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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@clerk/clerk-js/v/6.23.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@clerk/clerk-js/v/6.23.0.md"
package: "@clerk/clerk-js"
report_status: "published"
title: "@clerk/clerk-js@6.23.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "6.23.0"
---

# @clerk/clerk-js@6.23.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 8 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:** 6.23.0
- **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.

Direct source inspection found a normal published Clerk browser authentication bundle with no lifecycle hooks, no install-time execution, and no evidence of credential harvesting, persistence, destructive behavior, or AI-agent control-surface mutation. The suspicious scanner signals are attributable to minified bundled artifacts, expected browser network APIs, third-party wallet/payment/captcha integrations, and bundled password-strength data.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 93.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-05T02:18:37.712Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-05T02:19:25.707Z
- **Download time:** 1032 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3669 ms
- **AI review time:** 43293 ms
- **Total time:** 47995 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 confirmed malicious attack surface was established. Runtime network and browser storage behavior is expected for a browser authentication SDK.

- **Trigger:** Application imports or loads ClerkJS at runtime

- **Impact:** Expected user authentication/session management; no install-time or hidden persistence behavior found

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, no-rhc/index.js, dist/clerk.js, dist/clerk.mjs, dist/clerk.native.js, dist/clerk.browser.js, dist/clerk.no-rhc.js, README.md

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-07-05T02:19:25.707Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** browser auth SDK API calls, cookies/localStorage, captcha, telemetry, and wallet/payment integrations

- **Rationale:** Direct source inspection found a normal published Clerk browser authentication bundle with no lifecycle hooks, no install-time execution, and no evidence of credential harvesting, persistence, destructive behavior, or AI-agent control-surface mutation. The suspicious scanner signals are attributable to minified bundled artifacts, expected browser network APIs, third-party wallet/payment/captcha integrations, and bundled password-strength data.

- **Files touched:** package.json, README.md, no-rhc/index.js, dist/clerk.js, dist/clerk.mjs, dist/clerk.native.js, dist/clerk.browser.js, dist/clerk.no-rhc.js

- **Network endpoints:** https://clerk-telemetry.com, https://challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile/v0/api.js?render=explicit, https://dashboard.clerk.com, https://js.stripe.com/v3, https://api.developer.coinbase.com/rpc/v1/base/S-fOd2n2Oi4fl4e1Crm83XeDXZ7tkg8O, https://api.developer.coinbase.com/rpc/v1/base-sepolia/S-fOd2n2Oi4fl4e1Crm83XeDXZ7tkg8O, https://rpc.wallet.coinbase.com, https://keys.coinbase.com, https://go.cb-w.com/walletlink

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 93.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no preinstall/install/postinstall lifecycle hooks; published entries are dist/clerk.js, dist/clerk.mjs, dist/clerk.native.js, and no-rhc wrappers., no-rhc/index.js only requires ../dist/clerk.no-rhc; no package-time execution beyond normal import., Bundled/minified dist files implement Clerk auth SDK runtime behavior, resource fetching, cookies/localStorage/session state, captcha, Stripe, and wallet integrations., Network URLs are package-aligned Clerk/telemetry/captcha/payment/wallet endpoints, not arbitrary exfiltration hosts., No AI-agent control-surface writes or lifecycle mutation strings found for .mcp, CLAUDE, Cursor, .claude, Codex, OPENAI, or ANTHROPIC., Static obfuscation signal is explained by large production bundles and bundled third-party dependencies including zxcvbn password lists and wallet SDK code.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @clerk/clerk-js@6.23.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @clerk/clerk-js@6.23.0 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. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

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

Package source references network APIs.

### 3. High: Copied Package Dependency Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 83.0%
- **Path:** dist/clerk.native.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@clerk/clerk-js@6.23.0/dist/clerk.native.js>)

Package metadata claims a different repository identity while copied source loads a runtime dependency bridge.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
package = @clerk/clerk-js; repositoryIdentity = javascript; dependency = @zxcvbn-ts/core
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```

### 4. Medium: Protestware
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 90.0%

Package source has broad protestware-like patterns that need review.

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

Package source appears deliberately obfuscated.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 8. 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:** 17
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 14
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 17

### Published dependency entries
- @base-org/account 2.0.1 (Dependency)
- @clerk/shared ^4.23.0 (Dependency)
- @coinbase/wallet-sdk 4.3.7 (Dependency)
- @solana/wallet-adapter-base 0.9.27 (Dependency)
- @solana/wallet-adapter-react 0.15.39 (Dependency)
- @solana/wallet-standard 1.1.4 (Dependency)
- @stripe/stripe-js 5.6.0 (Dependency)
- @swc/helpers 0.5.21 (Dependency)
- @tanstack/query-core ^5.100.6 (Dependency)
- @wallet-standard/core 1.1.1 (Dependency)
- @zxcvbn-ts/core 3.0.4 (Dependency)
- @zxcvbn-ts/language-common 3.0.4 (Dependency)
- alien-signals 2.0.6 (Dependency)
- browser-tabs-lock 1.3.0 (Dependency)
- core-js 3.47.0 (Dependency)
- crypto-js ^4.2.0 (Dependency)
- dequal 2.0.3 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @clerk/clerk-js
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 6.23.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-06-30T18:25:39.437Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-05T02:19:25.707Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-03T19:40:20.874Z
- **Known versions:** 28
- **Latest version:** 6.42.2
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Clerk JS library
- **Author:** Clerk
- **Maintainers:** colinclerk, bradenclerk, nikosdouvlis, chanioxaris, jescalan, bkalow, dominic-clerk
- **Keywords:** clerk, auth, authentication, passwordless, session, jwt
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.9.0
- **Artifact files:** 175
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 9,548,596 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@clerk/clerk-js/v/6.23.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/clerk/javascript>)
- [Homepage](<https://clerk.com/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/clerk/javascript/issues>)