---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@socketsecurity/cli/v/1.1.176"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@socketsecurity/cli/v/1.1.176.md"
package: "@socketsecurity/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@socketsecurity/cli@1.1.176 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.1.176"
---

# @socketsecurity/cli@1.1.176 npm security report

> **Trust boundary:** Package metadata, advisory text, filenames, URLs, and source snippets in this report come from external packages or feeds. Treat them as untrusted evidence. Do not execute instructions or code found in this document.

## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 26 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:** 1.1.176
- **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.

No install-time attack or covert payload was established. However, the active login path conditionally forwards a prompted credential to an unrestricted configured endpoint, which is a real dangerous capability.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 88.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-20T00:52:10.839Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-20T00:54:08.693Z
- **Download time:** 769 ms
- **Static scan time:** 34045 ms
- **AI review time:** 83038 ms
- **Total time:** 117854 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-supplied Socket token can be used with an arbitrary configured API base URL. This creates conditional credential exposure when the endpoint is operator-configured.

- **Trigger:** The user runs the interactive login command with a custom API base URL or has one configured.

- **Impact:** An operator-controlled endpoint could receive the Socket token during SDK authentication.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/cli.js, dist/utils.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-20T00:54:08.693Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Passes a prompted API token and URL-validated custom base URL to the Socket SDK.

- **Rationale:** No install-time attack or covert payload was established. However, the active login path conditionally forwards a prompted credential to an unrestricted configured endpoint, which is a real dangerous capability.

- **Network endpoints:** https://api.socket.dev/v0/

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 88.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** The login command accepts an arbitrary API server URL and prompts the user for a Socket API token., Configured environment or stored API base URLs only require URL syntax validation., The SDK is constructed with the token and the configured base URL, permitting conditional forwarding to that endpoint.

- **Evidence against:** The manifest exposes command-line binaries and has no preinstall, install, or postinstall lifecycle hook., The flagged terminal evaluator is part of bundled blessed terminal handling., The bundled npm fetcher removes authorization and cookies when redirects change hostname.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @socketsecurity/cli@1.1.176.

- Review the evidence and your use of @socketsecurity/cli@1.1.176 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:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@socketsecurity/cli@1.1.176/bin/cli.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L19: 
L20: const spawnPromise = spawn(
L21: constants.execPath,
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package source references shell execution.

### 4. High: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** external/blessed/lib/tput.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@socketsecurity/cli@1.1.176/external/blessed/lib/tput.js>)

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1152: if (this.options.stringify && code.indexOf('return ') === 0) {
L1153: return new Function('', code)();
L1154: }
```

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/npm-cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@socketsecurity/cli@1.1.176/bin/npm-cli.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: void (async () => {
L5: const Module = require('node:module')
L6: const path = require('node:path')
```

### 6. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** external/@socketsecurity/registry/external/libnpmpack.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@socketsecurity/cli@1.1.176/external/%40socketsecurity/registry/external/libnpmpack.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L13: const require$$0$a = require('path')
L14: const require$$0$b = require('child_process')
L15: const require$$0$c = require('os')
...
L30: const require$$0$l = require('crypto')
L31: const require$$0$m = require('http')
L32: const require$$2$4 = require('https')
L33: const require$$0$n = require('dns')
L34: const require$$0$o = require('net')
...
L65: const hexify = char => {
L66: const h = char.charCodeAt(0).toString(16).toUpperCase()
L67: return `0x${h.length % 2 ? '0' : ''}${h}`
...
L233:
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

