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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@m8t-stack/cli/v/0.2.96"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@m8t-stack/cli/v/0.2.96.md"
package: "@m8t-stack/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@m8t-stack/cli@0.2.96 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.2.96"
---

# @m8t-stack/cli@0.2.96 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Passed — safe to install** — No malicious behavior detected. 16 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:** 0.2.96
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

No confirmed malicious attack surface. The CLI performs cloud-management and optional companion-install operations only through named user commands.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-11T14:57:28.278Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-11T14:58:32.813Z
- **Download time:** 504 ms
- **Static scan time:** 7368 ms
- **AI review time:** 56661 ms
- **Total time:** 64535 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** No confirmed malicious attack surface. The CLI performs cloud-management and optional companion-install operations only through named user commands.

- **Trigger:** User runs an m8t command such as telemetry enrollment or companion installation.

- **Impact:** No unconsented install-time execution, credential exfiltration, or foreign control-surface mutation found.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-11T14:58:32.813Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** User-invoked Azure/GitHub operations and verified companion download

- **Rationale:** Static hints conflate documented, user-invoked cloud CLI features with malicious behavior. Direct inspection found no install hook or concealed execution chain; potentially sensitive operations are explicit command functionality.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 90.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence against:** package.json has only a prepublishOnly build hook; no install-time lifecycle hook., dist/cli.js registers the CLI and runs commands only after user invocation., Telemetry enrollment is an explicit \`m8t telemetry enroll\` command and documents optional contact fields., Companion downloads are initiated by explicit CLI workflows, fetched from m8t-labs GitHub releases, and SHA-256 verified., Companion login-item persistence is limited to the package-owned companion and explicit install flow., No eval, shell interpolation, credential harvesting, or hidden foreign-package overwrite was confirmed.

## 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@0.2.96/dist/cli.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L12950: init_errors();
L12951: import { spawn } from "child_process";
L12952: 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@0.2.96/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 obj = JSON.parse(raw);
L132: if (!obj || typeof obj.repo !== "string" || obj.repo.length === 0)
...
L332: // ../../packages/github-app-auth/dist/esm/jwt.js
L333: import { createSign, createPrivateKey } from "crypto";
L334: function signAppJwt(args) {
...
L345: sign.update(unsigned);
L346: sign.end();
L347: const signature = sign.sign(createPrivateKey(args.privateKeyPem)).toString("base64url");
...
L441: const appJwt = signAppJwt({ appId, privateKeyPem });
L442: const url = `https://api.github.com/app/installations/${args.installationId}/access_tokens`;
L443: 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@0.2.96/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 ${armTokenResp.token}`,
credentials: { keys: { Authorization: `Bearer ${minted.token}` } }
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 ?? {} },
```

### 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@0.2.96/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/${args.installationId}/access_tokens`;
const url = `https://management.azure.com${args.projectArmId}/connections/${args.connectionName}?api-version=${FOUNDRY_API}`;
ARM_SCOPE = "https://management.azure.com/.default";
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";
```

### 11. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@m8t-stack/cli@0.2.96/dist/cli.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L27674: );
L27675: this.context.stdout.write(
L27676: colors.dim("next: run 'm8t doctor' to verify gateway + data-plane access.\n")
...
L27682: // src/commands/open.ts
L27683: import { spawn as spawn5 } from "child_process";
L27684: import { Command as Command53, Option as Option50 } from "clipanion";
...
L27688: var OPEN_TARGETS = ["webapp", "foundry", "portal"];
L27689: var FOUNDRY_PORTAL_URL = "https://ai.azure.com";
L27690: 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@0.2.96/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 obj = JSON.parse(raw);
L132: if (!obj || typeof obj.repo !== "string" || obj.repo.length === 0)
...
L332: // ../../packages/github-app-auth/dist/esm/jwt.js
L333: import { createSign, createPrivateKey } from "crypto";
L334: function signAppJwt(args) {
...
L345: sign.update(unsigned);
L346: sign.end();
L347: const signature = sign.sign(createPrivateKey(args.privateKeyPem)).toString("base64url");
...
L441: const appJwt = signAppJwt({ appId, privateKeyPem });
L442: const url = `https://api.github.com/app/installations/${args.installationId}/access_tokens`;
L443: const repoName = args.repository.includes("/") ? args.repository.split("/", 2)[1] : args.repository;
```

### 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@0.2.96/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
L27674: );
L27675: this.context.stdout.write(
L27676: colors.dim("next: run 'm8t doctor' to verify gateway + data-plane access.\n")
...
L27682: // src/commands/open.ts
L27683: import { spawn as spawn5 } from "child_process";
L27684: import { Command as Command53, Option as Option50 } from "clipanion";
...
L27688: var OPEN_TARGETS = ["webapp", "foundry", "portal"];
L27689: var FOUNDRY_PORTAL_URL = "https://ai.azure.com";
L27690: 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:** 0.2.96
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-11T14:50:22.923Z
- **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:** 6,797,947 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@m8t-stack/cli/v/0.2.96>)
- [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>)
