---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@pmate/cli/v/0.30.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@pmate/cli/v/0.30.2.md"
package: "@pmate/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@pmate/cli@0.30.2 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.30.2"
---

# @pmate/cli@0.30.2 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:** Credential Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 0.30.2
- **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 no lifecycle trigger, but it forwards an existing session token to a hub whose destination can be overridden. This is a concrete conditional credential-forwarding capability with no demonstrated malicious activation.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-29T08:35:35.501Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-29T08:37:17.490Z
- **Download time:** 1039 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2484 ms
- **AI review time:** 98466 ms
- **Total time:** 101989 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:** A user-invoked AI function client can use an environment-selected hub URL while authenticating with the existing pMate session token. No automatic install-time attack was identified.

- **Trigger:** A user runs an AI-assisted command that creates the function client.

- **Impact:** An operator-controlled hub override could receive a valid pMate session credential and supplied repository context.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/index.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-29T08:37:17.490Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The client resolves its hub URL from PMATE\_HUB\_BASE\_URL and passes the stored session token to that hub client.

- **Rationale:** The package has no lifecycle trigger, but it forwards an existing session token to a hub whose destination can be overridden. This is a concrete conditional credential-forwarding capability with no demonstrated malicious activation.

- **Network endpoints:** https://hub.pmate.chat

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 86.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The package exposes a command-line entrypoint rather than an install lifecycle hook., The bundled code runs its main routine only when invoked as the executable., The function-service base URL accepts an environment-provided override., A stored session token is supplied to a hub client whose base URL may be overridden., AI suggestion code sends repository context to the function client.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @pmate/cli@0.30.2.

- Review the evidence and your use of @pmate/cli@0.30.2 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. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pmate/cli@0.30.2/dist/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L9292: // [redacted].ts
L9293: var import_node_child_process = require("child_process");
L9294: var import_node_path6 = __toESM(require("path"));
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pmate/cli@0.30.2/dist/index.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L20295: stdio: "inherit",
L20296: shell: true,
L20297: env: { ...process.env, ...env ?? {} }
```

### 4. High: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pmate/cli@0.30.2/dist/index.js>)

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L16801: async function loadChatSdk() {
L16802: const dynamicImport = new Function("specifier", "return import(specifier)");
L16803: return await dynamicImport("@pmate/chat-sdk/runtime");
```

### 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:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pmate/cli@0.30.2/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L16801: async function loadChatSdk() {
L16802: const dynamicImport = new Function("specifier", "return import(specifier)");
L16803: return await dynamicImport("@pmate/chat-sdk/runtime");
...
L16813: const singular = args.type === "function" ? "Function" : "Worker";
L16814: const baseUrl = (args.baseUrl || process.env.PMATE_AGENT_API_BASE_URL || "https://agent-api.pmate.chat").replace(/\/+$/, "");
L16815: const token = readRequiredSession({ preferredApp: DEFAULT_APP_ID }).token;
```

### 9. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pmate/cli@0.30.2/dist/index.js>)

Source appears to send environment or credential material to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L90: function buildSessionStorePath() {
L91: return process.env.PMATE_SESSION_FILE?.trim() || import_node_path5.default.join(import_node_os4.default.homedir(), ".pmate", "session.json");
L92: }
...
L178: const raw = (0, import_node_fs4.readFileSync)(sessionPath, "utf8");
L179: const parsed = JSON.parse(raw);
L180: const store = normalizeStore(parsed);
...
L5816: flush(true);
L5817: output.end();
L5818: } catch (error) {
...
L7692: static async toWire(msg, transport) {
L7693: if (transport === "websocket") {
L7694: const normalized2 = await _Msg.normalizeForWire(msg);
```

