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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@m8t-stack/cli/v/0.2.154"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@m8t-stack/cli/v/0.2.154.md"
package: "@m8t-stack/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@m8t-stack/cli@0.2.154 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.2.154"
---

# @m8t-stack/cli@0.2.154 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 16 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:** 0.2.154
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

No confirmed malicious attack surface was established. The package performs privileged deployment and telemetry actions only when its corresponding CLI commands are invoked.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-31T22:29:24.619Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-31T22:30:39.622Z
- **Download time:** 765 ms
- **Static scan time:** 7626 ms
- **AI review time:** 66611 ms
- **Total time:** 75003 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** No confirmed malicious attack surface was established. The package performs privileged deployment and telemetry actions only when its corresponding CLI commands are invoked.

- **Trigger:** A user runs \`m8t telemetry enroll\` or another deployment command.

- **Impact:** Telemetry enrollment transmits an Azure access token to the configured m8t ingestion service; no automatic installation-time exfiltration or persistence was found.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-31T22:30:39.622Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Explicit Azure deployment, telemetry enrollment, and optional companion installation.

- **Rationale:** The package has risky administrative capabilities, including an explicit telemetry command that submits an Azure token to its fixed service. Static inspection found no registry install hook, self-dependency chain, automatic credential harvesting, or covert persistence, so these behaviors are package-aligned user-invoked CLI functions rather than malicious package-install behavior.

- **Network endpoints:** m8t-admin.wonderfuldesert-721e332f.eastus2.azurecontainerapps.io

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 84.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for:** The telemetry enrollment path sends an Azure access token to a fixed m8t ingestion host., That network action is reachable only through the explicit \`telemetry enroll\` CLI command., The manifest exposes a CLI and has no install lifecycle hook; its only lifecycle script is \`prepublishOnly\`., The companion installer and start-at-login setup are behind the explicit \`companion install\` command.

- **Evidence against:** No preinstall, install, or postinstall script is present., No self-dependency or hidden runtime package installation was found., The token use, network requests, Azure changes, and companion setup are command-specific deployment functions rather than automatic package-install behavior., The import-time DNS shim only changes lookup handling for Azure AI service hostnames and does not redirect to a package-controlled host.

## 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@0.2.154/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@0.2.154/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@0.2.154/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: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@m8t-stack/cli@0.2.154/dist/cli.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L29045: );
L29046: this.context.stdout.write(
L29047: colors.dim("next: run 'm8t doctor' to verify gateway + data-plane access.\n")
...
L29053: // src/commands/open.ts
L29054: import { spawn as spawn5 } from "child_process";
L29055: import { Command as Command55, Option as Option52 } from "clipanion";
...
L29059: var OPEN_TARGETS = ["webapp", "foundry", "portal"];
L29060: var FOUNDRY_PORTAL_URL = "https://ai.azure.com";
L29061: function azurePortalRgUrl(tenantId, subscriptionId, resourceGroup) {
```

### 11. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@m8t-stack/cli@0.2.154/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;
```

### 12. High: Remote Agent Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@m8t-stack/cli@0.2.154/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 {
...
L36858: args.stdout(
L36859: `${colors.success("\u2705 The platform is live and your local tools are pointed at it.")}
L36860: gateway:  ${d.gatewayUrl}
```

### 13. 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@0.2.154/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
L29045: );
L29046: this.context.stdout.write(
L29047: colors.dim("next: run 'm8t doctor' to verify gateway + data-plane access.\n")
...
L29053: // src/commands/open.ts
L29054: import { spawn as spawn5 } from "child_process";
L29055: import { Command as Command55, Option as Option52 } from "clipanion";
...
L29059: var OPEN_TARGETS = ["webapp", "foundry", "portal"];
L29060: var FOUNDRY_PORTAL_URL = "https://ai.azure.com";
L29061: function azurePortalRgUrl(tenantId, subscriptionId, resourceGroup) {
```

### 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.

## 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:** 0.2.154
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-31T04:09:48.488Z
- **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:** 7,301,369 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@m8t-stack/cli/v/0.2.154>)
- [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>)