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@socketsecurity/cli@1.1.178
CLI for Socket.dev
AI Security Review
scanned 1mo ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe inspected source shows a user-invoked CLI and ordinary bundled support libraries, not an install hook, credential theft path, or payload execution chain. No concrete malicious behavior was established.
Static reason
High-risk behavior combination matched malicious policy.
Trigger
The executable behavior starts only when the user invokes the CLI.
Impact
No confirmed malicious impact or unconsented persistence was established.
Mechanism
The launcher forwards command-line arguments to the packaged CLI; no install-time execution was found.
AI rationale
The inspected source shows a user-invoked CLI and ordinary bundled support libraries, not an install hook, credential theft path, or payload execution chain. No concrete malicious behavior was established.
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 84.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The manifest exposes a CLI and its listed scripts are development build and test tasks, with no install lifecycle hook shown.
- The launcher starts the packaged CLI with the user-supplied arguments and inherited standard streams.
- The terminal helper generates functions only for terminal capability formatting.
- The bundled process helper invokes an explicit command, argument array, and options object.
- The vendor HTTP wrapper sends only its supplied request options.
- The packaged Maven archive contains a standard manifest entry.
Evidence against
- The CLI includes normal telemetry and update-check calls during an explicit CLI invocation.
- Bundled dependencies contain child-process, dynamic-function, and HTTP primitives.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsEvalFilesystemNativeBindingsNetworkShell
Source & flagged code
17 flaggedbin/cli.jsView file
19L20: const spawnPromise = spawn(
L21: constants.execPath,
High
external/blessed/lib/tput.jsView file
1152if (this.options.stringify && code.indexOf('return ') === 0) {
L1153: return new Function('', code)();
L1154: }
High
Eval
Package source references dynamic code evaluation.
external/blessed/lib/tput.jsView on unpkg · L1152bin/npm-cli.jsView file
4void (async () => {
L5: const Module = require('node:module')
L6: const path = require('node:path')
Findings
2 Critical9 High8 Medium6 Low
CriticalCredential Exfiltrationexternal/@socketsecurity/registry/external/libnpmpack.js
CriticalTrigger Reachable Dangerous Capabilitydist/vendor.js
HighChild Processbin/cli.js
HighShell
HighEvalexternal/blessed/lib/tput.js
HighCommand Output Exfiltrationdist/vendor.js
HighCross File Remote Execution Contextdist/cli.js
HighTrigger Reachable Credential Exfiltrationdist/vendor.js
HighTrigger Reachable Persistencedist/cli.js
HighShips High Entropy Blobdist/manifest-scripts/maven-extension/coana-maven-extension.jar
HighSemantic Analysis Limiteddist/vendor.js
Medium
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to @socketsecurity/cli@1.1.178.
See all versions of @socketsecurity/cli for other recorded verdicts.
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- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
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