---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@eventcatalog/core/v/4.7.5"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@eventcatalog/core/v/4.7.5.md"
package: "@eventcatalog/core"
report_status: "published"
title: "@eventcatalog/core@4.7.5 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "4.7.5"
---

# @eventcatalog/core@4.7.5 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:** 4.7.5
- **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 account-action locations resolve to local search-index generation, refresh, and development watcher code. The manifest and inspected search UI provide no evidence of an install-time attack or malicious behavior, so the source supports a clean verdict.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 92.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-18T02:34:26.186Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-18T02:35:45.906Z
- **Download time:** 1536 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2156 ms
- **AI review time:** 76026 ms
- **Total time:** 79720 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 source. The flagged runtime behavior builds and refreshes a search index for the catalog.

- **Trigger:** A user runs a catalog build or development command, or the development watcher detects a Markdown change.

- **Impact:** The observed effect is local search-index generation; no unsolicited account change or other attack effect was confirmed.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-18T02:35:45.906Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The code indexes catalog records into a Pagefind output directory and may remove that generated directory before writing refreshed index files.

- **Rationale:** The scanner’s account-action locations resolve to local search-index generation, refresh, and development watcher code. The manifest and inspected search UI provide no evidence of an install-time attack or malicious behavior, so the source supports a clean verdict.

- **Files touched:** dist/eventcatalog.cjs

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 92.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest lists development and build scripts and no install lifecycle hook., The flagged runtime locations build a Pagefind search index in the catalog output and remove only that generated index directory., Development search indexing runs when the development watcher sees Markdown changes or when the development command starts., The flagged UI code uses a search highlighting helper to display result names.

- **Evidence against:** The inspected runtime locations show no unsolicited account action or confirmed attack behavior.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @eventcatalog/core@4.7.5.

- Review the evidence and your use of @eventcatalog/core@4.7.5 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@4.7.5/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@4.7.5/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@4.7.5/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@4.7.5/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 = 0.700
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

### 12. Low: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 92.0%
- **Path:** dist/eventcatalog.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@eventcatalog/core@4.7.5/dist/eventcatalog.cjs>)

The flagged runtime locations build a Pagefind search index in the catalog output and remove only that generated index directory.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
import_node_path9.default.join(outDir, isServer ? "client" : "", "pagefind");
};
var buildSearchIndex = async ({ projectDir, outDir, config, isServer, searchOutputPath }) => {
  co
```

## 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 ^0.0.7 (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- rehype-slug ^6.0.0 (Dependency)
- remark-comment ^1.0.0 (Dependency)
- remark-directive ^3.0.0 (Dependency)
- remark-gfm ^4.0.1 (Dependency)
- rimraf ^6.1.3 (Dependency)
- semver 7.6.3 (Dependency)
- shelljs ^0.9.0 (Dependency)
- sonner ^2.0.7 (Dependency)
- sql.js ^1.12.0 (Dependency)
- svg-pan-zoom ^3.6.2 (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:** 4.7.5
- **License:** SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE
- **Version published:** 2026-08-21T11:40:25.325Z
- **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:** 1194
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 7,095,981 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@eventcatalog/core/v/4.7.5>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/event-catalog/eventcatalog>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/event-catalog/eventcatalog/issues>)
