---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sortlist/cli/v/0.40.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sortlist/cli/v/0.40.0.md"
package: "@sortlist/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@sortlist/cli@0.40.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.40.0"
---

# @sortlist/cli@0.40.0 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:** 0.40.0
- **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 proves conditional forwarding of saved service credentials to an unrestricted endpoint, warranting a warning under the credential-forwarding policy. The lifecycle and child-process findings do not establish a malicious installation chain.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 96.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-05T12:41:47.018Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-05T12:43:14.494Z
- **Download time:** 260 ms
- **Static scan time:** 157 ms
- **AI review time:** 87058 ms
- **Total time:** 87476 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:** Saved Sortlist access tokens can be forwarded to an unrestricted operator-selected endpoint. This establishes conditional credential exposure, but no covert attack was identified.

- **Trigger:** Run the CLI with saved credentials and an unrelated --endpoint or SL\_ENDPOINT destination when schema introspection requires a request.

- **Impact:** The selected destination can receive and potentially reuse the saved access token.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-05T12:43:14.494Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Startup reads the saved access token and attaches it to an introspection POST without validating the endpoint against the credential's intended service.

- **Rationale:** Source proves conditional forwarding of saved service credentials to an unrestricted endpoint, warranting a warning under the credential-forwarding policy. The lifecycle and child-process findings do not establish a malicious installation chain.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 96.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The manifest has a prepare hook for Git hook configuration; the launcher runs the bundled CLI through Node., The runtime reads saved credentials and selects their access token for schema introspection., Endpoint selection accepts a command-line override or SL\_ENDPOINT without restricting the destination., Schema introspection sends the saved token as a Bearer authorization header to the selected endpoint., CLI startup invokes schema introspection using the endpoint override, exposing credentials conditionally when an unrelated destination is selected.

- **Evidence against:** Default federation endpoints belong to Sortlist; no hidden unrelated credential recipient was identified., Child processes support local CLI execution, browser opening, and updates of the same npm package., No preinstall, install, or postinstall hook or runtime self-dependency was found.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @sortlist/cli@0.40.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @sortlist/cli@0.40.0 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@0.40.0/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@0.40.0/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:** 96.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sortlist/cli@0.40.0/package.json>)

The manifest has a prepare hook for Git hook configuration; the launcher runs the bundled CLI through Node.

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",
    "@sentry/n
```

## 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:** 0.40.0
- **Version published:** 2026-09-17T13:31:54.185Z
- **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:** 564,609 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sortlist/cli/v/0.40.0>)