---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@eventcatalog/core/v/5.2.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@eventcatalog/core/v/5.2.0.md"
package: "@eventcatalog/core"
report_status: "published"
title: "@eventcatalog/core@5.2.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "5.2.0"
---

# @eventcatalog/core@5.2.0 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:** 5.2.0
- **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 install hook or concrete attack behavior. The scanner's credential and dynamic-code flags correspond to GitHub federation, product telemetry, and a Pagefind import used by indexed search.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-18T02:37:02.338Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-18T02:38:30.168Z
- **Download time:** 2285 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2254 ms
- **AI review time:** 83291 ms
- **Total time:** 87830 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 reviewed runtime behavior supports catalog search, GitHub federation, and EventCatalog analytics.

- **Trigger:** A user runs the EventCatalog CLI or opens indexed search in the application.

- **Impact:** No credential theft, unrequested account changes, or malicious execution was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-18T02:38:30.168Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The runtime builds local search files, fetches configured GitHub catalog content, and sends product analytics metadata.

- **Rationale:** Source review found no install hook or concrete attack behavior. The scanner's credential and dynamic-code flags correspond to GitHub federation, product telemetry, and a Pagefind import used by indexed search.

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

### 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 points the CLI to bin/eventcatalog.js, which imports the runtime; its listed scripts contain no install lifecycle hook., The flagged runtime locations build and write a Pagefind search index and run development or build commands; they do not perform account actions., Build telemetry sends EventCatalog project and build metadata; cloud inventory reporting requires enabled analytics settings and configured identifiers., Federation uses configured GitHub tokens for requests to GitHub content endpoints., The flagged dynamic Function performs a native import of the app's Pagefind module when indexed search opens., ExamplesViewer renders Markdown and code examples through ReactMarkdown and a syntax highlighter.

- **Evidence against:** The runtime does send project identifiers and build metadata to analytics endpoints during builds.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @eventcatalog/core@5.2.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @eventcatalog/core@5.2.0 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@5.2.0/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@5.2.0/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@5.2.0/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@5.2.0/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: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@eventcatalog/core@5.2.0/package.json>)

The manifest points the CLI to bin/eventcatalog.js, which imports the runtime; its listed scripts contain no install lifecycle hook.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

## 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 0.1.0 (Dependency)
- @eventcatalog/license ^0.0.9 (Dependency)
- @eventcatalog/linter 1.2.2 (Dependency)
- @eventcatalog/sdk 2.31.0 (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)
- 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)
- 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 ^4.13.7 (Dependency)
- html-to-image ^1.11.11 (Dependency)
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- js-yaml ^4.3.2 (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)
- parse5 ^7.3.0 (Dependency)
- picocolors ^1.1.1 (Dependency)
- picomatch ^4.0.4 (Dependency)
- react ^19.2.0 (Dependency)
- react-dom ^19.2.0 (Dependency)
- react-hotkeys-hook ^5.3.3 (Dependency)
- react-markdown ^10.1.0 (Dependency)
- react-syntax-highlighter ^16.1.1 (Dependency)
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- rimraf ^6.1.3 (Dependency)
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- sql.js ^1.12.0 (Dependency)
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- uuid ^11.1.1 (Dependency)
- y-protocols ^1.0.7 (Dependency)
- yjs ^13.6.33 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.6.6 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @eventcatalog/core
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 5.2.0
- **License:** BUSL-1.1
- **Version published:** 2026-10-16T10:38:39.345Z
- **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:** 1624
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 15,327,536 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@eventcatalog/core/v/5.2.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/event-catalog/eventcatalog>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/event-catalog/eventcatalog/issues>)
