---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@gatetest/cli"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@gatetest/cli/v/1.56.4.md"
package: "@gatetest/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@gatetest/cli@1.56.4 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.56.4"
---

# @gatetest/cli@1.56.4 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 18 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 1.56.4
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

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.

Static analysis flagged 18 finding(s) at 93.0% confidence. This version is warn-only unless an AI or security-team review confirms malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 93.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-04T21:44:29.557Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-04T21:44:33.249Z
- **Download time:** 507 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3184 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 3692 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

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @gatetest/cli@1.56.4.

- Review the evidence and your use of @gatetest/cli@1.56.4 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: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. Critical: Critical Secret
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** src/modules/secret-rotation.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@gatetest/cli@1.56.4/src/modules/secret-rotation.js>)

Package contains a critical-looking secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = private_key_rsa
severity = critical
line = 34
matchedText = * `-----...cks.
```

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/gatetest.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@gatetest/cli@1.56.4/bin/gatetest.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L514: async function runAutoPr(summary, projectRoot, args) {
L515: const { execSync } = require('child_process');
L516: const { runFixOrchestration } = require('../src/core/cli-fix-orchestrator');
```

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

Package source references shell execution.

### 6. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** src/core/universal-checker.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@gatetest/cli@1.56.4/src/core/universal-checker.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L43: { name: 'eval', pattern: /\beval\s*\(/, severity: 'error',
L44: message: 'eval() — arbitrary code execution risk',
L45: suggestion: 'Use ast.literal_eval for literals, or refactor to avoid eval entirely.' },
```

### 7. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/gatetest-promote.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@gatetest/cli@1.56.4/bin/gatetest-promote.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L35: 
L36: const fs = require('fs');
L37: const path = require('path');
```

### 8. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** src/core/direct-repair.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@gatetest/cli@1.56.4/src/core/direct-repair.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L28: const crypto  = require('crypto');
L29: const { spawnSync } = require('child_process');
L30: 
...
L55: try {
L56: const raw = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(file, 'utf8'));
L57: for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(raw)) this.store.set(k, v);
...
L81: encoding: 'utf8',
L82: env: { ...process.env, GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT: '0', ...env },
L83: timeout: 120_000,
...
L85: if (result.status !== 0) {
L86: throw new Error(`git ${args[0]} failed: ${(result.stderr || '').trim()}`);
L87: }
```

### 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: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** src/app-server.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@gatetest/cli@1.56.4/src/app-server.js>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L22: 
L23: const http = require('http');
L24: const crypto = require('crypto');
...
L27: const path = require('path');
L28: const { execSync, execFile } = require('child_process');
L29: 
L30: const PORT = process.env.PORT || 3333;
L31: const APP_ID = process.env.GATETEST_APP_ID;
```

### 13. High: Cloud Metadata Access
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** src/core/live-probe-runner.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@gatetest/cli@1.56.4/src/core/live-probe-runner.js>)

Source reaches cloud instance metadata or link-local credential endpoints.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L29: 
L30: const https = require('https');
L31: const http = require('http');
...
L146: 
L147: // Block requests to private / loopback / metadata endpoints — never
L148: // probe internal infra even by accident.
...
L220: headers: res.headers,
L221: body: Buffer.concat(chunks).toString('utf-8'),
L222: truncated: totalLen > maxBodyBytes,
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 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. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** src/modules/ai-hallucination.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@gatetest/cli@1.56.4/src/modules/ai-hallucination.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 = @gatetest/cli@1.56.2
matchedIdentity = npm:QGdhdGV0ZXN0L2NsaQ:1.56.2
similarity = 0.933
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

### 18. Critical: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** src/modules/secret-rotation.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@gatetest/cli@1.56.4/src/modules/secret-rotation.js>)

RSA private key in src/modules/secret-rotation.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = private_key_rsa
severity = critical
line = 34
matchedText = * `-----...cks.
```

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

### Published dependency entries
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.29.0 (Dependency)
- acorn ^8.17.0 (Dependency)
- pixelmatch ^7.2.0 (Dependency)
- pngjs ^7.0.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @gatetest/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.56.4
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-07-04T21:44:00.043Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-04T21:44:33.249Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-19T16:07:00.059Z
- **Known versions:** 7
- **Latest version:** 1.61.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** GateTest — 120-module QA gate with MCP. Eyes (screenshot live pages), ears (production errors), hands (verify fixes worked). Security, supply chain, AI safety, mutation testing. Iterative Claude fix loop. Replaces SonarQube + Snyk + ESLint + 10 others.
- **Author:** GateTest Team
- **Maintainers:** mccracken
- **Keywords:** testing, qa, quality-assurance, gatetest, gatecode, claude, ci-cd, security, accessibility, performance, visual-regression, seo
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 232
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,538,992 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@gatetest/cli/v/1.56.4>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/crclabs-hq/gatetest>)
- [Homepage](<https://gatetest.ai/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/crclabs-hq/gatetest/issues>)
