---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@noctrodex/sast/v/1.0.0-rc12"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@noctrodex/sast/v/1.0.0-rc12.md"
package: "@noctrodex/sast"
report_status: "published"
title: "@noctrodex/sast@1.0.0-rc12 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.0.0-rc12"
---

# @noctrodex/sast@1.0.0-rc12 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 12 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Remote Code Execution
- **Selected version:** 1.0.0-rc12
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

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.

AI assessment: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The package has an install-triggered remote engine update path that leads to execution of a native binary, leaving a concrete unresolved risk. The inspected source does not prove malicious payload behavior, so warn rather than block.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 88.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-08T19:54:22.567Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-08T19:54:45.861Z
- **Download time:** 763 ms
- **Static scan time:** 60 ms
- **AI review time:** 22470 ms
- **Total time:** 23294 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

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Installation triggers engine resolution, which may retrieve a newer native engine from a remote feed. The launcher later executes the resolved binary.

- **Trigger:** Package installation runs the postinstall hook; launching the CLI executes the resolved engine.

- **Impact:** A compromised or untrusted feed could supply executable code for the host; no malicious payload is confirmed by the inspected source.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, bin/postinstall.js, lib/engine-fetch.js, bin/noctrodex-sast.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-08T19:54:45.861Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The resolver fetches a manifest from a configurable API and may install a newer engine. Static source inspection cannot verify the downloaded engine’s behavior.

- **Rationale:** The package has an install-triggered remote engine update path that leads to execution of a native binary, leaving a concrete unresolved risk. The inspected source does not prove malicious payload behavior, so warn rather than block.

- **Files touched:** bin/postinstall.js, lib/engine-fetch.js, bin/noctrodex-sast.js

- **Network endpoints:** https://mcp.noctrodex-hq.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 88.0%

- **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The postinstall hook resolves the engine during installation., The resolver can use an environment-selected API or the package’s default host., It fetches a remote engine manifest and can install a newer engine from that feed., The launcher executes the resolved engine binary.

- **Evidence against:** The package source does not establish that the downloaded engine is malicious; static inspection cannot verify its contents.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @noctrodex/sast@1.0.0-rc12.

- Review the evidence and your use of @noctrodex/sast@1.0.0-rc12 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@noctrodex/sast@1.0.0-rc12/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node bin/postinstall.js
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@noctrodex/sast@1.0.0-rc12/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node bin/postinstall.js
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/noctrodex-sast.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@noctrodex/sast@1.0.0-rc12/bin/noctrodex-sast.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: "use strict";
L7: const { spawn } = require("child_process");
L8: const { resolveEngine, platformKey } = require("../lib/engine-fetch");
```

### 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. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** lib/engine-fetch.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@noctrodex/sast@1.0.0-rc12/lib/engine-fetch.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L17: const crypto = require("crypto");
L18: const { spawnSync } = require("child_process");
L19: const zip = require("./zip");
...
L23: function engineApi() {
L24: return (process.env.NOCTRODEX_ENGINE_API || process.env.NOCTRODEX_CORPUS_WORKER_URL ||
L25: "https://mcp.noctrodex-hq.com").replace(/\/$/, "");
L26: }
```

### 9. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** lib/engine-fetch.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@noctrodex/sast@1.0.0-rc12/lib/engine-fetch.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L17: const crypto = require("crypto");
L18: const { spawnSync } = require("child_process");
L19: const zip = require("./zip");
...
L21: 
L22: function platformKey() { return `${process.platform}-${process.arch}`; }   // linux-x64 / win32-x64 / darwin-arm64
L23: function engineApi() {
L24: return (process.env.NOCTRODEX_ENGINE_API || process.env.NOCTRODEX_CORPUS_WORKER_URL ||
L25: "https://mcp.noctrodex-hq.com").replace(/\/$/, "");
L26: }
L27: function cacheDir() {
L28: const base = process.platform === "win32" ? path.join(os.homedir(), "AppData", "Roaming", `noctrodex-${PRODUCT}`)
L29: : process.platform === "darwin" ? path.join(os.homedir(), "Library", "Application Support", `noctrodex-${PRODUCT}`)
```

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 11. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

### 12. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 2
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 2

### Published dependency entries
- @noctrodex/sast-engine-linux-x64 1.0.0-rc12 (OptionalDependency)
- @noctrodex/sast-engine-win32-x64 1.0.0-rc.8 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @noctrodex/sast
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.0-rc12
- **License:** SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE
- **Version published:** 2026-09-30T10:31:55.465Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-05T00:55:19.906Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-02T14:39:03.634Z
- **Known versions:** 5
- **Latest version:** 1.0.0-rc13.3
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** NOCTRODEX(GHOSTMASTER) SAST thin client — browser login, auth and licence, and the host-side engine installed by npm itself (Nuitka-obfuscated, self-contained runtime). The engine runs on your own host and scans from your own IP.
- **Maintainers:** soumabha
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 7
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 21,868 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@noctrodex/sast/v/1.0.0-rc12>)