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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@m8t-stack/cli/v/0.2.139"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@m8t-stack/cli/v/0.2.139.md"
package: "@m8t-stack/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@m8t-stack/cli@0.2.139 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.2.139"
---

# @m8t-stack/cli@0.2.139 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Passed — safe to install** — No malicious behavior detected. 17 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:** 0.2.139
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

No confirmed malicious attack surface was found. Network and system changes are reached through named m8t CLI commands.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-27T09:52:20.200Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-27T09:54:47.906Z
- **Download time:** 507 ms
- **Static scan time:** 7677 ms
- **AI review time:** 139521 ms
- **Total time:** 147706 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** No confirmed malicious attack surface was found. Network and system changes are reached through named m8t CLI commands.

- **Trigger:** A user runs deployment, telemetry, update, or companion commands.

- **Impact:** The commands can manage the user's selected Azure deployment and enroll telemetry; no stealthy or install-time abuse is shown.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-27T09:54:47.906Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** User-invoked Azure and m8t platform administration.

- **Rationale:** This is a privileged deployment CLI with an explicit telemetry enrollment flow, but the inspected source does not establish malicious or unconsented behavior. The scanner's overwrite and credential-redirection claims are not supported by the package entrypoint or lifecycle configuration.

- **Network endpoints:** https://m8t-admin.wonderfuldesert-721e332f.eastus2.azurecontainerapps.io, https://github.com/m8t-labs/m8t-releases/releases

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 86.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for:** The explicit telemetry enrollment command can send an Azure access token to the m8t telemetry service., The CLI includes user-invoked deployment, update, and companion-install commands with cloud and local-state privileges.

- **Evidence against:** There are no install, preinstall, or postinstall hooks; the only lifecycle script is prepublishOnly., The entrypoint only installs an Azure DNS compatibility shim before parsing CLI arguments., The telemetry endpoint is branded m8t and enrollment is an explicit command with disclosed optional contact fields., No source evidence shows credential theft, stealthy remote execution, or unconsented modification of another package or AI-agent control surface.

## 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. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@m8t-stack/cli@0.2.139/dist/cli.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L12929: init_errors();
L12930: import { spawn } from "child_process";
L12931: var SECRET_VALUE_FLAGS = /* @__PURE__ */ new Set(["--secure-environment-variables"]);
```

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

Package source references shell execution.

### 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. Critical: Hardcoded Runtime Data Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@m8t-stack/cli@0.2.139/dist/cli.js>)

Source sends credentials or rich application records to a package-controlled external receiver enabled by default.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Source sends the broad process environment to a literal external destination.
L130: try {
L131: const obj2 = JSON.parse(raw);
L132: if (!obj2 || typeof obj2.repo !== "string" || obj2.repo.length === 0)
...
L343: // ../../packages/github-app-auth/dist/esm/jwt.js
L344: import { createSign, createPrivateKey } from "crypto";
L345: function signAppJwt(args) {
...
L356: sign.update(unsigned);
L357: sign.end();
L358: const signature = sign.sign(createPrivateKey(args.privateKeyPem)).toString("base64url");
...
L461: const appJwt = signAppJwt({ appId, privateKeyPem });
L462: const url = `https://api.github.com/app/installations/${args.installationId}/access_tokens`;
L463: const repoName = args.repository.includes("/") ? args.repository.split("/", 2)[1] : args.repository;
```

### 9. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@m8t-stack/cli@0.2.139/dist/cli.js>)

Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration.
dist/cli.js:
Authorization: `Bearer ${appJwt}`,
Authorization: `Bearer ${appJwt}`,
Authorization: `Bearer ${appJwt}`,
Authorization: `Bearer ${token.token}`,
headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${token.token}` }
headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${token.token}`, "Content-Type": "application/json", ...args.extraHeaders ?? {} },
headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${token.token}`, "Content-Type": "application/json", ...args.extraHeaders ?? {} },
body: JSON.stringify({ agent_endpoint: { authorization_schemes: [{ type: "Entra", isolation_key_source: { kind: "Entra" } }] } })
```

### 10. High: Entrypoint Foreign Package Code Overwrite
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@m8t-stack/cli@0.2.139/dist/cli.js>)

Manifest-reachable source overwrites another installed package with package-defined remote behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source resolves another installed package, overwrites its runtime code, and injects package-defined remote behavior.
dist/cli.js:
const url = `https://api.github.com/app/installations/${args.installationId}/access_tokens`;
const res = await fetch("https://api.github.com/app", {
const res = await fetch("https://api.github.com/app/installations", {
message: "Could not acquire Foundry data-plane token (scope: https://ai.azure.com/.default)."
FOUNDRY_SCOPE = "https://ai.azure.com/.default";
FOUNDRY_DATA_SCOPE = "https://ai.azure.com/.default";
const url = `https://api.github.com/repos/${owner}/${repoName}/contents/.m8t/brain.yaml`;
FOUNDRY_SCOPE2 = "https://ai.azure.com/.default";
```

