---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@eventcatalog/core/v/4.11.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@eventcatalog/core/v/4.11.0.md"
package: "@eventcatalog/core"
report_status: "published"
title: "@eventcatalog/core@4.11.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "4.11.0"
---

# @eventcatalog/core@4.11.0 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:** 4.11.0
- **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.

The scanner’s dynamic-evaluation and runtime-action matches resolve to loading the generated Pagefind module and local search-index operations. Build analytics reports package-aligned usage metadata, while Cloud inventory reporting has explicit configuration gates; the inspected source does not establish a concrete attack surface.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 92.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-18T02:34:44.194Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-18T02:36:47.571Z
- **Download time:** 2284 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2623 ms
- **AI review time:** 118469 ms
- **Total time:** 123377 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 reviewed source. The CLI performs local catalog indexing and package-aligned build analytics.

- **Trigger:** Running the EventCatalog CLI build or development command; cloud inventory reporting additionally requires analytics to be enabled and configured.

- **Impact:** The inspected behavior reports build and catalog usage metadata; it does not establish credential theft or an unrequested account action.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-18T02:36:47.571Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Build telemetry sends catalog metadata to an analytics collector. The separate Cloud inventory request sends aggregate resource counts only when configuration supplies its enable flag, tracking ID, and write key.

- **Rationale:** The scanner’s dynamic-evaluation and runtime-action matches resolve to loading the generated Pagefind module and local search-index operations. Build analytics reports package-aligned usage metadata, while Cloud inventory reporting has explicit configuration gates; the inspected source does not establish a concrete attack surface.

- **Files touched:** package.json, bin/eventcatalog.js, dist/eventcatalog.cjs, eventcatalog/src/components/Search/SearchModal.tsx, eventcatalog/src/components/SchemaExplorer/ExamplesViewer.tsx

- **Network endpoints:** https://queue.simpleanalyticscdn.com/events, https://api.ecingest.dev/v1/analytics/ingest

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 92.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** package.json exposes a CLI and has no install lifecycle hook., The CLI builds a local Pagefind index from catalog records and writes it under the project output directory., Indexed search loads the generated local Pagefind module only when indexed search is active and the modal opens., The flagged example viewer renders supplied examples through ReactMarkdown and syntax highlighting., Build telemetry sends catalog metadata to an EventCatalog-branded analytics event; Cloud inventory reporting requires analytics.enabled, trackingId, and writeKey.

- **Evidence against:** The inspected runtime action matches are local search-index writes and rebuilds triggered by development or build activity., The reviewed credential-related code does not show catalog telemetry sending credentials; the reported hash is derived from catalog file paths and contents.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @eventcatalog/core@4.11.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @eventcatalog/core@4.11.0 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: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** eventcatalog/src/components/Search/SearchModal.tsx
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@eventcatalog/core@4.11.0/eventcatalog/src/components/Search/SearchModal.tsx>)

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```tsx
L137: const loadPagefindModule = (url: string) => {
L138: const nativeImport = new Function('url', 'return import(url)') as (url: string) => Promise<PagefindModule>;
L139: return nativeImport(url);
```

### 3. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/migrations/message-channels-to-service-channels.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@eventcatalog/core@4.11.0/dist/migrations/message-channels-to-service-channels.cjs>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L35: module.exports = __toCommonJS(message_channels_to_service_channels_exports);
L36: var import_node_fs = __toESM(require("fs"), 1);
L37: var import_glob = require("glob");
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/eventcatalog.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@eventcatalog/core@4.11.0/dist/eventcatalog.cjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L30: var import_commander = require("commander");
L31: var import_node_child_process2 = require("child_process");
L32: var import_node_path18 = require("path");
L33: var import_node_http = __toESM(require("http"), 1);
L34: var import_fs3 = __toESM(require("fs"), 1);
...
L88: let configFilePath = import_node_path.default.join(projectDirectory, "eventcatalog.config.js");
L89: const filePath = import_node_path.default.join(projectDirectory, "package.json");
L90: const packageJson = JSON.parse(await (0, import_promises.readFile)(filePath, "utf-8"));
L91: if (packageJson?.type !== "module") {
...
L279: event: "@eventcatalog/eventcatalog",
L280: metadata: {
L281: ...eventData,
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 11. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** eventcatalog/src/components/SchemaExplorer/ExamplesViewer.tsx\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@eventcatalog/core@4.11.0/eventcatalog/src/components/SchemaExplorer/ExamplesViewer.tsx%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 1
```