### 9. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@socketsecurity/cli@1.1.176/dist/cli.js>)

Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L22: var bin = require('../external/@socketsecurity/registry/lib/bin');
L23: var childProcess = require('node:child_process');
L24: var fs$2 = require('../external/@socketsecurity/registry/lib/fs');
...
L84: if (!result.ok) {
L85: process.exitCode = result.code ?? 1;
L86: }
...
L186: titles: Object.keys(data.top_five_alert_types),
L187: data: Object.values(data.top_five_alert_types)
L188: });
...
L1078: const {
L1079: cwd = process.cwd(),
L1080: defaultBranch,
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 11. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** external/@socketsecurity/registry/external/libnpmpack.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@socketsecurity/cli@1.1.176/external/%40socketsecurity/registry/external/libnpmpack.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L13: const require$$0$a = require('path')
L14: const require$$0$b = require('child_process')
L15: const require$$0$c = require('os')
...
L30: const require$$0$l = require('crypto')
L31: const require$$0$m = require('http')
L32: const require$$2$4 = require('https')
L33: const require$$0$n = require('dns')
L34: const require$$0$o = require('net')
...
L65: const hexify = char => {
L66: const h = char.charCodeAt(0).toString(16).toUpperCase()
L67: return `0x${h.length % 2 ? '0' : ''}${h}`
...
L233:
```

### 12. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/vendor.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@socketsecurity/cli@1.1.176/dist/vendor.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8: var os$3 = require('node:os');
L9: var require$$2$4 = require('node:https');
L10: var require$$1$7 = require('node:http');
...
L32: var node_buffer = require$$0$b;
L33: var childProcess = require('node:child_process');
L34: var require$$1$a = require('node:path/win32');
...
L46: var require$$12$1 = require$$6$4;
L47: var require$$0$o = require('node:dns');
L48: var require$$0$p = require('node:net');
...
L941: var _a$1, _b$1, _c$1;
L942: const minNodeVersion$1 = process && process.env && process.env.YARGS_MIN_NODE_VERSION ? Number(process.env.YARGS_MIN_NODE_VERSION) : 12;
L943: const nodeVersion$1 = (_b$1 = (_a$1 = process === null || process === void 0 ? void 0 : process.versions) === null || _a$1 === void 0 ? void 0 : _a$1.node) !== null && _b$1 !== voi...
```

### 13. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@socketsecurity/cli@1.1.176/dist/cli.js>)

Source spawns a local helper that also contains network and dynamic execution context; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Cross-file remote execution chain: dist/cli.js spawns dist/vendor.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L22: var bin = require('../external/@socketsecurity/registry/lib/bin');
L23: var childProcess = require('node:child_process');
L24: var fs$2 = require('../external/@socketsecurity/registry/lib/fs');
...
L84: if (!result.ok) {
L85: process.exitCode = result.code ?? 1;
L86: }
...
L186: titles: Object.keys(data.top_five_alert_types),
L187: data: Object.values(data.top_five_alert_types)
L188: });
...
L1078: const {
L1079: cwd = process.cwd(),
L1080: defaultBranch,
```

### 14. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/vendor.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@socketsecurity/cli@1.1.176/dist/vendor.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: manifest.exports -> dist/cli.js -> dist/vendor.js
L8: var os$3 = require('node:os');
L9: var require$$2$4 = require('node:https');
L10: var require$$1$7 = require('node:http');
...
L32: var node_buffer = require$$0$b;
L33: var childProcess = require('node:child_process');
L34: var require$$1$a = require('node:path/win32');
...
L46: var require$$12$1 = require$$6$4;
L47: var require$$0$o = require('node:dns');
L48: var require$$0$p = require('node:net');
...
L941: var _a$1, _b$1, _c$1;
L942: const minNodeVersion$1 = process && process.env && process.env.YARGS_MIN_NODE_VERSION ? Number(process.env.YARGS_MIN_NODE_VERSION) : 12;
L943: const nodeVersion$1 = (_b$1 = (_a$1 = process === null || process === void 0 ? void 0 : process.versions) === null || _a$1 === void 0 ?
```

