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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@fragment-dev/cli/v/2026.10.29-4"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@fragment-dev/cli/v/2026.10.29-4.md"
package: "@fragment-dev/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@fragment-dev/cli@2026.10.29-4 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "2026.10.29-4"
---

# @fragment-dev/cli@2026.10.29-4 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 15 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Telemetry warning (can be blocked)
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Telemetry
- **Selected version:** 2026.10.29-4
- **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.

The CLI sends runtime analytics by default without a disclosure found in the inspected package files, although it provides an environment-variable opt-out. The event contains command and runtime metadata rather than credentials or file contents, so this is suspicious telemetry rather than malicious exfiltration.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-31T12:40:17.845Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-31T12:41:07.320Z
- **Download time:** 1805 ms
- **Static scan time:** 6935 ms
- **AI review time:** 40734 ms
- **Total time:** 49475 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:** Undisclosed runtime analytics send a command event to PostHog by default.

- **Trigger:** Starting any CLI command; telemetry can be disabled with DISABLE\_CLI\_ANALYTICS=true.

- **Impact:** The vendor analytics service learns which CLI commands are run and receives platform, architecture, shell, and beta status.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/chunk-VPOARVKJ.js, package.json

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-31T12:41:07.320Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The command initializes PostHog and captures the command name and basic runtime fields using a fixed distinct ID.

- **Rationale:** The CLI sends runtime analytics by default without a disclosure found in the inspected package files, although it provides an environment-variable opt-out. The event contains command and runtime metadata rather than credentials or file contents, so this is suspicious telemetry rather than malicious exfiltration.

- **Network endpoints:** https://us.i.posthog.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** Every CLI command sends a PostHog event by default; users must set DISABLE\_CLI\_ANALYTICS=true to stop it., The event includes the command name, platform, architecture, shell value, and beta flag, and uses the fixed distinct ID "fragment-cli"., The bundled PostHog client defaults to https://us.i.posthog.com.

- **Evidence against:** The package has no install, preinstall, or postinstall script; its listed scripts are build, development, packaging, and test tasks., Fragment credentials are sent to the OAuth URL stored in the Fragment auth configuration to obtain an access token., The executable delegates to oclif command execution; the telemetry is sent during CLI command initialization.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @fragment-dev/cli@2026.10.29-4.

- Review the evidence and your use of @fragment-dev/cli@2026.10.29-4 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: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/open-SJMVVA3H.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@fragment-dev/cli@2026.10.29-4/dist/open-SJMVVA3H.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L11: import { promisify as promisify5 } from "node:util";
L12: import childProcess from "node:child_process";
L13: import fs5, { constants as fsConstants2 } from "node:fs/promises";
```

### 3. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** dist/chunk-VPOARVKJ.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@fragment-dev/cli@2026.10.29-4/dist/chunk-VPOARVKJ.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2709: exports.localsName = _DEFAULT_LOCALS_NAME;
L2710: exports.promiseImpl = new Function("return this;")().Promise;
L2711: exports.resolveInclude = function(name, filename, isDir) {
```

### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/chunk-VPOARVKJ.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@fragment-dev/cli@2026.10.29-4/dist/chunk-VPOARVKJ.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2187: exports.existsSync = existsSync2;
L2188: var node_fs_1 = __require("node:fs");
L2189: var promises_1 = __require("node:fs/promises");
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/chunk-VPOARVKJ.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@fragment-dev/cli@2026.10.29-4/dist/chunk-VPOARVKJ.js>)

Source spawns a local helper that also contains network and dynamic execution context; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Cross-file remote execution chain: dist/chunk-VPOARVKJ.js spawns dist/chunk-QF5EN33L.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L105: function isProd() {
L106: return !["development", "test"].includes(process.env.NODE_ENV ?? "");
L107: }
...
L2227: if (useCache && cache.has(path)) {
L2228: return JSON.parse(cache.get(path));
L2229: }
...
L2308: 
L2309: // ../../node_modules/@oclif/core/package.json
L2310: var require_package = __commonJS({
...
L2316: author: "Salesforce",
L2317: bugs: "https://github.com/oclif/core/issues",
L2318: dependencies: {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 12. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** bin/dev.cmd
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@fragment-dev/cli@2026.10.29-4/bin/dev.cmd>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = bin/dev.cmd
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 30
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 13. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

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

### 14. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/chunk-QDAKBUNO.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@fragment-dev/cli@2026.10.29-4/dist/chunk-QDAKBUNO.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 = 2
```

### 15. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/chunk-YKGESMWT.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@fragment-dev/cli@2026.10.29-4/dist/chunk-YKGESMWT.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 = @fragment-dev/cli@2026.10.23-1
matchedIdentity = npm:QGZyYWdtZW50LWRldi9jbGk:2026.10.23-1
similarity = 0.983
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 4
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 30
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 4

### Published dependency entries
- @oclif/plugin-autocomplete ^3.2.50 (Dependency)
- @oclif/plugin-commands 4.1.57 (Dependency)
- @oclif/plugin-help 6.2.50 (Dependency)
- @oclif/plugin-not-found ^3.2.87 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @fragment-dev/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2026.10.29-4
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-29T18:19:11.258Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T23:56:29.351Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T22:01:33.830Z
- **Known versions:** 337
- **Latest version:** 2026.11.4-13
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** FRAGMENT CLI
- **Author:** hello@fragment.dev
- **Maintainers:** vignesh-dev, omichowdhury, varun-fragment, snoble-fragment, jklevin
- **Keywords:** fragment, ledger, double-entry, accounting, money, payments
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 123
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 5,850,668 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@fragment-dev/cli/v/2026.10.29-4>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/fragment-dev/workspaces>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/fragment-dev/workspaces/issues>)
