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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@empiricalrun/playwright-utils/v/0.58.6"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@empiricalrun/playwright-utils/v/0.58.6.md"
package: "@empiricalrun/playwright-utils"
report_status: "published"
title: "@empiricalrun/playwright-utils@0.58.6 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.58.6"
---

# @empiricalrun/playwright-utils@0.58.6 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 16 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:** 0.58.6
- **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.

Static inspection found package-aligned, caller-invoked Playwright utilities with configuration-gated network and reporting behavior, not an unconsented execution or exfiltration chain. The scanner's credential-exfiltration label conflates use of supplied service keys with authenticated API calls.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 97.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-20T17:38:11.312Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-20T17:39:56.245Z
- **Download time:** 763 ms
- **Static scan time:** 424 ms
- **AI review time:** 103746 ms
- **Total time:** 104933 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. Network and file actions belong to caller-invoked Playwright utilities and explicitly configured reporting features.

- **Trigger:** Consumer invokes webhook, reporter, telemetry, or report-merge utilities.

- **Impact:** Expected test artifacts and telemetry may be sent only when the corresponding utility and configuration are used.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/index.js, dist/webhook.js, dist/api-worker-client.js, dist/telemetry.js, dist/reporter/uploader.js, dist/reporter/local-test.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-20T17:39:56.245Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Configured testing, reporting, and service API calls.

- **Rationale:** Static inspection found package-aligned, caller-invoked Playwright utilities with configuration-gated network and reporting behavior, not an unconsented execution or exfiltration chain. The scanner's credential-exfiltration label conflates use of supplied service keys with authenticated API calls.

- **Files touched:** dist/index.js, dist/webhook.js, dist/api-worker-client.js, dist/telemetry.js, dist/reporter/uploader.js, dist/reporter/local-test.js

- **Network endpoints:** https://api.empirical.run, https://webhook.site, https://inbox.empirical.run, https://telemetry-worker.empirical-run.workers.dev, https://reports-r2.empirical.run

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 97.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** No npm lifecycle hook is declared; scripts are development/test commands., Main entrypoint only re-exports utilities., Webhook requests require caller invocation and configured API credentials., Reporter uploads are enabled only with explicit project, run, backend, and storage configuration., Telemetry is opt-in via a dedicated telemetry key., Playwright process execution is confined to an explicit report-merge helper.

- **Evidence against:** No install-time, import-time, hidden payload, eval/vm, or remote code-loading behavior found., Network calls target declared Empirical, webhook.site, and configured storage services for package-aligned testing/reporting features., Credentials are used as authentication headers for the configured service, not collected and forwarded to an unrelated endpoint.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @empiricalrun/playwright-utils@0.58.6.

- Review the evidence and your use of @empiricalrun/playwright-utils@0.58.6 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/reporter/local-test.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@empiricalrun/playwright-utils@0.58.6/dist/reporter/local-test.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: exports.mergeForLocalTest = mergeForLocalTest;
L7: const child_process_1 = require("child_process");
L8: const path_1 = __importDefault(require("path"));
```

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

Package source references shell execution.

### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/kv.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@empiricalrun/playwright-utils@0.58.6/dist/kv.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: exports.KVClient = void 0;
L4: const api_worker_client_1 = require("./api-worker-client");
L5: class KVClient {
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/webhook.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@empiricalrun/playwright-utils@0.58.6/dist/webhook.js>)

Source appears to send environment or credential material to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: // ── webhook.site provider ──
L7: const WEBHOOK_SITE_BASE_URL = "https://webhook.site";
L8: const DEFAULT_TOKEN_EXPIRY = 604800;
...
L20: const expiry = options.expiry === undefined ? DEFAULT_TOKEN_EXPIRY : options.expiry;
L21: if (process.env.EMPIRICALRUN_API_KEY) {
L22: const apiClient = new api_worker_client_1.ApiWorkerClient();
...
L25: path: "/token",
L26: body: { expiry },
L27: });
...
L43: if (!response.ok) {
L44: const body = await response.text().catch(() => "");
L45: throw new Error(`webhook.site error [${response.status} ${response.statusText}]: ${body}`);
```

