---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@carbon/colors/v/11.60.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@carbon/colors/v/11.60.0.md"
package: "@carbon/colors"
report_status: "published"
title: "@carbon/colors@11.60.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "11.60.0"
---

# @carbon/colors@11.60.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 5 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:** 11.60.0
- **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.

The install hook and endpoint are disclosed in package source and align with IBM telemetry for this package. The inspected entrypoints expose generated color data, with no concrete malicious behavior found.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-10T01:31:57.060Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-10T01:32:32.163Z
- **Download time:** 1023 ms
- **Static scan time:** 65 ms
- **AI review time:** 34014 ms
- **Total time:** 35103 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. The automatic postinstall hook runs IBM telemetry with a package-shipped configuration.

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

- **Impact:** The package sends dependency telemetry; inspected source shows no credential collection, unrelated destination, or other attack behavior.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-10T01:32:32.163Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The hook invokes IBM telemetry, configured to collect npm dependency information and send it to IBM’s telemetry endpoint.

- **Rationale:** The install hook and endpoint are disclosed in package source and align with IBM telemetry for this package. The inspected entrypoints expose generated color data, with no concrete malicious behavior found.

- **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 invokes IBM telemetry using the package’s telemetry configuration., The configuration sends npm dependency telemetry to an IBM endpoint; the inspected entrypoints contain generated color exports, and no attack behavior was identified.

- **Evidence against:** The telemetry hook runs automatically during installation and its configuration includes npm dependencies.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @carbon/colors@11.60.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @carbon/colors@11.60.0 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@11.60.0/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@11.60.0/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@11.60.0/package.json>)

The postinstall hook invokes IBM telemetry using the package’s telemetry configuration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"postinstall": "ibmtelemetry --config=telemetry.yml"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@carbon/cli": "^11.52.0",
    "@ca
```

### 5. Low: Suspicious Dependency Evidence
- **Category:** Dependency
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** telemetry.yml
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@carbon/colors@11.60.0/telemetry.yml>)

The configuration sends npm dependency telemetry to an IBM endpoint; the inspected entrypoints contain generated color exports, and no attack behavior was identified.

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
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 8
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @carbon/colors
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 11.60.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-10-07T15:01:56.291Z
- **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:** 12
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 124,642 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@carbon/colors/v/11.60.0>)
- [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>)
