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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sortlist/cli/v/0.51.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sortlist/cli/v/0.51.0.md"
package: "@sortlist/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@sortlist/cli@0.51.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.51.0"
---

# @sortlist/cli@0.51.0 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:** Telemetry warning (can be blocked)
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Telemetry
- **Selected version:** 0.51.0
- **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.

The package’s authentication flow appears directed to its configured Sortlist service, but the published CLI also sends runtime error context, including a configured endpoint, to Sentry without an evident opt-out. This is undisclosed identifying telemetry, so the package is suspicious rather than malicious.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-01T17:45:38.636Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-01T17:46:15.418Z
- **Download time:** 260 ms
- **Static scan time:** 189 ms
- **AI review time:** 36332 ms
- **Total time:** 36782 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:** Undisclosed runtime error telemetry can send a configured API endpoint and operation context to Sentry.

- **Trigger:** Running the published CLI; endpoint and operation context are attached during GraphQL requests, and errors trigger reporting.

- **Impact:** May disclose a private or internal API hostname and the operation being attempted to the package vendor’s telemetry service.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-01T17:46:15.418Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Sentry captures exceptions with endpoint and operation details, then the CLI flushes events to its fixed Sentry collector.

- **Rationale:** The package’s authentication flow appears directed to its configured Sortlist service, but the published CLI also sends runtime error context, including a configured endpoint, to Sentry without an evident opt-out. This is undisclosed identifying telemetry, so the package is suspicious rather than malicious.

- **Network endpoints:** o27611.ingest.us.sentry.io

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The published build initializes Sentry with a fixed collector; only local development skips initialization., Network errors are reported to Sentry with the configured API endpoint and operation name as context., The CLI captures command exceptions and flushes Sentry after command handling., Client credentials are posted to the configured token endpoint for Sortlist authentication.

- **Evidence against:** The package presents itself as a Sortlist platform CLI, and its GraphQL and OAuth requests use Sortlist endpoints by default., The Sentry code reports errors rather than showing automatic collection of credentials or file contents.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @sortlist/cli@0.51.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @sortlist/cli@0.51.0 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@0.51.0/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. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 5. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 6. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** bin/sl.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sortlist/cli@0.51.0/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'))) {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 11. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sortlist/cli@0.51.0/dist/index.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 = @sortlist/cli@0.42.0
matchedIdentity = npm:QHNvcnRsaXN0L2NsaQ:0.42.0
similarity = 0.500
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

### 12. Medium: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sortlist/cli@0.51.0/dist/index.js>)

The published build initializes Sentry with a fixed collector; only local development skips initialization.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
function initSentry() {
  if (isLocalDev) {
    return;
  }
  Sentry.init({
    dsn: SENTRY_DSN,
    environment: SENTRY_ENVIRONMENT,
    release: `${pkg.name}@${pkg.version}`,
    tracesSampleRate: 0,
    maxBreadcrumbs: 50,
    attachStacktrace: tr
```

## 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:** 0.51.0
- **Version published:** 2026-10-26T10:19:07.450Z
- **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:** 776,586 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sortlist/cli/v/0.51.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/sortlist/cli>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/sortlist/cli#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/sortlist/cli/issues>)