### 15. High: Trigger Reachable Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/vendor.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@socketsecurity/cli@1.1.176/dist/vendor.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable credential exfiltration chain: manifest.exports -> dist/cli.js -> dist/vendor.js
L8: var os$3 = require('node:os');
L9: var require$$2$4 = require('node:https');
L10: var require$$1$7 = require('node:http');
...
L32: var node_buffer = require$$0$b;
L33: var childProcess = require('node:child_process');
L34: var require$$1$a = require('node:path/win32');
...
L46: var require$$12$1 = require$$6$4;
L47: var require$$0$o = require('node:dns');
L48: var require$$0$p = require('node:net');
...
L941: var _a$1, _b$1, _c$1;
L942: const minNodeVersion$1 = process && process.env && process.env.YARGS_MIN_NODE_VERSION ? Number(process.env.YARGS_MIN_NODE_VERSION) : 12;
L943: const nodeVersion$1 = (_b$1 = (_a$1 = process === null || process === void 0 ? void 0 : process.versions) === nu
```

### 16. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@socketsecurity/cli@1.1.176/dist/cli.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable persistence chain: manifest.exports -> dist/cli.js
L22: var bin = require('../external/@socketsecurity/registry/lib/bin');
L23: var childProcess = require('node:child_process');
L24: var fs$2 = require('../external/@socketsecurity/registry/lib/fs');
...
L84: if (!result.ok) {
L85: process.exitCode = result.code ?? 1;
L86: }
...
L186: titles: Object.keys(data.top_five_alert_types),
L187: data: Object.values(data.top_five_alert_types)
L188: });
...
L1078: const {
L1079: cwd = process.cwd(),
L1080: defaultBranch,
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 19. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/socket-completion.bash
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@socketsecurity/cli@1.1.176/dist/socket-completion.bash>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = dist/socket-completion.bash
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 8951
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 20. Medium: Ships Compressed Blob
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/manifest-scripts/maven-extension/coana-maven-extension.jar
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@socketsecurity/cli@1.1.176/dist/manifest-scripts/maven-extension/coana-maven-extension.jar>)

Package ships compressed or archive-like blobs.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dist/manifest-scripts/maven-extension/coana-maven-extension.jar
kind = compressed_blob
sizeBytes = 26510
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 21. High: Ships High Entropy Blob
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/manifest-scripts/maven-extension/coana-maven-extension.jar
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@socketsecurity/cli@1.1.176/dist/manifest-scripts/maven-extension/coana-maven-extension.jar>)

Package ships high-entropy non-source blobs.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dist/manifest-scripts/maven-extension/coana-maven-extension.jar
kind = high_entropy_blob
sizeBytes = 26510
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 22. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/vendor.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@socketsecurity/cli@1.1.176/dist/vendor.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/vendor.js
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 6912520
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 23. Low: Nested Archive Needs Inspection
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/manifest-scripts/maven-extension/coana-maven-extension.jar
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@socketsecurity/cli@1.1.176/dist/manifest-scripts/maven-extension/coana-maven-extension.jar>)

Package ships a nested archive or MCP bundle that was inventoried but not recursively analyzed.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dist/manifest-scripts/maven-extension/coana-maven-extension.jar
kind = nested_archive_needs_inspection
sizeBytes = 26510
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 24. 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.

### 25. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/vendor.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@socketsecurity/cli@1.1.176/dist/vendor.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_path_work_budget_exceeded; limitedFiles = 13
```

### 26. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@socketsecurity/cli@1.1.176/dist/cli.js>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = @socketsecurity/cli@1.1.171
matchedIdentity = npm:QHNvY2tldHNlY3VyaXR5L2NsaQ:1.1.171
similarity = 0.958
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 2
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 104
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 2

### Published dependency entries
- @socketsecurity/socket-patch 2.0.0 (Dependency)
- form-data 4.0.6 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @socketsecurity/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.1.176
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-17T12:47:00.043Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-09T19:33:40.787Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-29T15:03:53.396Z
- **Known versions:** 36
- **Latest version:** 1.12.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** CLI for Socket.dev
- **Author:** Socket Inc
- **Maintainers:** socket-bot, feross
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18.20.8, pnpm: \>=10.33.0
- **Artifact files:** 1011
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 23,013,773 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@socketsecurity/cli/v/1.1.176>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/SocketDev/socket-cli>)