---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@contentful/experience-design-system-cli/v/2.37.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@contentful/experience-design-system-cli/v/2.37.0.md"
package: "@contentful/experience-design-system-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@contentful/experience-design-system-cli@2.37.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "2.37.0"
---

# @contentful/experience-design-system-cli@2.37.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 12 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:** 2.37.0
- **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.

Source inspection found no install hook or concrete attack behavior. Scanner signals correspond to command forwarding, local debug logging, project documentation parsing, and CLI telemetry.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 96.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-18T00:13:19.758Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-18T00:14:05.045Z
- **Download time:** 1283 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2178 ms
- **AI review time:** 41826 ms
- **Total time:** 45287 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 in the inspected package source. The flagged process, documentation parsing, debug logging, and analytics behaviors align with the CLI's functions.

- **Trigger:** The CLI runs when invoked by a user; debug logs are recorded when a debug run is active, and analytics events are sent during CLI sessions and commands.

- **Impact:** The inspected behaviors support CLI operation and do not establish unauthorized execution, credential disclosure, or harmful mutation.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-18T00:14:05.045Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The CLI forwards commands to its legacy implementation, parses project documentation, writes debug records locally, and sends command telemetry that can be disabled.

- **Rationale:** Source inspection found no install hook or concrete attack behavior. Scanner signals correspond to command forwarding, local debug logging, project documentation parsing, and CLI telemetry.

- **Files touched:** package.json, dist/index.js, dist/app.js, legacy/dist/src/index.js

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 96.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest exposes a CLI entrypoint and has no install lifecycle hook., The flagged legacy code reads AGENTS.md as project documentation and extracts component relationships from its text., The runtime hints render debug logs and write them to a local session directory., The app reads a debug setting and redacts the Contentful management token before recording inputs or outputs., Legacy analytics sends CLI session and command events and supports disabling analytics.

- **Evidence against:** The reported child process launches the package's legacy CLI to handle explicit commands; source inspection found no attack behavior in that path.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @contentful/experience-design-system-cli@2.37.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @contentful/experience-design-system-cli@2.37.0 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. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@contentful/experience-design-system-cli@2.37.0/dist/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L567: // packages/experience-design-system-cli/src/tui/import/spawn-v1-import.ts
L568: import { spawn as spawn2 } from "node:child_process";
L569: function buildArgs(options) {
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 6. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@contentful/experience-design-system-cli@2.37.0/dist/index.js>)

Source spawns a local helper that also contains network and dynamic execution context; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Cross-file remote execution chain: dist/index.js spawns legacy/dist/src/index.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L18: while (true) {
L19: const manifestPath = join(dir, "package.json");
L20: if (existsSync(manifestPath)) {
L21: const pkg2 = JSON.parse(readFileSync(manifestPath, "utf8"));
L22: if (pkg2.name === packageName) found = dir;
...
L115: try {
L116: const response = await fetch(TAGS_URL);
L117: if (!response.ok) return { status: "error" };
...
L142: import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
L143: import { useStdout } from "ink";
L144: function readColumns(stdout) {
...
L463: function expandHome(value) {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 8. Low: Telemetry
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 10. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** legacy/dist/src/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@contentful/experience-design-system-cli@2.37.0/legacy/dist/src/index.js>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_alias_growth_limit_exceeded; limitedFiles = 1
```

### 11. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** legacy/dist/src/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@contentful/experience-design-system-cli@2.37.0/legacy/dist/src/index.js>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = @contentful/experience-design-system-cli@2.30.0
matchedIdentity = npm:[redacted]:2.30.0
similarity = 0.500
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

### 12. Low: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 96.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@contentful/experience-design-system-cli@2.37.0/package.json>)

The manifest exposes a CLI entrypoint and has no install lifecycle hook.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"bin": {
    "experience-design-system-cli": "./bin/cli.js",
    "experiences": "./bin/cli.js",
    "exo": "./bin/cli.js"
  },
  "main": "./dist/index.js",
  "exports": {
    ".": "./dist/index.js",
    "./app": {
      "types": "./dist/app.d.ts",
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 15
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 9
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 15

### Published dependency entries
- @contentful/experience-design-system-types 2.37.0 (Dependency)
- @inkjs/ui ^2.0.0 (Dependency)
- @segment/analytics-node ^3.0.0 (Dependency)
- @vue/compiler-sfc ^3.5.31 (Dependency)
- commander ^13.1.0 (Dependency)
- contentful-management ^12.17.0 (Dependency)
- figures 6.1.0 (Dependency)
- ink ^5.2.1 (Dependency)
- ink-text-input ^6.0.0 (Dependency)
- react ^18.3.1 (Dependency)
- react-devtools-core ^4.19.1 (Dependency)
- semver ^7.7.2 (Dependency)
- svelte ^5.56.4 (Dependency)
- ts-morph ^27.0.2 (Dependency)
- typescript ^5.9.3 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @contentful/experience-design-system-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.37.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-08T17:21:13.481Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T13:47:41.679Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-03T19:20:14.290Z
- **Known versions:** 39
- **Latest version:** 2.42.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Contentful Experiences design system import CLI
- **Maintainers:** it-internal, whydah-gally, contentful-ecosystem, michaelpearce
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=24
- **Artifact files:** 289
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,677,728 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@contentful/experience-design-system-cli/v/2.37.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/contentful/experience-design-system-sdk-public>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/contentful/experience-design-system-sdk-public#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/contentful/experience-design-system-sdk-public/issues>)
