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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@prosopo/procaptcha-frictionless"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@prosopo/procaptcha-frictionless/v/2.13.23.md"
package: "@prosopo/procaptcha-frictionless"
report_status: "published"
title: "@prosopo/procaptcha-frictionless@2.13.23 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "2.13.23"
---

# @prosopo/procaptcha-frictionless@2.13.23 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:** 2.13.23
- **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.

A rendered frictionless captcha fetches an obfuscated detector from a dynamically selected provider and executes it in the browser. The fetched code is not present in the reviewed package.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-01T14:15:31.088Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-01T14:16:17.764Z
- **Download time:** 510 ms
- **Static scan time:** 255 ms
- **AI review time:** 45910 ms
- **Total time:** 46676 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 rendered frictionless captcha fetches an obfuscated detector from a dynamically selected provider and executes it in the browser. The fetched code is not present in the reviewed package.

- **Trigger:** Starting the ProcaptchaFrictionless captcha flow.

- **Impact:** A provider or response-path compromise can run arbitrary JavaScript with the embedding page's origin privileges.

- **Evidence paths:** src/customDetectBot.ts, src/detectorLoader.ts

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-01T14:16:17.764Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Remote provider script loading through a Blob dynamic import.

- **Rationale:** The package deliberately executes opaque, provider-served JavaScript during normal browser use. That is a dangerous remote execution capability but does not by itself establish malicious package intent.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** It requests a detector script from a selected provider at runtime., It converts that provider response into a Blob URL and dynamically imports it., The detector is invoked during the captcha flow, giving provider-supplied code page-script execution.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook., The inspected package contains no Node child-process use, local file access, credential harvesting, or persistence logic.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @prosopo/procaptcha-frictionless@2.13.23.

- Review the evidence and your use of @prosopo/procaptcha-frictionless@2.13.23 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. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/detectorLoader.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@prosopo/procaptcha-frictionless@2.13.23/dist/detectorLoader.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: * pool bundle). Evaluated via a blob URL — the served module is self-contained
L5: * (no imports), so dynamic `import()` of the blob yields its default export.
L6: */
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 6. High: Copied Package Dependency Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 83.0%
- **Path:** dist/cjs/customDetectBot.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@prosopo/procaptcha-frictionless@2.13.23/dist/cjs/customDetectBot.cjs>)

Package metadata claims a different repository identity while copied source loads a runtime dependency bridge.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
package = @prosopo/procaptcha-frictionless; repositoryIdentity = captcha; dependency = @prosopo/api
L3: let _prosopo_procaptcha_common = require("@prosopo/procaptcha-common");
L4: let _prosopo_api = require("@prosopo/api");
L5: let _prosopo_common = require("@prosopo/common");
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 9. 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.

### 10. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** src/customDetectBot.ts\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@prosopo/procaptcha-frictionless@2.13.23/src/customDetectBot.ts%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 1
```

### 11. Medium: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** src/customDetectBot.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@prosopo/procaptcha-frictionless@2.13.23/src/customDetectBot.ts>)

It requests a detector script from a selected provider at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
const assigned =
			prefetchedResult?.assigned ??
			(await withTimeout(
				providerApi.assignDetectorBundle(config.account.address),
				ASSIGN_TIMEOUT_MS,
			));
		if (assigned.useProviderBundle && assigned.detectorScript) {
			// Deliberately untimed: this is a local parse + evaluate, so a timer
			// cannot rescue a stalled main thread — it can only throw away a bundle
			// we are already holding.
			providerDetect = await DetectorLoaderFromScript(assigned.detectorScript);
			detectorSessionId = assigned.detectorSessionId;
		}
```

### 12. Medium: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** src/detectorLoader.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@prosopo/procaptcha-frictionless@2.13.23/src/detectorLoader.ts>)

It converts that provider response into a Blob URL and dynamically imports it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
/**
 * Loads a detector from a provider-served obfuscated ESM string (the per-session
 * pool bundle). Evaluated via a blob URL — the served module is self-contained
 * (no imports), so dynamic `import()` of the blob yields its default export.
 */
export const DetectorLoaderFromScript = async (
	script: string,
): Promise<DetectorType> => {
	const blob = new Blob([script], { type: "text/javascript" });
	const url = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
	try {
		const mod = (await import(/* @vite-ignore */ url)) as {
			default: DetectorType;
		};
		return mod.default;
	} finally {
		URL.revokeObjectURL
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 11
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 12
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 11

### Published dependency entries
- @prosopo/api 4.1.4 (Dependency)
- @prosopo/common 3.1.52 (Dependency)
- @prosopo/locale 3.4.0 (Dependency)
- @prosopo/procaptcha-common 2.12.5 (Dependency)
- @prosopo/procaptcha-pow 2.11.5 (Dependency)
- @prosopo/procaptcha-puzzle 2.11.5 (Dependency)
- @prosopo/procaptcha-react 2.9.121 (Dependency)
- @prosopo/types 5.5.3 (Dependency)
- @prosopo/widget-skeleton 2.8.6 (Dependency)
- dotenv 16.4.5 (Dependency)
- react 19.2.8 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @prosopo/procaptcha-frictionless
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.13.23
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-09-01T14:02:25.284Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T04:11:01.159Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-08T13:49:53.456Z
- **Known versions:** 39
- **Latest version:** 2.21.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Author:** PROSOPO LIMITED
- **Maintainers:** christaylor, goastler, hughparry
- **Runtime engines:** npm: ^11, node: ^24
- **Artifact files:** 90
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 588,426 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@prosopo/procaptcha-frictionless/v/2.13.23>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/prosopo/captcha>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/prosopo/captcha#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/prosopo/captcha/issues>)
