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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sortlist/cli/v/0.41.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sortlist/cli/v/0.41.0.md"
package: "@sortlist/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@sortlist/cli@0.41.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.41.0"
---

# @sortlist/cli@0.41.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 12 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.41.0
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The flagged primitives are consistent with the inspected GraphQL CLI, browser login, and same-package update behavior. No concrete malicious chain was established, and configurable authenticated API access alone does not warrant a warning.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-05T12:42:20.256Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-05T12:43:38.228Z
- **Download time:** 253 ms
- **Static scan time:** 134 ms
- **AI review time:** 77585 ms
- **Total time:** 77972 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 confirmed attack surface was identified. Inspected network, credential, and process operations support the Sortlist CLI and its updater.

- **Trigger:** Running sl activates API access, telemetry, and version checking; prepare performs Git hook setup.

- **Impact:** Normal CLI state and package updates occur; inspected source establishes no malicious harvesting, foreign agent mutation, or unrelated payload execution.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-05T12:43:38.228Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The launcher starts local package code; the runtime authenticates GraphQL requests and updates the same npm package.

- **Rationale:** The flagged primitives are consistent with the inspected GraphQL CLI, browser login, and same-package update behavior. No concrete malicious chain was established, and configurable authenticated API access alone does not warrant a warning.

- **Network endpoints:** https://federation.sortlist.com/graphql, https://hermes.production.sortlist.cloud/oauth/token, registry.npmjs.org

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** package.json has prepare-only Git hook setup, no registry install hooks, and no runtime self-dependency., bin/sl.mjs launches the package entrypoint with forwarded CLI arguments., dist/index.js defaults to the Sortlist federation service and uses bearer authentication for API requests., Schema introspection uses the CLI's saved credentials and selected API endpoint as part of its configurable GraphQL client., The runtime updater installs the same package and removes its own stale npm directories., Saved credentials use owner-only file permissions.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @sortlist/cli@0.41.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @sortlist/cli@0.41.0 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@0.41.0/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@0.41.0/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. Low: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sortlist/cli@0.41.0/package.json>)

package.json has prepare-only Git hook setup, no registry install hooks, and no runtime self-dependency.

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/node": "^10.2
```

## 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:** 0.41.0
- **Version published:** 2026-09-17T14:21:43.970Z
- **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:** 566,005 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sortlist/cli/v/0.41.0>)