---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@eventcatalog/core/v/4.11.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@eventcatalog/core/v/4.11.1.md"
package: "@eventcatalog/core"
report_status: "published"
title: "@eventcatalog/core@4.11.1 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "4.11.1"
---

# @eventcatalog/core@4.11.1 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:** 4.11.1
- **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.

Inspected source does not support the scanner’s malicious verdict: the flagged runtime locations implement search indexing, and the token-bearing request targets GitHub for repository content. The observed analytics paths are package-related, with cloud inventory reporting gated by explicit configuration.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 96.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-18T02:34:54.880Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-18T02:35:51.039Z
- **Download time:** 2033 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2125 ms
- **AI review time:** 52000 ms
- **Total time:** 56159 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 surface was identified in the inspected source. Network requests are for package analytics or configured cloud inventory reporting, while the flagged account locations implement search indexing.

- **Trigger:** CLI use or configured cloud analytics during package operation.

- **Impact:** No credential theft, unrequested account action, or install-time mutation was identified.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-18T02:35:51.039Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The package sends analytics metadata to its analytics service; cloud inventory counts are sent only when analytics is enabled and tracking credentials are configured. Search code dynamically imports Pagefind.

- **Rationale:** Inspected source does not support the scanner’s malicious verdict: the flagged runtime locations implement search indexing, and the token-bearing request targets GitHub for repository content. The observed analytics paths are package-related, with cloud inventory reporting gated by explicit configuration.

- **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:** 96.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** package.json exposes a CLI and ordinary development/build scripts; it declares no install lifecycle hook., The CLI entrypoint imports the package runtime. Reported account-action locations are search-index generation, Markdown file watching, and development/build commands; they do not perform authenticated account actions., The reported dynamic evaluation loads the Pagefind search module. ExamplesViewer renders code with a syntax highlighter., Analytics sends package and runtime metadata; cloud inventory reporting requires enabled analytics, a tracking ID, and a write key. GitHub tokens are sent to GitHub for requested repository content.

- **Evidence against:** The scanner’s credential-exfiltration and dangerous-source labels are not borne out by the inspected request paths: the GitHub token is used in authenticated GitHub content requests, and the cloud inventory request is explicitly gated by configuration.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @eventcatalog/core@4.11.1.

- Review the evidence and your use of @eventcatalog/core@4.11.1 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@4.11.1/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/copy-core.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@eventcatalog/core@4.11.1/dist/copy-core.cjs>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L36: module.exports = __toCommonJS(copy_core_exports);
L37: var import_node_fs = __toESM(require("fs"), 1);
L38: var import_node_path = __toESM(require("path"), 1);
```

### 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@4.11.1/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_path19 = 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@4.11.1/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@4.11.1/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 = 0.783
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)
- d3-force 3.0.0 (Dependency)
- d3-selection 3.0.0 (Dependency)
- d3-zoom 3.0.0 (Dependency)
- dagre ^0.8.5 (Dependency)
- diff ^8.0.3 (Dependency)
- diff2html ^3.4.56 (Dependency)
- dotenv ^16.5.0 (Dependency)
- elkjs ^0.10.0 (Dependency)
- glob ^13.0.6 (Dependency)
- gray-matter ^4.0.3 (Dependency)
- hono 4.13.5 (Dependency)
- html-to-image ^1.11.11 (Dependency)
- js-yaml ^4.3.2 (Dependency)
- jsonpath-plus ^10.4.0 (Dependency)
- jsonwebtoken ^9.0.2 (Dependency)
- lodash.debounce ^4.0.8 (Dependency)
- lodash.merge 4.6.2 (Dependency)
- lucide-react ^0.453.0 (Dependency)
- marked ^15.0.6 (Dependency)
- mdast-util-find-and-replace ^3.0.2 (Dependency)
- mermaid ^11.16.1 (Dependency)
- minisearch ^7.2.0 (Dependency)
- nanostores ^1.1.0 (Dependency)
- pagefind ^1.5.2 (Dependency)
- pako ^2.1.0 (Dependency)
- parse5 ^7.3.0 (Dependency)
- picocolors ^1.1.1 (Dependency)
- picomatch ^4.0.4 (Dependency)
- react ^18.3.1 (Dependency)
- react-dom ^18.3.1 (Dependency)
- react-markdown ^10.1.0 (Dependency)
- react-syntax-highlighter ^16.1.1 (Dependency)
- recast ^0.23.11 (Dependency)
- rehype-autolink-headings ^7.1.0 (Dependency)
- rehype-expressive-code ^0.44.0 (Dependency)
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- remark-comment ^1.0.0 (Dependency)
- remark-directive ^3.0.0 (Dependency)
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- rimraf ^6.1.3 (Dependency)
- semver 7.6.3 (Dependency)
- shelljs ^0.9.0 (Dependency)
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- sql.js ^1.12.0 (Dependency)
- tailwindcss ^4.3.1 (Dependency)
- typescript ^5.4.5 (Dependency)
- unist-util-visit ^5.0.0 (Dependency)
- update-notifier ^7.3.1 (Dependency)
- uuid ^11.1.1 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.3.6 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @eventcatalog/core
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 4.11.1
- **License:** SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE
- **Version published:** 2026-09-22T15:46:42.162Z
- **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:** 1339
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 7,651,229 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@eventcatalog/core/v/4.11.1>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/event-catalog/eventcatalog>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/event-catalog/eventcatalog/issues>)
