---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@eventcatalog/core/v/4.7.12"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@eventcatalog/core/v/4.7.12.md"
package: "@eventcatalog/core"
report_status: "published"
title: "@eventcatalog/core@4.7.12 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "4.7.12"
---

# @eventcatalog/core@4.7.12 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:** 4.7.12
- **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 manifest has a CLI entrypoint but no install lifecycle hook. Reviewed runtime matches perform local search-index work or user-facing search, and build analytics is tied to a user-run build with resource reporting guarded by configuration; no concrete attack behavior was found.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-18T02:34:18.784Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-18T02:35:42.283Z
- **Download time:** 1004 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2221 ms
- **AI review time:** 80273 ms
- **Total time:** 83499 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 inspected sources. The flagged dynamic import supports the search interface, and the runtime account-action locations resolve to local search-index generation and development watching.

- **Trigger:** Search index generation occurs during catalog build or local development; Pagefind loading follows use of the search interface. Build telemetry follows a build command, with resource reporting gated by analytics configuration.

- **Impact:** The inspected behavior supports catalog search and analytics. No concrete malicious effect was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-18T02:35:42.283Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The package writes generated search files from catalog content. Configured analytics sends resource counts to its configured endpoint, while command usage is reported as build telemetry.

- **Rationale:** The manifest has a CLI entrypoint but no install lifecycle hook. Reviewed runtime matches perform local search-index work or user-facing search, and build analytics is tied to a user-run build with resource reporting guarded by configuration; no concrete attack behavior was found.

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

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

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest exposes a CLI and contains no install lifecycle hook., The bundled search index code collects catalog records, writes Pagefind files, and removes the prior generated index., The indexed search build runs from the catalog build path; development rebuilds are tied to the local watcher and Markdown changes., The search component dynamically imports Pagefind and loads the search index for its interface., Build telemetry reports resource counts only when analytics is enabled and tracking credentials are configured; the build path also reports command usage.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @eventcatalog/core@4.7.12.

- Review the evidence and your use of @eventcatalog/core@4.7.12 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@4.7.12/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@4.7.12/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@4.7.12/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_path17 = 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. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/eventcatalog.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@eventcatalog/core@4.7.12/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 = 0.758
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

### 12. Low: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@eventcatalog/core@4.7.12/package.json>)

The manifest exposes a CLI and contains no install lifecycle hook.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
{
  "name": "@eventcatalog/core",
  "homepage": "https://github.com/event-catalog/eventcatalog",
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
    "url": "https://github.com/event-catalog/eventcatalog.git"
  },
  "license": "SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE",
  "type": "module",
  "version": "4.7.12",
  "publishConfig
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 91
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 26
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 91

### Published dependency entries
- @ai-sdk/react ^3.0.17 (Dependency)
- @astrojs/markdown-remark ^7.2.2 (Dependency)
- @astrojs/mdx ^7.0.5 (Dependency)
- @astrojs/node ^11.1.0 (Dependency)
- @astrojs/react ^6.0.2 (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 1.1.14 (Dependency)
- @eventcatalog/sdk 2.27.4 (Dependency)
- @eventcatalog/visualiser ^4.1.3 (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 ^7.2.0 (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 4.13.0 (Dependency)
- html-to-image ^1.11.11 (Dependency)
- js-yaml ^4.3.1 (Dependency)
- jsonpath-plus ^10.4.0 (Dependency)
- jsonwebtoken ^9.0.2 (Dependency)
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- 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)
- 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-directive ^3.0.0 (Dependency)
- remark-gfm ^4.0.1 (Dependency)
- rimraf ^6.1.3 (Dependency)
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- shelljs ^0.9.0 (Dependency)
- sonner ^2.0.7 (Dependency)
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- 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:** 4.7.12
- **License:** SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE
- **Version published:** 2026-08-27T09:45:19.116Z
- **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:** 1200
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 7,094,415 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@eventcatalog/core/v/4.7.12>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/event-catalog/eventcatalog>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/event-catalog/eventcatalog/issues>)
