---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@checksum-ai/runtime"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@checksum-ai/runtime/v/4.12.0.md"
package: "@checksum-ai/runtime"
report_status: "published"
title: "@checksum-ai/runtime@4.12.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "4.12.0"
---

# @checksum-ai/runtime@4.12.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 19 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 4.12.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

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.

Static analysis flagged 19 finding(s) at 72.0% 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
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 72.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-22T13:38:30.071Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-22T13:38:32.043Z
- **Download time:** 1258 ms
- **Static scan time:** 713 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 1972 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

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

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @checksum-ai/runtime@4.12.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @checksum-ai/runtime@4.12.0 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. Critical: Critical Secret
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** .env
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@checksum-ai/runtime@4.12.0/.env>)

Package contains a critical-looking secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
patternName = blocked_file
severity = critical
matchedText = .env
redactedSecretContext =
secretLikeLines = 1
L1: CHECKSUM_RUNTIME_BUILD_TIME=<redacted:24 token-like>
```

### 2. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@checksum-ai/runtime@4.12.0/postinstall.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: const path = require("path");
L3: const { exec } = require("child_process");
L4:
```

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

Package source references shell execution.

### 4. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** checksumlib.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@checksum-ai/runtime@4.12.0/checksumlib.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L74: now you can use replayer.getMirror() to access the mirror instance of a replayer,\r
L75: or you can use record.mirror to access the mirror instance during recording.`,jb={map:{},getId(){return console.error(pi),-1},getNode(){return console.error(pi),null},removeNodeFro...
L76: ${t.locator}`);r!==null&&this.sessionRecorder.addCustomEvent("assertion",{matcher:`toHaveText("${r}")`,locator:t.locator})},"toHaveTextHandler");this.toBeVisibleHandler=a(()=>e=>{l...
```

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@checksum-ai/runtime@4.12.0/postinstall.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: const fs = require("fs");
L2: const path = require("path");
```

### 6. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** scripts/playwright\_patches/1.52.0.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@checksum-ai/runtime@4.12.0/scripts/playwright_patches/1.52.0.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L294: //   reported: false,
L295: //   userData: undefined,
L296: //   stepId: undefined
...
L370: 
L371: const isRuntime = true || process.env.RUNTIME === "true";
L372:
```

### 7. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 8. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 10. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@checksum-ai/runtime@4.12.0/postinstall.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L30: return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
L31: exec("npx playwright install", (error, stdout, stderr) => {
L32: if (error) {
```

### 11. High: Obfuscated
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source appears deliberately obfuscated.

### 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: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@checksum-ai/runtime@4.12.0/index.js>)

Package contains source files above the normal full-analysis size ceiling.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = index.js
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 6191606
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 15. Medium: Oversized Cli Entrypoint
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@checksum-ai/runtime@4.12.0/cli.js>)

Package contains an oversized executable-looking CLI entrypoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = cli.js
kind = oversized_cli_entrypoint
sizeBytes = 6322799
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.

### 17. Medium: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** checksum-root/checksum.config.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@checksum-ai/runtime@4.12.0/checksum-root/checksum.config.ts>)

Hardcoded password in checksum-root/checksum.config.ts

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
patternName = generic_password
severity = medium
line = 44
matchedText = password...d>",
```

### 18. Medium: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** README.md
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@checksum-ai/runtime@4.12.0/README.md>)

Hardcoded password in README.md

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```markdown
patternName = generic_password
severity = medium
line = 110
matchedText = password...d>",
```

### 19. Medium: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** README.md
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@checksum-ai/runtime@4.12.0/README.md>)

Hardcoded password in README.md

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```markdown
patternName = generic_password
severity = medium
line = 115
matchedText = password...d>",
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 11
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 11

### Published dependency entries
- @playwright/test 1.60.0 (Dependency)
- dotenv ^16.4.5 (Dependency)
- htmlparser2 10.0.0 (Dependency)
- jsdom ^25.0.1 (Dependency)
- newrelic ^13.12.0 (Dependency)
- playwright-extra ^4.3.6 (Dependency)
- puppeteer-extra-plugin ^3.2.3 (Dependency)
- puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth ^2.11.2 (Dependency)
- rrweb 2.0.0-alpha.18 (Dependency)
- sharp ^0.33.5 (Dependency)
- sucrase ^3.35.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @checksum-ai/runtime
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 4.12.0
- **License:** ISC
- **Version published:** 2026-07-22T13:37:37.772Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T07:40:11.255Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-02T10:14:38.645Z
- **Known versions:** 27
- **Latest version:** 5.5.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Checksum.ai test runtime
- **Author:** checksum.ai
- **Maintainers:** jonaszjestem, checksum-ai, gal-checksum
- **Keywords:** checksum, checksum-ai, playwright, test
- **Artifact files:** 32
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 18,304,753 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@checksum-ai/runtime/v/4.12.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/checksum-ai/checksum-ai-monorepo>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/checksum-ai/checksum-ai-monorepo/tree/main/packages/runtime#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/checksum-ai/checksum-ai-monorepo/issues>)