### 9. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/webhook.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@empiricalrun/playwright-utils@0.58.6/dist/webhook.js>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: manifest.main -> dist/index.js -> dist/webhook.js
L6: // ── webhook.site provider ──
L7: const WEBHOOK_SITE_BASE_URL = "https://webhook.site";
L8: const DEFAULT_TOKEN_EXPIRY = 604800;
...
L20: const expiry = options.expiry === undefined ? DEFAULT_TOKEN_EXPIRY : options.expiry;
L21: if (process.env.EMPIRICALRUN_API_KEY) {
L22: const apiClient = new api_worker_client_1.ApiWorkerClient();
...
L25: path: "/token",
L26: body: { expiry },
L27: });
...
L43: if (!response.ok) {
L44: const body = await response.text().catch(() => "");
L45: throw new Error(`webhook.site error [${response.status} ${response.statusText}]: ${body}`);
```

### 10. High: Trigger Reachable Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/webhook.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@empiricalrun/playwright-utils@0.58.6/dist/webhook.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches credential exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable credential exfiltration chain: manifest.main -> dist/index.js -> dist/webhook.js
L6: // ── webhook.site provider ──
L7: const WEBHOOK_SITE_BASE_URL = "https://webhook.site";
L8: const DEFAULT_TOKEN_EXPIRY = 604800;
...
L20: const expiry = options.expiry === undefined ? DEFAULT_TOKEN_EXPIRY : options.expiry;
L21: if (process.env.EMPIRICALRUN_API_KEY) {
L22: const apiClient = new api_worker_client_1.ApiWorkerClient();
...
L25: path: "/token",
L26: body: { expiry },
L27: });
...
L43: if (!response.ok) {
L44: const body = await response.text().catch(() => "");
L45: throw new Error(`webhook.site error [${response.status} ${response.statusText}]: ${body}`);
```

### 11. High: Trigger Reachable External Post Callback
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/webhook.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@empiricalrun/playwright-utils@0.58.6/dist/webhook.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches a fixed external POST callback.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable fixed external POST callback chain: manifest.main -> dist/index.js -> dist/webhook.js
exports.getWebhookUrl = getWebhookUrl;
exports.queryWebhookRequests = queryWebhookRequests;
// ── webhook.site provider ──
const WEBHOOK_SITE_BASE_URL = "https://webhook.site";
async function webhookSiteGetUrl(options) {
const result = await apiClient.postProviderProxy("/api/webhook-site/proxy", {
method: "POST",
return `${WEBHOOK_SITE_BASE_URL}/${tokenData.uuid}`;
```

### 12. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/reporter/local-test.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@empiricalrun/playwright-utils@0.58.6/dist/reporter/local-test.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L13: try {
L14: (0, child_process_1.execFileSync)("npx", ["playwright", "merge-reports", outputDir, "--reporter", "html,json"], {
L15: cwd: currentWorkingDir,
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 15. 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.

### 16. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

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

- **Dependencies:** 14
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 12
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 14

### Published dependency entries
- @babel/code-frame ^7.24.7 (Dependency)
- @empiricalrun/cua ^0.4.2 (Dependency)
- @empiricalrun/llm ^0.27.1 (Dependency)
- @empiricalrun/r2-uploader ^0.10.2 (Dependency)
- @empiricalrun/reporter ^0.30.0 (Dependency)
- async-retry ^1.3.3 (Dependency)
- authenticator ^1.1.5 (Dependency)
- console-log-level ^1.4.1 (Dependency)
- mime 3.0.0 (Dependency)
- openai ^6.27.0 (Dependency)
- openapi-fetch 0.14.1 (Dependency)
- puppeteer-extra-plugin-recaptcha ^3.6.8 (Dependency)
- rimraf ^6.0.1 (Dependency)
- ts-morph ^23.0.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @empiricalrun/playwright-utils
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.58.6
- **Version published:** 2026-08-19T05:18:32.359Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-14T06:52:18.324Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T05:55:17.545Z
- **Known versions:** 24
- **Latest version:** 0.66.2
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Playwright utils for test code repos of our customers
- **Author:** Empirical Team
- **Maintainers:** arjun27
- **Artifact files:** 226
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,000,925 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@empiricalrun/playwright-utils/v/0.58.6>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/empirical-run/empirical>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/empirical-run/empirical#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/empirical-run/empirical/issues>)