### 10. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pmate/cli@0.30.2/dist/index.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/index.js:
(0, import_node_fs4.writeFileSync)(sessionPath, JSON.stringify(store, null, 2), {
function ensureWsProtocol(baseUrl) {
if (/^wss?:\/\//i.test(baseUrl))
return baseUrl;
if (/^https:\/\//i.test(baseUrl))
return baseUrl.replace(/^https:/i, "wss:");
if (/^http:\/\//i.test(baseUrl))
return baseUrl.replace(/^http:/i, "ws:");
```

### 11. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pmate/cli@0.30.2/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L90: function buildSessionStorePath() {
L91: return process.env.PMATE_SESSION_FILE?.trim() || import_node_path5.default.join(import_node_os4.default.homedir(), ".pmate", "session.json");
L92: }
...
L178: const raw = (0, import_node_fs4.readFileSync)(sessionPath, "utf8");
L179: const parsed = JSON.parse(raw);
L180: const store = normalizeStore(parsed);
...
L5816: flush(true);
L5817: output.end();
L5818: } catch (error) {
...
L7692: static async toWire(msg, transport) {
L7693: if (transport === "websocket") {
L7694: const normalized2 = await _Msg.normalizeForWire(msg);
```

### 12. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pmate/cli@0.30.2/dist/index.js>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: scripts.start -> dist/index.js
L90: function buildSessionStorePath() {
L91: return process.env.PMATE_SESSION_FILE?.trim() || import_node_path5.default.join(import_node_os4.default.homedir(), ".pmate", "session.json");
L92: }
...
L178: const raw = (0, import_node_fs4.readFileSync)(sessionPath, "utf8");
L179: const parsed = JSON.parse(raw);
L180: const store = normalizeStore(parsed);
...
L5816: flush(true);
L5817: output.end();
L5818: } catch (error) {
...
L7692: static async toWire(msg, transport) {
L7693: if (transport === "websocket") {
L7694: const normalized2 = await _Msg.normalizeForWire(msg);
```

### 13. High: Trigger Reachable Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pmate/cli@0.30.2/dist/index.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches credential exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable credential exfiltration chain: scripts.start -> dist/index.js
L90: function buildSessionStorePath() {
L91: return process.env.PMATE_SESSION_FILE?.trim() || import_node_path5.default.join(import_node_os4.default.homedir(), ".pmate", "session.json");
L92: }
...
L178: const raw = (0, import_node_fs4.readFileSync)(sessionPath, "utf8");
L179: const parsed = JSON.parse(raw);
L180: const store = normalizeStore(parsed);
...
L5816: flush(true);
L5817: output.end();
L5818: } catch (error) {
...
L7692: static async toWire(msg, transport) {
L7693: if (transport === "websocket") {
L7694: const normalized2 = await _Msg.normalizeForWire(msg);
```

### 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:** 85.0%

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

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

- **Dependencies:** 21
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 9
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 21

### Published dependency entries
- @alicloud/alidns20150109 ^4.0.0 (Dependency)
- @alicloud/cdn20180510 ^8.0.0 (Dependency)
- @alicloud/fc20230330 ^4.7.4 (Dependency)
- @alicloud/openapi-client ^0.4.15 (Dependency)
- @alicloud/sts20150401 ^1.2.0 (Dependency)
- @linear/sdk ^70.0.0 (Dependency)
- @pmate/chat-sdk ^0.2.0 (Dependency)
- @pmate/hub-sdk ^0.4.1 (Dependency)
- @types/ali-oss ^6.16.13 (Dependency)
- ajv ^8.17.1 (Dependency)
- ali-oss ^6.23.0 (Dependency)
- chalk ^4.1.2 (Dependency)
- dotenv ^16.6.1 (Dependency)
- jsqr ^1.4.0 (Dependency)
- openai ^6.16.0 (Dependency)
- playwright ^1.58.2 (Dependency)
- png-to-ico ^3.0.1 (Dependency)
- pngjs ^7.0.0 (Dependency)
- sharp ^0.34.5 (Dependency)
- tslib ^2.8.1 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.8.2 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @pmate/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.30.2
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-29T08:32:35.883Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T23:06:50.894Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T10:26:23.494Z
- **Known versions:** 68
- **Latest version:** 0.46.2
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** CLI utilities for the pMate project
- **Maintainers:** ramroll
- **Keywords:** cli, typescript, pmate
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=24.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 7
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 993,849 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@pmate/cli/v/0.30.2>)