---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@extenshi/cli/v/0.27.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@extenshi/cli/v/0.27.0.md"
package: "@extenshi/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@extenshi/cli@0.27.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.27.0"
---

# @extenshi/cli@0.27.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 19 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Credential Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 0.27.0
- **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: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Pay operations forward an existing Extenshi API key to an environment-configurable BFF with no destination allowlist. The default is the Extenshi BFF and the affected calls require explicit Pay commands, so the evidence supports conditional credential exposure rather than a covert attack.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 84.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-15T22:34:08.126Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-15T22:37:39.338Z
- **Download time:** 1034 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1936 ms
- **AI review time:** 208241 ms
- **Total time:** 211212 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:** Pay requests forward the configured Extenshi API key to the configured BFF address. Redirecting that address can expose the key to another host.

- **Trigger:** A user runs a Pay command or the Pay test-cycle command while \`EXTENSHI\_BFF\_URL\` points to a non-Extenshi host.

- **Impact:** The configured API key may be disclosed to the redirected recipient.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/config.js, dist/pay.js, dist/pay-test-cycle.js, dist/cli.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-15T22:37:39.338Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The helper builds the request URL from the BFF setting and places the API key in the bearer authorization header without restricting the destination host.

- **Rationale:** Pay operations forward an existing Extenshi API key to an environment-configurable BFF with no destination allowlist. The default is the Extenshi BFF and the affected calls require explicit Pay commands, so the evidence supports conditional credential exposure rather than a covert attack.

- **Network endpoints:** https://bff.extenshi.io

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 84.0%

- **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The Pay helper sends the configured Extenshi API key as bearer authorization to the URL built from the configured BFF address., The BFF defaults to Extenshi, but the \`EXTENSHI\_BFF\_URL\` environment variable can redirect requests; the inspected code applies no host allowlist., The credential-forwarding helper is reached by explicit Pay commands and the explicit Pay test-cycle command registered by the CLI., The postinstall hook sends separate adoption telemetry only after recorded positive telemetry consent; its payload contains an anonymous identifier and coarse environment details.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @extenshi/cli@0.27.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @extenshi/cli@0.27.0 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@extenshi/cli@0.27.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.cjs
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@extenshi/cli@0.27.0/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.cjs
```

### 3. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

### 4. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 5. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/login-runtime.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@extenshi/cli@0.27.0/dist/login-runtime.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L11: */
L12: import { spawn } from 'node:child_process';
L13: import http from 'node:http';
```

### 6. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package source references shell execution.

### 7. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/screenshots.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@extenshi/cli@0.27.0/dist/screenshots.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L48: for (const base of bases) {
L49: const req = createRequire(base);
L50: for (const name of ['playwright', 'playwright-core', '@playwright/test']) {
```

### 8. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/evidence-ingest.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@extenshi/cli@0.27.0/dist/evidence-ingest.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5: * Why the CLI carries it: that action lives in the platform monorepo, which is
L6: * private, and the public mirror does not publish it — `uses:` of it 404s in a
L7: * developer's repository. The CLI is public on npm, so the scaffold's evidence
...
L67: const idempotencyKey = uuidv5(idempotencyName);
L68: const serverUrl = input.serverUrl ?? 'https://github.com';
L69: const body = JSON.stringify({
...
L122: try {
L123: report = JSON.parse(raw);
L124: }
...
L153: }
L154: export async function runEvidenceIngest(artifact, options, env = process.env) {
L155: if (!/^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}$/i.test(options.project))
```

### 9. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 10. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 11. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 12. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/amo-source.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@extenshi/cli@0.27.0/dist/amo-source.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L56: { file: 'package-lock.json', manager: 'npm', installCmd: 'npm ci' },
L57: { file: 'yarn.lock', manager: 'yarn', installCmd: 'yarn install --immutable' },
L58: { file: 'pnpm-lock.yaml', manager: 'pnpm', installCmd: 'pnpm install --frozen-lockfile' },
...
L62: function isGitClean(cwd) {
L63: const git = (...args) => execFileSync('git', args, { cwd, stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'ignore'] })
L64: .toString()
```

### 13. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 14. Low: Telemetry
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

### 15. Low: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

### 16. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

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

### 17. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 18. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@extenshi/cli@0.27.0/dist/cli.js%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 = 15
```

### 19. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/localize-html.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@extenshi/cli@0.27.0/dist/localize-html.js>)

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 = @extenshi/cli@0.26.0
matchedIdentity = npm:QGV4dGVuc2hpL2NsaQ:0.26.0
similarity = 0.971
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 12
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 4
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 12

### Published dependency entries
- @extenshi/contracts ^0.2.1 (Dependency)
- @extenshi/publisher ^0.8.1 (Dependency)
- @resvg/resvg-wasm 2.6.2 (Dependency)
- chalk ^5.3.0 (Dependency)
- commander ^12.1.0 (Dependency)
- jszip ^3.10.2 (Dependency)
- ora ^8.1.1 (Dependency)
- parse5 ^7.3.0 (Dependency)
- posthog-node ^5.53.0 (Dependency)
- semver ^7.8.5 (Dependency)
- undici ^7.30.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^3.25.76 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @extenshi/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.27.0
- **Version published:** 2026-10-15T22:23:46.678Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-17T21:57:55.625Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T12:53:22.824Z
- **Known versions:** 33
- **Latest version:** 0.44.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Pre-publish security scanner for browser extensions
- **Maintainers:** maxstone
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 279
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,262,559 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@extenshi/cli/v/0.27.0>)