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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@clerk/clerk-js/v/6.25.12"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@clerk/clerk-js/v/6.25.12.md"
package: "@clerk/clerk-js"
report_status: "published"
title: "@clerk/clerk-js@6.25.12 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "6.25.12"
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# @clerk/clerk-js@6.25.12 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:** 6.25.12
- **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 static warning is explained by minified production bundles and legitimate network-capable authentication/wallet code. Source inspection found no lifecycle hook, local host access, execution primitive, persistence, or concrete exfiltration chain.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 97.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-29T19:58:08.106Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-29T19:58:44.390Z
- **Download time:** 1531 ms
- **Static scan time:** 4091 ms
- **AI review time:** 30661 ms
- **Total time:** 36284 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 malicious install-time or import-time attack surface was confirmed. Runtime network requests implement Clerk authentication, optional telemetry, and declared wallet integrations.

- **Trigger:** An application imports and initializes Clerk, then performs authentication, telemetry, or wallet actions.

- **Impact:** Expected authentication/session and optional integration traffic; no credential harvesting or host mutation found.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/clerk.mjs, dist/clerk.native.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-07-29T19:58:44.390Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Browser SDK API and telemetry requests

- **Rationale:** The static warning is explained by minified production bundles and legitimate network-capable authentication/wallet code. Source inspection found no lifecycle hook, local host access, execution primitive, persistence, or concrete exfiltration chain.

- **Files touched:** package.json, dist/clerk.js, dist/clerk.mjs, dist/clerk.native.js

- **Network endpoints:** https://clerk-telemetry.com, https://rpc.wallet.coinbase.com, https://js.stripe.com/v3

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 97.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no preinstall/install/postinstall hooks., Entrypoints are bundled browser/authentication SDK code, not install-time executables., No child-process, filesystem-write, eval, or AI-agent config access found in reviewed entrypoints., Telemetry is configurable/disableable and posts buffered SDK events to Clerk's telemetry host., Wallet and authentication requests are runtime features triggered by application/user flows.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @clerk/clerk-js@6.25.12.

- Review the evidence and your use of @clerk/clerk-js@6.25.12 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@6.25.12/dist/clerk.native.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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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 ^4.25.9 (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:** 6.25.12
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-07-29T19:55:48.111Z
- **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, jescalan, brkalow-clerk, dominic-clerk
- **Keywords:** clerk, auth, authentication, passwordless, session, jwt
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.9.0
- **Artifact files:** 176
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 9,597,325 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/6.25.12>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/clerk/javascript>)
- [Homepage](<https://clerk.com/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/clerk/javascript/issues>)