### 12. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/eventcatalog.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@eventcatalog/core@4.11.0/dist/eventcatalog.cjs>)

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 = @eventcatalog/core@4.10.13
matchedIdentity = npm:QGV2ZW50Y2F0YWxvZy9jb3Jl:4.10.13
similarity = 0.808
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 91
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 27
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 91

### Published dependency entries
- @ai-sdk/react ^3.0.17 (Dependency)
- @astrojs/markdown-remark ^7.3.1 (Dependency)
- @astrojs/mdx ^8.0.1 (Dependency)
- @astrojs/node ^11.1.6 (Dependency)
- @astrojs/react ^6.0.6 (Dependency)
- @astrojs/rss ^4.0.19 (Dependency)
- @asyncapi/avro-schema-parser 3.0.24 (Dependency)
- @asyncapi/parser ^3.6.0 (Dependency)
- @asyncapi/react-component 3.1.0 (Dependency)
- @auth/core ^0.41.3 (Dependency)
- @eventcatalog/license ^0.0.8 (Dependency)
- @eventcatalog/linter 1.1.20 (Dependency)
- @eventcatalog/sdk 2.29.1 (Dependency)
- @eventcatalog/visualiser ^4.1.4 (Dependency)
- @fontsource/inter ^5.2.5 (Dependency)
- @headlessui/react ^2.0.3 (Dependency)
- @heroicons/react ^2.1.3 (Dependency)
- @iconify-json/logos ^1.2.4 (Dependency)
- @mermaid-js/layout-elk ^0.2.0 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.26.0 (Dependency)
- @nanostores/react ^1.0.0 (Dependency)
- @parcel/watcher ^2.4.1 (Dependency)
- @radix-ui/react-context-menu ^2.2.6 (Dependency)
- @radix-ui/react-dialog ^1.1.6 (Dependency)
- @radix-ui/react-dropdown-menu ^2.1.12 (Dependency)
- @radix-ui/react-popover ^1.1.15 (Dependency)
- @radix-ui/react-tooltip ^1.1.8 (Dependency)
- @scalar/api-reference-react ^0.9.36 (Dependency)
- @tailwindcss/typography ^0.5.16 (Dependency)
- @tailwindcss/vite ^4.3.1 (Dependency)
- @tanstack/react-table ^8.17.3 (Dependency)
- @xyflow/react ^12.3.6 (Dependency)
- ai ^6.0.17 (Dependency)
- astro 7.3.3 (Dependency)
- astro-expressive-code ^0.44.0 (Dependency)
- astro-seo ^0.8.4 (Dependency)
- auth-astro ^4.2.0 (Dependency)
- boxen ^8.0.1 (Dependency)
- commander ^12.1.0 (Dependency)
- cross-env ^7.0.3 (Dependency)
- d3-drag 3.0.0 (Dependency)
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- d3-selection 3.0.0 (Dependency)
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- dagre ^0.8.5 (Dependency)
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- nanostores ^1.1.0 (Dependency)
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- picocolors ^1.1.1 (Dependency)
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## Package metadata
- **Package:** @eventcatalog/core
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 4.11.0
- **License:** SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE
- **Version published:** 2026-09-22T13:46:12.538Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-03T04:09:07.694Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-03T14:01:31.368Z
- **Known versions:** 60
- **Latest version:** 5.8.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** \<div align="center"\>
- **Maintainers:** boyney123
- **Artifact files:** 1344
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 7,706,169 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@eventcatalog/core/v/4.11.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/event-catalog/eventcatalog>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/event-catalog/eventcatalog/issues>)
