---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@eventcatalog/core/v/5.1.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@eventcatalog/core/v/5.1.1.md"
package: "@eventcatalog/core"
report_status: "published"
title: "@eventcatalog/core@5.1.1 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "5.1.1"
---

# @eventcatalog/core@5.1.1 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:** 5.1.1
- **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.

Source review found no malicious behavior. The scanner’s dynamic-code hint is a Pagefind dynamic import, its runtime-operation hints resolve to search-index and process-output handling, and the observed analytics and GitHub requests are package-aligned or destination-scoped.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 93.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-18T02:36:54.751Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-18T02:38:00.041Z
- **Download time:** 3603 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2263 ms
- **AI review time:** 59423 ms
- **Total time:** 65290 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 confirmed attack surface was identified. The inspected runtime hints are ordinary search-index and development-watch operations, and the observed network calls serve configured analytics or GitHub content retrieval.

- **Trigger:** The CLI runtime performs catalog build or development-server operations; analytics reporting runs only when its configuration enables it.

- **Impact:** No credential theft, unrelated account action, destructive behavior, or malicious payload execution was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-18T02:38:00.041Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The runtime builds and refreshes Pagefind indexes, reports catalog counts and usage metadata through analytics, and uses a supplied GitHub token for GitHub API content requests.

- **Rationale:** Source review found no malicious behavior. The scanner’s dynamic-code hint is a Pagefind dynamic import, its runtime-operation hints resolve to search-index and process-output handling, and the observed analytics and GitHub requests are package-aligned or destination-scoped.

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

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

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 93.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest points its CLI to bin/eventcatalog.js, which imports the built runtime; the inspected manifest contains no install-time trigger., Runtime account-action hints resolve to search-index output paths, index cleanup, Markdown file watching, and conditional index rebuilds., The flagged dynamic Function in SearchModal loads the Pagefind module; the flagged schema viewer code renders code blocks., Cloud resource reporting requires enabled analytics settings and sends resource counts with a tracking ID to the configured analytics endpoint., The GitHub token is sent as a Bearer token to a GitHub repository API URL for content retrieval.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @eventcatalog/core@5.1.1.

- Review the evidence and your use of @eventcatalog/core@5.1.1 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@5.1.1/eventcatalog/src/components/Search/SearchModal.tsx>)

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```tsx
L138: const loadPagefindModule = (url: string) => {
L139: const nativeImport = new Function('url', 'return import(url)') as (url: string) => Promise<PagefindModule>;
L140: 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@5.1.1/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@5.1.1/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_path22 = require("path");
L33: var import_node_http = __toESM(require("http"), 1);
L34: var import_fs = __toESM(require("fs"), 1);
...
L80: }`;
L81: (0, import_node_module.register)(`data:text/javascript,${encodeURIComponent(hook)}`);
L82: };
...
L84: try {
L85: const packageJson = JSON.parse(await (0, import_promises.readFile)(import_node_path.default.join(projectDirectory, "package.json"), "utf-8"));
L86: return packageJson?.type === "commonjs";
...
L290: }
```

### 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. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

### 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@5.1.1/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 = 3
```

### 12. Low: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@eventcatalog/core@5.1.1/package.json>)

The manifest points its CLI to bin/eventcatalog.js, which imports the built runtime; the inspected manifest contains no install-time trigger.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"bin": {
    "eventcatalog": "bin/eventcatalog.js"
  },
  "typesVersions": {
    "*": {
      "bin/eventcatalog.config": [
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 98
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 26
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 98

### Published dependency entries
- @ai-sdk/react ^4.0.109 (Dependency)
- @astrojs/markdown-remark ^7.3.2 (Dependency)
- @astrojs/mdx ^8.0.3 (Dependency)
- @astrojs/node ^11.1.7 (Dependency)
- @astrojs/react ^7.0.1 (Dependency)
- @astrojs/rss ^4.0.19 (Dependency)
- @asyncapi/avro-schema-parser 3.0.24 (Dependency)
- @asyncapi/parser ^3.6.0 (Dependency)
- @asyncapi/react-component 3.2.1 (Dependency)
- @auth/core ^0.41.3 (Dependency)
- @eventcatalog/exporters 0.0.3 (Dependency)
- @eventcatalog/license ^0.0.9 (Dependency)
- @eventcatalog/linter 1.2.1 (Dependency)
- @eventcatalog/sdk 2.30.0 (Dependency)
- @eventcatalog/visualiser ^5.0.0 (Dependency)
- @fontsource/inter ^5.2.5 (Dependency)
- @headlessui/react ^2.0.3 (Dependency)
- @heroicons/react ^2.1.3 (Dependency)
- @hocuspocus/provider ^4.7.0 (Dependency)
- @hocuspocus/server ^4.7.0 (Dependency)
- @iconify-json/logos ^1.2.4 (Dependency)
- @mcp-b/webmcp-polyfill 5.1.0 (Dependency)
- @mermaid-js/layout-elk ^0.2.0 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/ext-apps ^1.7.5 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.32.0 (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 ^12.12.0 (Dependency)
- ai ^7.0.106 (Dependency)
- astro 7.3.8 (Dependency)
- astro-expressive-code ^0.44.0 (Dependency)
- astro-seo ^1.2.0 (Dependency)
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- 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)
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- nanostores ^1.1.0 (Dependency)
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- zod ^4.6.6 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @eventcatalog/core
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 5.1.1
- **License:** BUSL-1.1
- **Version published:** 2026-10-15T16:34:37.447Z
- **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:** 1620
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 15,281,293 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@eventcatalog/core/v/5.1.1>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/event-catalog/eventcatalog>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/event-catalog/eventcatalog/issues>)
