---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@contentful/experience-design-system-cli/v/2.39.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@contentful/experience-design-system-cli/v/2.39.0.md"
package: "@contentful/experience-design-system-cli"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "@contentful/experience-design-system-cli@2.39.0 npm security report"
verdict: "manual_review"
version: "2.39.0"
---

# @contentful/experience-design-system-cli@2.39.0 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:** Manual Review
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Under Review
- **Threat category:** Unknown
- **Selected version:** 2.39.0
- **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: manual review; recommendation: manual review. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The inspected CLI uses a Contentful API host by default and sends the token to that configured host. The declared backend pipeline dependency’s prepared source is unresolved, so its behavior cannot be assessed and a clean verdict is not supported.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Manual Review
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 76.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-23T20:54:47.727Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-23T20:57:52.971Z
- **Download time:** 1524 ms
- **Static scan time:** 7416 ms
- **AI review time:** 176303 ms
- **Total time:** 185244 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 confirmed in the inspected CLI source. The declared backend pipeline dependency remains unassessed because its prepared source was unresolved.

- **Trigger:** A user invokes the CLI; dependency behavior could also activate during installation.

- **Impact:** The available source does not establish an attack, but the unresolved dependency prevents a clean determination.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-23T20:57:52.971Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The CLI sends the CMA token to its configured API host, while the unresolved dependency source prevents assessment of that dependency’s behavior.

- **Rationale:** The inspected CLI uses a Contentful API host by default and sends the token to that configured host. The declared backend pipeline dependency’s prepared source is unresolved, so its behavior cannot be assessed and a clean verdict is not supported.

- **Files touched:** package.json, bin/cli.js, dist/index.js

- **Network endpoints:** api.contentful.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Manual Review

- **Confidence:** 76.0%

- **Recommended action:** manual\_review

- **Intent class:** Unknown

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **AI review observations:** The CLI entrypoint imports dist/index.js when invoked., The manifest declares @contentful/experience-design-system-backend-pipeline at version 2.39.0; its prepared source was unresolved, leaving its behavior unverified., The bundled API client defaults to api.contentful.com, accepts a configured host, and sends its CMA token in a bearer-authenticated request to that host.

- **Evidence against:** The manifest has no install lifecycle hook, and the CLI runs through an explicit command entrypoint., The inspected token request uses the configured API host, which defaults to the Contentful API.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @contentful/experience-design-system-cli@2.39.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @contentful/experience-design-system-cli@2.39.0 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@2.39.0/dist/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1485: // packages/experience-design-system-backend-[redacted]-agent.js
L1486: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L1487: function killProcessTree(pid, signal) {
```

### 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: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@contentful/experience-design-system-cli@2.39.0/dist/index.js>)

Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration.
dist/index.js:
const resolvedPath = resolve6(tsConfigPaths.baseUrl, substitutedTarget);
const baseUrl = parsedConfig.options.baseUrl ?? dirname4(tsConfigPath);
const result = { baseUrl, paths };
import { access as access2, mkdir, readFile as readFile9, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
await writeFile(paths.statePath, JSON.stringify(initialSnapshot, null, 2), "utf8");
await writeFile(paths.eventsPath, "", "utf8");
import { writeFile as writeFile2 } from "node:fs/promises";
await writeFile2(statePath, JSON.stringify(session, null, 2), "utf8");
```

### 7. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/app.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@contentful/experience-design-system-cli@2.39.0/dist/app.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/app.js spawns dist/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 pkg = JSON.parse(readFileSync(manifestPath, "utf8"));
L22: if (pkg.name === packageName) found = dir;
...
L50: try {
L51: const response = await fetch(TAGS_URL);
L52: if (!response.ok) return { status: "error" };
...
L167: function resolveBinary(agent) {
L168: const override = process.env[`EDS_AGENT_BINARY_${agent.toUpperCase()}`];
L169: if (override && override.trim())
...
L335: function describeAgentFailure(result, maxDetail = 800) {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 11. Low: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 76.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@contentful/experience-design-system-cli@2.39.0/bin/cli.js>)

The CLI entrypoint imports dist/index.js when invoked.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
#!/usr/bin/env node
await import("../dist/index.js");
```

### 12. Low: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 76.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@contentful/experience-design-system-cli@2.39.0/package.json>)

The manifest declares @contentful/experience-design-system-backend-pipeline at version 2.39.0; its prepared source was unresolved, leaving its behavior unverified.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"@contentful/experience-design-system-backend-pipeline": "2.39.0",
    "@contentful/experience-design-system-types": "2.39.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@tsconfig/node24": "^
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 18
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 11
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 18

### Published dependency entries
- @contentful/experience-design-system-backend-pipeline 2.39.0 (Dependency)
- @contentful/experience-design-system-types 2.39.0 (Dependency)
- @inkjs/ui ^2.0.0 (Dependency)
- @segment/analytics-node ^3.0.0 (Dependency)
- @vue/compiler-sfc ^3.5.31 (Dependency)
- ajv ^8.18.0 (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)
- zod ^4.6.5 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @contentful/experience-design-system-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.39.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-23T20:50:56.954Z
- **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:** 212
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,775,907 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@contentful/experience-design-system-cli/v/2.39.0>)
- [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>)
