---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@nebula.js/cli-serve/v/7.1.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@nebula.js/cli-serve/v/7.1.2.md"
package: "@nebula.js/cli-serve"
report_status: "published"
title: "@nebula.js/cli-serve@7.1.2 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "7.1.2"
---

# @nebula.js/cli-serve@7.1.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Remote code execution and likely credential exfiltration during installation.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Remote Code Execution
- **Selected version:** 7.1.2
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

npm installation triggers a downloader that executes an obfuscated secondary payload. That payload includes remote-response evaluation and credential-token handling.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-04T10:57:09.977Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-04T10:57:47.871Z
- **Download time:** 1274 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3404 ms
- **AI review time:** 33214 ms
- **Total time:** 37894 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** npm installation triggers a downloader that executes an obfuscated secondary payload. That payload includes remote-response evaluation and credential-token handling.

- **Trigger:** npm preinstall

- **Impact:** Remote code execution and likely credential exfiltration during installation.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, setup.mjs, math\_init.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-04T10:57:47.871Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** downloaded Bun executes obfuscated payload with remote eval

- **Attack narrative:** Installing the package runs setup.mjs, which uses an existing or GitHub-downloaded Bun binary to execute math\_init.js. The latter is an obfuscated, self-starting payload; its source contains a remote fetch whose decoded response is passed to eval, plus npm/GitHub token-handling logic. This establishes an unconsented install-time remote code execution chain.

- **Rationale:** The preinstall hook deliberately bootstraps and executes an unrelated obfuscated payload, including remote code evaluation and credential-related logic. This is concrete malicious installation behavior, not CLI-serving functionality.

- **Files touched:** package.json, setup.mjs, math\_init.js

- **Network endpoints:** https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/releases/download/bun-v1.3.13/

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** package.json runs \`node setup.mjs\` at preinstall., setup.mjs downloads a Bun binary from GitHub and executes \`math\_init.js\`., math\_init.js is heavily obfuscated and self-invokes at load., math\_init.js fetches remote content and evaluates its decoded body., math\_init.js contains token-handling paths for npm and GitHub credentials., The install path has no package-serving justification for this payload runner.

- **Evidence against:** lib/serve.js is a conventional local development server., The only plainly identified setup download host is github.com/oven-sh/bun.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nebula.js/cli-serve@7.1.2/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.preinstall = node setup.mjs
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** setup.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nebula.js/cli-serve@7.1.2/setup.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import { execFileSync } from "child_process";
L3: import _0x488df8 from "fs";
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** setup.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nebula.js/cli-serve@7.1.2/setup.mjs>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L252: }
L253: if (_0x5d8a27.lQXcL(process.platform, _0x5d8a27.MJNCi) && _0x5d8a27.WaLKQ(hc, "powershell", [_0x5d8a27.PpNLF])) {
L254: _0x5d8a27.tHRFe(execFileSync, "powershell", [_0x5d8a27.DVCdV, _0x5d8a27.PZdQt, _0x5d8a27.NaIqo, "Bypass", _0x5d8a27.XFZDA, "Expand-Archive -LiteralPath '" + _0x53801b + "' -Destina...
```

### 5. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** math\_init.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nebula.js/cli-serve@7.1.2/math_init.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: // @bun @bun-cjs
L2: var MmgoCP,etDiOOB,JqTtnbZ,bc3Kak,ZQmUTyQ,TTUgga,MDX6yrw,h8wMJNB,CabwE2L,x5ErqV;function WV8StW(MmgoCP,etDiOOB,JqTtnbZ){for(JqTtnbZ=0x0;JqTtnbZ<etDiOOB;JqTtnbZ++)MmgoCP.push(MmgoCP...
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/3535.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nebula.js/cli-serve@7.1.2/dist/3535.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: "use strict";(self.webpackChunk_nebula_js_cli_serve=self.webpackChunk_nebula_js_cli_serve||[]).push([[3535],{13535(i,e,n){async function o(i,e){return e?.runtimeModuleMocks?.[i]?e....
L2: //# sourceMappingURL=3535.js.map
```

### 7. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** lib/webpack.build.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nebula.js/cli-serve@7.1.2/lib/webpack.build.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L17: 
L18: const { version } = require('../package.json');
L19: 
...
L43: '@nebula.js/locale': path.resolve(moduleDir, '../../../apis/locale/src'),
L44: fixtures: path.resolve(process.cwd(), serveConfig.fixturePath || ''),
L45: },
...
L96: __NEBULA_DEV__: true,
L97: 'process.env.NEBULA_VERSION': JSON.stringify(version),
L98: 'process.env.NEBULA_VERSION_HASH': JSON.stringify(versionHash),
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 11. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/eRender.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nebula.js/cli-serve@7.1.2/dist/eRender.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: /*! For license information please see eRender.js.LICENSE.txt */
L2: (()=>{var e,t,n,r,o={73183(e,t,n){"use strict";const r=Symbol("SemVer ANY");class o{static get ANY(){return r}constructor(e,t){if(t=i(t),e instanceof o){if(e.loose===!!t.loose)retu...
L3: 0% {
```

### 12. Low: Obfuscated
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 60.0%

Package source has low-confidence obfuscation-like patterns.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 16. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/9772.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nebula.js/cli-serve@7.1.2/dist/9772.js>)

Package contains source files above the normal full-analysis size ceiling.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/9772.js
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 6717867
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 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:** preinstall
- **Dependencies:** 18
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 18

### Published dependency entries
- @nebula.js/cli-build ^7.1.1 (Dependency)
- @qlik/api ^2.11.0 (Dependency)
- body-parser 2.2.2 (Dependency)
- chalk 4.1.2 (Dependency)
- chokidar 5.0.0 (Dependency)
- cross-env 10.1.0 (Dependency)
- express 5.2.1 (Dependency)
- extend 3.0.2 (Dependency)
- html-webpack-plugin 5.6.7 (Dependency)
- portfinder 1.0.38 (Dependency)
- puppeteer 25.1.0 (Dependency)
- regenerator-runtime 0.14.1 (Dependency)
- source-map-loader 5.0.0 (Dependency)
- webpack 5.107.2 (Dependency)
- webpack-cli 7.0.3 (Dependency)
- webpack-dev-server 5.2.5 (Dependency)
- ws 8.21.0 (Dependency)
- yargs 18.0.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @nebula.js/cli-serve
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 7.1.2
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-04T10:46:39.018Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-04T10:57:47.871Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-15T01:55:37.041Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 7.2.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Author:** QlikTech International AB
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=24.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 236
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 66,286,682 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@nebula.js/cli-serve/v/7.1.2>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/qlik-oss/nebula.js.git>)
