---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sortlist/cli/v/0.38.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sortlist/cli/v/0.38.0.md"
package: "@sortlist/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@sortlist/cli@0.38.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.38.0"
---

# @sortlist/cli@0.38.0 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:** Credential Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 0.38.0
- **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.

Source confirms forwarding of an existing service credential to an unrestricted configured destination through the active launcher. No separate concrete attack evidence supports blocking publication.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 98.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-05T12:41:25.335Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-05T12:42:53.815Z
- **Download time:** 1014 ms
- **Static scan time:** 120 ms
- **AI review time:** 87345 ms
- **Total time:** 88480 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 configured destination can receive an existing Sortlist access token during CLI schema introspection. This establishes conditional credential exposure, without evidence of covert theft or malware intent.

- **Trigger:** Run sl with saved credentials and an endpoint override, SL\_ENDPOINT, or configured endpoint targeting another recipient, when schema introspection requires a network request.

- **Impact:** The selected endpoint can obtain the user's Sortlist access token.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-05T12:42:53.815Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The CLI loads the saved access token and attaches it to an HTTP request without restricting the selected destination.

- **Rationale:** Source confirms forwarding of an existing service credential to an unrestricted configured destination through the active launcher. No separate concrete attack evidence supports blocking publication.

- **Files touched:** .sortlist/credentials.json

- **Network endpoints:** https://federation.sortlist.com/graphql

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 98.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** The manifest has a prepare hook for Git hook setup; the launcher runs the bundled CLI., The CLI reads saved credentials and selects their access token for schema introspection., Endpoint overrides and SL\_ENDPOINT are accepted without destination validation., Schema introspection sends the saved token as a bearer credential to the selected endpoint., CLI startup passes --endpoint directly into schema introspection before parsing commands.

- **Evidence against:** The default federation endpoint belongs to Sortlist; no hidden unrelated credential recipient was identified., Child processes implement local CLI execution and same-package updates; no concrete malicious install chain was found.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @sortlist/cli@0.38.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @sortlist/cli@0.38.0 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: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

### 2. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/sl.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sortlist/cli@0.38.0/bin/sl.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import { execFileSync } from 'node:child_process';
L3: import { existsSync, readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
```

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

Package source references shell execution.

### 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: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** bin/sl.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sortlist/cli@0.38.0/bin/sl.mjs>)

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: bin/sl.mjs spawns dist/index.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import { execFileSync } from 'node:child_process';
L3: import { existsSync, readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
...
L6: 
L7: const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
L8: const selfRoot = resolve(__dirname, '..');
...
L11: * Walk upward from `start` looking for a @sortlist/cli checkout
L12: * (package.json with name === "@sortlist/cli" and no .published sentinel).
L13: * Returns the package root, or null.
...
L20: try {
L21: const pkg = JSON.parse(readFileSync(pkgPath, 'utf-8'));
L22: if (pkg.name === '@sortlist/cli' && !existsSync(resolve(dir, '.published'))) {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 11. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 12. Medium: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 98.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sortlist/cli@0.38.0/package.json>)

The manifest has a prepare hook for Git hook setup; the launcher runs the bundled CLI.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"prepare": "[ -n \"$CI\" ] && exit 0; command -v git >/dev/null 2>&1 && git config --unset core.hooksPath || true; command -v lefthook >/dev/null 2>&1 && lefthook install || true"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "@graphql-typed-document-node/core": "^3.2.0",
    "@se
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepare
- **Dependencies:** 4
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 21
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 4

### Published dependency entries
- @graphql-typed-document-node/core ^3.2.0 (Dependency)
- @sentry/node ^10.29.0 (Dependency)
- commander ^13.0.0 (Dependency)
- graphql ^16.13.2 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @sortlist/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.38.0
- **Version published:** 2026-08-27T13:27:12.398Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T06:42:48.902Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-01T17:46:44.208Z
- **Known versions:** 12
- **Latest version:** 0.53.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Sortlist platform CLI — GraphQL federation client
- **Maintainers:** nicmosc, charlesdg
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 6
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 494,825 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sortlist/cli/v/0.38.0>)