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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@uipath/traces-tool/v/1.199.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@uipath/traces-tool/v/1.199.0.md"
package: "@uipath/traces-tool"
report_status: "published"
title: "@uipath/traces-tool@1.199.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "1.199.0"
---

# @uipath/traces-tool@1.199.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Passed — safe to install** — No malicious behavior detected. 10 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:** 1.199.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

No confirmed malicious attack surface. The CLI performs authenticated, user-invoked UiPath trace/feedback requests and bundled telemetry.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-11T09:54:08.916Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-11T09:54:59.476Z
- **Download time:** 751 ms
- **Static scan time:** 4193 ms
- **AI review time:** 45616 ms
- **Total time:** 50560 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** No confirmed malicious attack surface. The CLI performs authenticated, user-invoked UiPath trace/feedback requests and bundled telemetry.

- **Trigger:** Running the traces-tool CLI or invoking its exported command registration.

- **Impact:** Expected access to the user's configured UiPath tenant; no unconsented install-time execution or foreign control-surface modification found.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/index.js, dist/tool.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-11T09:54:59.476Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Authenticated UiPath API client with telemetry and local auth refresh support.

- **Rationale:** Static hints arise from bundled cross-platform CLI/auth dependencies and UiPath telemetry. Source inspection found no lifecycle execution, remote payload execution, credential exfiltration to an unrelated endpoint, or package overwrite behavior.

- **Files touched:** .uipath/.auth, .uipath/.auth.refresh-state

- **Network endpoints:** https://cloud.uipath.com, https://alpha.uipath.com/uipattycyrhx/abizon\_1/orchestrator\_, https://westeurope-5.in.applicationinsights.azure.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** dist/tool.js decodes an Application Insights telemetry connection string., dist/tool.js reads UiPath auth state and sends Bearer tokens to the configured UiPath API., dist/tool.js contains bundled child-process and filesystem helpers.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no preinstall, install, postinstall, or other lifecycle script., dist/index.js only registers and parses the explicit CLI commands., Trace and feedback requests require an authenticated user-invoked command., No code overwrites installed packages, loads remote code, or mutates AI-agent configuration., Observed filesystem writes support UiPath credential refresh state, not foreign-package mutation.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@uipath/traces-tool@1.199.0/dist/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L756: var EventEmitter = __require("node:events").EventEmitter;
L757: var childProcess = __require("node:child_process");
L758: var path = __require("node:path");
```

### 2. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/tool.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@uipath/traces-tool@1.199.0/dist/tool.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L110: 
L111: // ../../node_modules/powershell-utils/index.js
L112: import process3 from "node:process";
```

### 3. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 6. High: Entrypoint Foreign Package Code Overwrite
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/tool.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@uipath/traces-tool@1.199.0/dist/tool.js>)

Manifest-reachable source overwrites another installed package with package-defined remote behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source resolves another installed package, overwrites its runtime code, and injects package-defined remote behavior.
dist/tool.js:
// ../../node_modules/is-inside-container/node_modules/is-docker/index.js
// ../../node_modules/is-inside-container/index.js
// ../../node_modules/wsl-utils/node_modules/is-wsl/index.js
// ../../node_modules/powershell-utils/index.js
// ../../node_modules/wsl-utils/utilities.js
// ../../node_modules/wsl-utils/index.js
// ../../node_modules/open/node_modules/define-lazy-prop/index.js
// ../../node_modules/default-browser-id/index.js
```

### 7. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@uipath/traces-tool@1.199.0/dist/index.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/index.js spawns dist/tool.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L38: class CommanderError extends Error {
L39: constructor(exitCode, code, message) {
L40: super(message);
...
L756: var EventEmitter = __require("node:events").EventEmitter;
L757: var childProcess = __require("node:child_process");
L758: var path = __require("node:path");
...
L802: this._outputConfiguration = {
L803: writeOut: (str) => process2.stdout.write(str),
L804: writeErr: (str) => process2.stderr.write(str),
```

### 8. High: Base64 Obscured Url
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/tool.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@uipath/traces-tool@1.199.0/dist/tool.js>)

Source decodes a Base64-obscured HTTP endpoint at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L27802: var telemetryInstanceSlot = singleton("TelemetryService");
L27803: var DEFAULT_AI_CONNECTION_STRING = atob("[redacted]...
L27804: function getGlobalTelemetryInstance() {
```

### 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.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @uipath/traces-tool
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.199.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-11T04:22:21.866Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-11T09:54:59.476Z
- **Known versions:** 3
- **Latest version:** 1.199.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Query execution traces for UiPath jobs
- **Maintainers:** qbrandon, mihhdu, toxik, sergiunet, vasyop, vnaren23, chibionos, ady\_mc, cristiancalina, ruud.andriessen, danboanta, andbalase
- **Keywords:** cli-tool
- **Artifact files:** 3
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,425,741 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@uipath/traces-tool/v/1.199.0>)
