---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@eventcatalog/core/v/4.12.3"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@eventcatalog/core/v/4.12.3.md"
package: "@eventcatalog/core"
report_status: "published"
title: "@eventcatalog/core@4.12.3 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "4.12.3"
---

# @eventcatalog/core@4.12.3 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:** 4.12.3
- **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 flags resolve to package-aligned search, analytics, and GitHub federation behavior. The analytics send is guarded by explicit configuration, and the GitHub token is used for GitHub requests; no malicious behavior was identified.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 96.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-18T02:36:40.417Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-18T02:37:40.147Z
- **Download time:** 2021 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2011 ms
- **AI review time:** 55697 ms
- **Total time:** 59730 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. The flagged code implements local search indexing, indexed-search loading, optional resource-count analytics, and GitHub federation.

- **Trigger:** The CLI runs build or development functions, or a user opens indexed search or configures GitHub federation.

- **Impact:** No confirmed attack surface was established from the inspected source.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-18T02:37:40.147Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Search code loads the Pagefind module; analytics sends resource counts only when enabled with configured identifiers; federation sends configured tokens to GitHub endpoints.

- **Rationale:** The scanner flags resolve to package-aligned search, analytics, and GitHub federation behavior. The analytics send is guarded by explicit configuration, and the GitHub token is used for GitHub requests; no malicious behavior was identified.

### 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 identifies the CLI entrypoint and has no install lifecycle hook., The flagged runtime locations build or refresh the local Pagefind search index; they do not perform account actions., SearchModal uses dynamic import to load the Pagefind module for indexed search., Cloud inventory reporting requires analytics.enabled, trackingId, and writeKey, and sends resource counts., Federation uses configured GitHub credentials for GitHub API or raw GitHub requests.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @eventcatalog/core@4.12.3.

- Review the evidence and your use of @eventcatalog/core@4.12.3 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@4.12.3/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@4.12.3/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@4.12.3/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_fs = __toESM(require("fs"), 1);
...
L93: let configFilePath = import_node_path.default.join(projectDirectory, "eventcatalog.config.js");
L94: const filePath = import_node_path.default.join(projectDirectory, "package.json");
L95: const packageJson = JSON.parse(await (0, import_promises.readFile)(filePath, "utf-8"));
L96: if (packageJson?.type !== "module") {
...
L316: event: "@eventcatalog/eventcatalog",
L317: metadata: {
L318: ...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@4.12.3/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/federation/source-provider.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@eventcatalog/core@4.12.3/dist/federation/source-provider.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 = 0.542
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:** 28
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 91

### Published dependency entries
- @ai-sdk/react ^4.0.109 (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 1.1.21 (Dependency)
- @eventcatalog/sdk 2.29.2 (Dependency)
- @eventcatalog/visualiser ^4.1.5 (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 ^7.0.106 (Dependency)
- astro 7.3.3 (Dependency)
- astro-expressive-code ^0.44.0 (Dependency)
- astro-seo ^0.8.4 (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)
- d3-zoom 3.0.0 (Dependency)
- dagre ^0.8.5 (Dependency)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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## Package metadata
- **Package:** @eventcatalog/core
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 4.12.3
- **License:** SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE
- **Version published:** 2026-09-29T15:32:06.531Z
- **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:** 1472
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 7,701,115 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@eventcatalog/core/v/4.12.3>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/event-catalog/eventcatalog>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/event-catalog/eventcatalog/issues>)
