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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@pawlogic/dl/v/0.34.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@pawlogic/dl/v/0.34.0.md"
package: "@pawlogic/dl"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "@pawlogic/dl@0.34.0 npm security report"
verdict: "manual_review"
version: "0.34.0"
---

# @pawlogic/dl@0.34.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 14 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Manual Review
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Under Review
- **Threat category:** Unknown
- **Selected version:** 0.34.0
- **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: manual review; recommendation: manual review. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The package manifest and entrypoint show a required playwright-core dependency imported by dl.mjs, but its behavior could not be established from this snapshot. No independent attack behavior was confirmed, so this requires manual review.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Manual Review
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 76.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-20T12:48:47.917Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-20T12:50:06.754Z
- **Download time:** 1020 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1629 ms
- **AI review time:** 76188 ms
- **Total time:** 78837 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:** No concrete attack was established in the inspected package source. The imported playwright-core dependency remains an unresolved runtime boundary.

- **Trigger:** Invoking the dl CLI loads dl.mjs and its declared dependency.

- **Impact:** The dependency behavior cannot be assessed, so a clean verdict is not supported; no attack is confirmed.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dl.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-20T12:50:06.754Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The package imports Chromium functionality from playwright-core, whose source was unavailable in this package snapshot.

- **Rationale:** The package manifest and entrypoint show a required playwright-core dependency imported by dl.mjs, but its behavior could not be established from this snapshot. No independent attack behavior was confirmed, so this requires manual review.

- **Files touched:** package.json, dl.mjs

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Manual Review

- **Confidence:** 76.0%

- **Recommended action:** manual\_review

- **Intent class:** Unknown

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **AI review observations:** The manifest declares playwright-core as a dependency, and dl.mjs imports its Chromium API; that dependency's behavior remains unresolved from this package snapshot.

- **Evidence against:** The manifest exposes CLI entrypoints and contains no npm lifecycle script.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @pawlogic/dl@0.34.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @pawlogic/dl@0.34.0 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: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dl.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pawlogic/dl@0.34.0/dl.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import e,{readFileSync as t,existsSync as i,mkdirSync as n,writeFileSync as r,chmodSync as o,realpathSync as s,rmSync as a,cpSync as c}from"node:fs";import l,{dirname as d,resolve ...
```

### 2. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** dl.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pawlogic/dl@0.34.0/dl.mjs>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import e,{readFileSync as t,existsSync as i,mkdirSync as n,writeFileSync as r,chmodSync as o,realpathSync as s,rmSync as a,cpSync as c}from"node:fs";import l,{dirname as d,resolve ...
```

### 3. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dl.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pawlogic/dl@0.34.0/dl.mjs>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import e,{readFileSync as t,existsSync as i,mkdirSync as n,writeFileSync as r,chmodSync as o,realpathSync as s,rmSync as a,cpSync as c}from"node:fs";import l,{dirname as d,resolve ...
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

### 6. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dl.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pawlogic/dl@0.34.0/dl.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import e,{readFileSync as t,existsSync as i,mkdirSync as n,writeFileSync as r,chmodSync as o,realpathSync as s,rmSync as a,cpSync as c}from"node:fs";import l,{dirname as d,resolve ...
```

### 7. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dl.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pawlogic/dl@0.34.0/dl.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import e,{readFileSync as t,existsSync as i,mkdirSync as n,writeFileSync as r,chmodSync as o,realpathSync as s,rmSync as a,cpSync as c}from"node:fs";import l,{dirname as d,resolve ...
```

### 8. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dl.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pawlogic/dl@0.34.0/dl.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import e,{readFileSync as t,existsSync as i,mkdirSync as n,writeFileSync as r,chmodSync as o,realpathSync as s,rmSync as a,cpSync as c}from"node:fs";import l,{dirname as d,resolve ...
```

### 9. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dl.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pawlogic/dl@0.34.0/dl.mjs>)

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.bin -> dl.mjs
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import e,{readFileSync as t,existsSync as i,mkdirSync as n,writeFileSync as r,chmodSync as o,realpathSync as s,rmSync as a,cpSync as c}from"node:fs";import l,{dirname as d,resolve ...
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 12. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dl-npm-update.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pawlogic/dl@0.34.0/dl-npm-update.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = dl-npm-update.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 11287
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 13. 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.

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1

### Published dependency entries
- playwright-core 1.63.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @pawlogic/dl
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.34.0
- **Version published:** 2026-10-20T12:44:02.171Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-24T21:07:52.269Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T23:15:41.189Z
- **Known versions:** 75
- **Latest version:** 0.41.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Maintainers:** shanepawlogic
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 4
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 801,702 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@pawlogic/dl/v/0.34.0>)
