
L68: console.error('  or in CI use the oven-sh/setup-bun action. Then re-run.');
```

### 13. High: Cloud Metadata Access
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** modules/security/artifact-scan/fetch.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bongos/core@1.20.25/modules/security/artifact-scan/fetch.js>)

Source reaches cloud instance metadata or link-local credential endpoints.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L10: 
L11: const dns = require('node:dns');
L12: const fsp = require('node:fs/promises');
L13: const path = require('node:path');
L14: const { spawn } = require('node:child_process');
L15: 
...
L19: const MAX_CAPTURE_BYTES = 1 * 1024 * 1024;
L20: // git's stderr can name internal hosts and paths; only a short excerpt travels,
L21: // and only in a finding's detail, never in a message a caller might echo.
...
L50: if (a === 0) return 'the unspecified range';
L51: if (a === 10) return 'a private (RFC 1918) address';
L52: if (a === 172 && b >= 16 && b <= 31) return 'a private (RFC 1918) address';
```

### 14. Critical: Trojan Source Unicode
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** tests/grader\_prompt\_fencing.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bongos/core@1.20.25/tests/grader_prompt_fencing.mjs>)

Source contains bidi control or invisible Unicode characters associated with Trojan Source attacks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L74: contains invisible/control Unicode U+202E (right-to-left override)
  const dirty = `a${'<U+202E>'}b${'<U+202D>'}c${'<U+202A>'}d`;
```

### 15. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** scripts/gds/fitness-ratchets.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bongos/core@1.20.25/scripts/gds/fitness-ratchets.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L246: knipSkipReason = `no knip in ${path.join(ROOT, 'node_modules')} — `
L247: + 'npx would resolve one from outside this tree and report it as an unlisted '
L248: + 'binary, scoring one higher than the same code scores in CI (task 1003987)';
...
L252: try {
L253: raw = execSync('npx --no-install knip --reporter json --no-exit-code', {
L254: cwd: ROOT, encoding: 'utf8', maxBuffer: 32 * 1024 * 1024, stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 19. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** docker-entrypoint.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bongos/core@1.20.25/docker-entrypoint.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = docker-entrypoint.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 1075
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. Low: Copyleft License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest declares a copyleft-style license.

### 22. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** modules/autonomy/pollers/routine-timers.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bongos/core@1.20.25/modules/autonomy/pollers/routine-timers.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 86
```

### 23. Medium: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** public-docs/redoc.standalone.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bongos/core@1.20.25/public-docs/redoc.standalone.js>)

Hardcoded password in public-docs/redoc.standalone.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = generic_password
severity = medium
line = 8
```

### 24. Medium: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** tests/audit\_middleware.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bongos/core@1.20.25/tests/audit_middleware.mjs>)

Hardcoded password in tests/audit\_middleware.mjs

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = generic_password
severity = medium
line = 365
```

### 25. Critical: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** tests/public\_mirror\_export.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bongos/core@1.20.25/tests/public_mirror_export.mjs>)

AWS access key ID in tests/public\_mirror\_export.mjs

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = aws_access_key
severity = critical
line = 103
```

### 26. Medium: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** tests/provision.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bongos/core@1.20.25/tests/provision.mjs>)

Hardcoded password in tests/provision.mjs

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = generic_password
severity = medium
line = 2994
```

### 27. Medium: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** tests/provision.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bongos/core@1.20.25/tests/provision.mjs>)

Hardcoded password in tests/provision.mjs

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = generic_password
severity = medium
line = 3032
```

### 28. Critical: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** tests/auto\_merge\_diagnosis.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bongos/core@1.20.25/tests/auto_merge_diagnosis.mjs>)

GitHub personal access token in tests/auto\_merge\_diagnosis.mjs

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = github_pat
severity = critical
line = 297
```

### 29. Critical: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** tests/logger.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bongos/core@1.20.25/tests/logger.mjs>)

GitHub personal access token in tests/logger.mjs

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = github_pat
severity = critical
line = 62
```

### 30. Critical: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** tests/secret\_gate.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bongos/core@1.20.25/tests/secret_gate.mjs>)

GitHub personal access token in tests/secret\_gate.mjs

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = github_pat
severity = critical
line = 21
```

### 31. High: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** tests/key-status.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bongos/core@1.20.25/tests/key-status.mjs>)

Google API key in tests/key-status.mjs

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 25
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 3
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 3

### Published dependency entries
- express ^4.21.2 (Dependency)
- pg ^8.20.0 (Dependency)
- pino ^9.14.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @bongos/core
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.20.25
- **License:** AGPL-3.0-or-later
- **Version published:** 2026-09-30T19:08:19.346Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-14T05:30:30.110Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-18T01:25:47.455Z
- **Known versions:** 227
- **Latest version:** 1.21.115
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Cloud Bongos — the AI-first build platform core (GDS + platform surfaces + module system), installed as a versioned dependency (ADR 0108).
- **Maintainers:** larsonian, jacksonrini
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22
- **Artifact files:** 3232
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 55,147,528 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@bongos/core/v/1.20.25>)
