---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@carbon/styles/v/1.116.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@carbon/styles/v/1.116.0.md"
package: "@carbon/styles"
report_status: "published"
title: "@carbon/styles@1.116.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "1.116.0"
---

# @carbon/styles@1.116.0 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:** 1.116.0
- **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 postinstall hook is a package-aligned IBM telemetry invocation using its supplied configuration. The inspected source does not establish malicious collection or other concrete attack behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-10T01:34:26.647Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-10T01:34:47.037Z
- **Download time:** 761 ms
- **Static scan time:** 52 ms
- **AI review time:** 19576 ms
- **Total time:** 20390 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 postinstall hook invokes IBM telemetry with a package-supplied configuration.

- **Trigger:** Installation of the package, which runs its postinstall script.

- **Impact:** Telemetry may be sent to IBM; no credential theft, consumer project mutation, or other concrete attack surface was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-10T01:34:47.037Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The hook runs the ibmtelemetry CLI with telemetry.yml; the configuration names IBM's telemetry endpoint and leaves JavaScript function collection empty.

- **Rationale:** The postinstall hook is a package-aligned IBM telemetry invocation using its supplied configuration. The inspected source does not establish malicious collection or other concrete attack behavior.

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

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

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **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 own configuration., The configuration names IBM's telemetry endpoint and leaves JavaScript function collection empty; no malicious behavior is established.

- **Evidence against:** The package runs a postinstall script that may transmit telemetry.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @carbon/styles@1.116.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @carbon/styles@1.116.0 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/styles@1.116.0/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/styles@1.116.0/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:** 91.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@carbon/styles@1.116.0/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"postinstall": "ibmtelemetry --config=telemetry.yml"
  },
  "peerDependencies": {
    "sass": "^1.33.0"
  },
  "peerDependenciesMeta": {
    "sass": {
      "optional": true
    }
```

### 5. Low: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Path:** telemetry.yml
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@carbon/styles@1.116.0/telemetry.yml>)

The configuration names IBM's telemetry endpoint and leaves JavaScript function collection empty; no malicious behavior is established.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```yaml
projectId: d2574dfc-6ec7-4d1a-9c7a-b22cc16dc747
endpoint: https://www-api.ibm.com/ibm-telemetry/v1/metrics
collect:
  npm:
    dependencies: null
  js:
    functions: {}
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 17
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 1
- **Development dependencies:** 9
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 18

### Published dependency entries
- @carbon/colors ^11.59.0 (Dependency)
- @carbon/feature-flags ^1.10.0 (Dependency)
- @carbon/grid ^11.63.0 (Dependency)
- @carbon/layout ^11.60.0 (Dependency)
- @carbon/motion ^11.53.0 (Dependency)
- @carbon/themes ^11.82.0 (Dependency)
- @carbon/type ^11.68.0 (Dependency)
- @ibm/plex 6.4.1 (Dependency)
- @ibm/plex-mono 2.5.0 (Dependency)
- @ibm/plex-sans 1.1.0 (Dependency)
- @ibm/plex-sans-arabic 1.1.0 (Dependency)
- @ibm/plex-sans-devanagari 1.1.0 (Dependency)
- @ibm/plex-sans-hebrew 1.1.0 (Dependency)
- @ibm/plex-sans-thai 1.1.0 (Dependency)
- @ibm/plex-sans-thai-looped 1.1.0 (Dependency)
- @ibm/plex-serif 2.0.0 (Dependency)
- @ibm/telemetry-js ^1.5.0 (Dependency)
- sass ^1.33.0 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @carbon/styles
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.116.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-09-23T14:55:10.279Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T13:35:28.045Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T14:14:38.239Z
- **Known versions:** 6
- **Latest version:** 1.119.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Styles for the Carbon Design System
- **Maintainers:** carbon-bot, sstrubberg
- **Keywords:** ibm, carbon, carbon-design-system, components, react
- **Artifact files:** 375
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 3,714,140 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@carbon/styles/v/1.116.0>)
- [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>)
