---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@carbon/colors/v/11.57.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@carbon/colors/v/11.57.0.md"
package: "@carbon/colors"
report_status: "published"
title: "@carbon/colors@11.57.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "11.57.0"
---

# @carbon/colors@11.57.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 7 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:** 11.57.0
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Static inspection found a postinstall telemetry hook directed to IBM’s telemetry endpoint and color-constant entrypoints. The source inspected does not establish malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-10T01:31:43.451Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-10T01:32:04.702Z
- **Download time:** 1040 ms
- **Static scan time:** 50 ms
- **AI review time:** 20161 ms
- **Total time:** 21251 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 malicious attack surface was identified. The install hook invokes the IBM telemetry CLI using a package-provided configuration.

- **Trigger:** Package installation triggers the postinstall hook.

- **Impact:** Telemetry collection is configured, but the inspected source does not establish credential theft, unrelated file harvesting, or other malicious behavior.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-10T01:32:04.702Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The hook passes telemetry.yml to ibmtelemetry; the inspected configuration selects the IBM telemetry endpoint and metrics categories.

- **Rationale:** Static inspection found a postinstall telemetry hook directed to IBM’s telemetry endpoint and color-constant entrypoints. The source inspected does not establish malicious behavior.

- **Files touched:** package.json, telemetry.yml

- **Network endpoints:** https://www-api.ibm.com/ibm-telemetry/v1/metrics

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The postinstall hook runs the IBM telemetry CLI with the package’s telemetry config., The config sends metrics to IBM’s telemetry endpoint and selects npm dependencies and JavaScript functions/tokens for collection., The shipped CommonJS and ES entrypoints expose color constants; no attack behavior was identified in the inspected entrypoint excerpts.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @carbon/colors@11.57.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @carbon/colors@11.57.0 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@carbon/colors@11.57.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = ibmtelemetry --config=telemetry.yml
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@carbon/colors@11.57.0/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = ibmtelemetry --config=telemetry.yml
```

### 3. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. Low: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@carbon/colors@11.57.0/package.json>)

The postinstall hook runs the IBM telemetry CLI with the package’s telemetry config.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"postinstall": "ibmtelemetry --config=telemetry.yml"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@carbon/cli": "^11.49.0",
    "@carbon/cli-reporter": "^10.9.0",
    "@carbon/scss-generator":
```

### 5. Low: Suspicious Dependency Evidence
- **Category:** Dependency
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** telemetry.yml
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@carbon/colors@11.57.0/telemetry.yml>)

The config sends metrics to IBM’s telemetry endpoint and selects npm dependencies and JavaScript functions/tokens for collection.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```yaml
version: 1
projectId: 8c6b584f-72b3-499f-9341-bb0afeda0aa8
endpoint: https://www-api.ibm.com/ibm-telemetry/v1/metrics
collect:
  npm:
    dependencies: null
  js:
    functions: {}
    token
```

### 6. Low: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** lib/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@carbon/colors@11.57.0/lib/index.js>)

The shipped CommonJS and ES entrypoints expose color constants; no attack behavior was identified in the inspected entrypoint excerpts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
const black = "#000000";
const black100 = black;
const blackHover = "#212121";
const white = "#ffffff";
const
```

### 7. Low: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** es/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@carbon/colors@11.57.0/es/index.js>)

The shipped CommonJS and ES entrypoints expose color constants; no attack behavior was identified in the inspected entrypoint excerpts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
const black = "#000000";
const black100 = black;
const blackHover = "#212121";
const white = "#ffffff";
const
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 9
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1

### Published dependency entries
- @ibm/telemetry-js ^1.5.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @carbon/colors
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 11.57.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-08-27T13:28:38.831Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T13:36:38.164Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T14:14:25.690Z
- **Known versions:** 6
- **Latest version:** 11.62.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Colors for digital and software products using the Carbon Design System
- **Maintainers:** carbon-design-system, carbon-bot, leechase, jeffreychew, sstrubberg
- **Keywords:** eyeglass-module, ibm, elements, carbon, carbon-elements, carbon-design-system, components, react
- **Artifact files:** 11
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 105,816 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@carbon/colors/v/11.57.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/carbon-design-system/carbon>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/carbon-design-system/carbon#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/carbon-design-system/carbon/issues>)
