---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@socketsecurity/cli/v/1.8.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@socketsecurity/cli/v/1.8.2.md"
package: "@socketsecurity/cli"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "@socketsecurity/cli@1.8.2 npm security report"
verdict: "manual_review"
version: "1.8.2"
---

# @socketsecurity/cli@1.8.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 26 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:** 1.8.2
- **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: manual review; recommendation: manual review. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The inspected credential-transfer finding is consistent with vendored npm registry tooling, and no concrete attack was established. The CLI can invoke a bundled executable Maven extension whose class behavior remains unresolved, so manual review is warranted.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Manual Review
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 89.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-13T14:41:26.439Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-13T14:50:20.697Z
- **Download time:** 1773 ms
- **Static scan time:** 32447 ms
- **AI review time:** 500037 ms
- **Total time:** 534258 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 confirmed. A bundled Maven extension is executable during a user-triggered manifest scan, but its class behavior remains unresolved.

- **Trigger:** A user invokes a Maven manifest scan through the CLI.

- **Impact:** The extension’s effects during that scan cannot be determined from the inspected source and archive analysis.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/cli.js, .lpm-inspection-23fQNn/0-1028839f98da.txt

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-13T14:50:20.697Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The CLI places the bundled extension JAR on Maven’s classpath and runs the validate phase; inspected archive analysis lists executable classes but does not resolve their behavior.

- **Rationale:** The inspected credential-transfer finding is consistent with vendored npm registry tooling, and no concrete attack was established. The CLI can invoke a bundled executable Maven extension whose class behavior remains unresolved, so manual review is warranted.

- **Files touched:** dist/cli.js, dist/manifest-scripts/maven-extension/coana-maven-extension.jar

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Manual Review

- **Confidence:** 89.0%

- **Recommended action:** manual\_review

- **Intent class:** Unknown

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **AI review observations:** The CLI invokes a bundled Maven extension during a Maven manifest scan, adding the JAR to Maven’s classpath and running validate., The archive contains executable Java class files whose behavior the offline analysis could not resolve., No concrete attack was established in the inspected credential-handling code; its auth headers are part of the vendored npm registry client.

- **Evidence against:** The package maps its executable aliases to CLI entrypoints, and the launcher starts the bundled CLI., The flagged libnpmpack module is lazily loaded by package tooling, and its inspected code builds npm authorization headers.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @socketsecurity/cli@1.8.2.

- Review the evidence and your use of @socketsecurity/cli@1.8.2 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:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@socketsecurity/cli@1.8.2/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@1.8.2/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@1.8.2/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@1.8.2/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@1.8.2/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@1.8.2/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@1.8.2/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@1.8.2/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@1.8.2/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@1.8.2/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@1.8.2/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@1.8.2/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@1.8.2/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 = 27340
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@1.8.2/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 = 27340
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@1.8.2/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@1.8.2/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 = 27340
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@1.8.2/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 = 9
```

### 26. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/shadow-pnpm-bin2.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@socketsecurity/cli@1.8.2/dist/shadow-pnpm-bin2.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@1.8.0
matchedIdentity = npm:QHNvY2tldHNlY3VyaXR5L2NsaQ:1.8.0
similarity = 0.983
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:** 1.8.2
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-13T13:24:09.120Z
- **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:** 1015
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 23,092,806 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@socketsecurity/cli/v/1.8.2>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/SocketDev/socket-cli>)