### 11. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@m8t-stack/cli@0.2.139/dist/cli.js>)

Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L28922: );
L28923: this.context.stdout.write(
L28924: colors.dim("next: run 'm8t doctor' to verify gateway + data-plane access.\n")
...
L28930: // src/commands/open.ts
L28931: import { spawn as spawn5 } from "child_process";
L28932: import { Command as Command55, Option as Option52 } from "clipanion";
...
L28936: var OPEN_TARGETS = ["webapp", "foundry", "portal"];
L28937: var FOUNDRY_PORTAL_URL = "https://ai.azure.com";
L28938: function azurePortalRgUrl(tenantId, subscriptionId, resourceGroup) {
```

### 12. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@m8t-stack/cli@0.2.139/dist/cli.js>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L130: try {
L131: const obj2 = JSON.parse(raw);
L132: if (!obj2 || typeof obj2.repo !== "string" || obj2.repo.length === 0)
...
L343: // ../../packages/github-app-auth/dist/esm/jwt.js
L344: import { createSign, createPrivateKey } from "crypto";
L345: function signAppJwt(args) {
...
L356: sign.update(unsigned);
L357: sign.end();
L358: const signature = sign.sign(createPrivateKey(args.privateKeyPem)).toString("base64url");
...
L461: const appJwt = signAppJwt({ appId, privateKeyPem });
L462: const url = `https://api.github.com/app/installations/${args.installationId}/access_tokens`;
L463: const repoName = args.repository.includes("/") ? args.repository.split("/", 2)[1] : args.repository;
```

### 13. High: Remote Agent Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@m8t-stack/cli@0.2.139/dist/cli.js>)

Source exposes local file and command tools to a remote model endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2159: }
L2160: throw new Error("`fetch` is not defined as a global; Either pass `fetch` to the client, `new OpenAI({ fetch })` or polyfill the global, `globalThis.fetch = fetch`");
L2161: }
...
L12929: init_errors();
L12930: import { spawn } from "child_process";
L12931: var SECRET_VALUE_FLAGS = /* @__PURE__ */ new Set(["--secure-environment-variables"]);
...
L14640: try {
L14641: creds = JSON.parse(fs3.readFileSync(credsPath, "utf8"));
L14642: } catch {
...
L36551: args.stdout(
L36552: `${colors.success("\u2705 The platform is live and your local tools are pointed at it.")}
L36553: gateway:  ${d.gatewayUrl}
```

### 14. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@m8t-stack/cli@0.2.139/dist/cli.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches command-output exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable command-output exfiltration chain: manifest.main -> dist/cli.js
L28922: );
L28923: this.context.stdout.write(
L28924: colors.dim("next: run 'm8t doctor' to verify gateway + data-plane access.\n")
...
L28930: // src/commands/open.ts
L28931: import { spawn as spawn5 } from "child_process";
L28932: import { Command as Command55, Option as Option52 } from "clipanion";
...
L28936: var OPEN_TARGETS = ["webapp", "foundry", "portal"];
L28937: var FOUNDRY_PORTAL_URL = "https://ai.azure.com";
L28938: function azurePortalRgUrl(tenantId, subscriptionId, resourceGroup) {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 17. 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.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 14
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 14

### Published dependency entries
- @azure/ai-projects 2.1.1 (Dependency)
- @azure/arm-appcontainers 2.2.0 (Dependency)
- @azure/arm-communication 4.2.0 (Dependency)
- @azure/core-rest-pipeline 1.25.0 (Dependency)
- @azure/data-tables 13.3.2 (Dependency)
- @azure/identity 4.13.1 (Dependency)
- @azure/keyvault-secrets 4.11.2 (Dependency)
- @azure/monitor-query 1.3.3 (Dependency)
- @inquirer/prompts ^7.0.0 (Dependency)
- clipanion ^4.0.0-rc.4 (Dependency)
- picocolors ^1.1.0 (Dependency)
- semver ^7.8.5 (Dependency)
- typanion ^3.14.0 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.9.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @m8t-stack/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.2.139
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-27T08:37:02.554Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T04:11:18.191Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-01T00:22:10.844Z
- **Known versions:** 40
- **Latest version:** 0.2.158
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** CLI for managing m8t deployments on Azure / Microsoft Agent Foundry
- **Maintainers:** okeren21
- **Artifact files:** 5
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 7,245,170 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@m8t-stack/cli/v/0.2.139>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/m8t-labs/m8t>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/m8t-labs/m8t-releases#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/m8t-labs/m8t-releases/issues>)
