---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@velaro/cli/v/1.4.114"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@velaro/cli/v/1.4.114.md"
package: "@velaro/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@velaro/cli@1.4.114 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "1.4.114"
---

# @velaro/cli@1.4.114 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 18 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:** 1.4.114
- **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 install hook only prints a banner. The startup updater targets this package’s npm release and is disclosed with an opt-out; the flagged screenshot and staff-tool credential flows are tied to explicit commands and Velaro services.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-29T06:52:52.260Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-29T06:53:58.273Z
- **Download time:** 773 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1822 ms
- **AI review time:** 63416 ms
- **Total time:** 66013 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 attack was identified; network, credential, and process activity serves the CLI’s update and explicitly requested Velaro management features.

- **Trigger:** The postinstall hook prints a banner; the CLI checks for updates on startup; screenshot and update operations run through their named commands.

- **Impact:** The reviewed paths do not show unrelated credential disclosure or harmful automatic account or file actions.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-29T06:53:58.273Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The updater checks the package’s npm registry and may install @velaro/cli@latest. The screenshot command captures a requested staging page and uploads the image to the Velaro admin API.

- **Rationale:** The install hook only prints a banner. The startup updater targets this package’s npm release and is disclosed with an opt-out; the flagged screenshot and staff-tool credential flows are tied to explicit commands and Velaro services.

- **Network endpoints:** https://registry.npmjs.org/@velaro/cli/latest, https://help.velaro.com, https://admin-staging.velaro.com, https://messaging-staging.velaro.com, https://console-staging.velaro.com, https://velaro-eastus-stg-kv.vault.azure.net

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The postinstall hook prints a version banner and has no network request or other install-time action., The CLI checks the npm registry at most once per day and caches the result., A newer version can trigger a detached install of this same CLI for registry installs; the code provides a VELARO\_NO\_AUTO\_UPDATE opt-out and prints an update notice., The screenshot feature requires an explicit article ID, app, and route., The screenshot upload sends the selected image with the Velaro bearer token to the configured admin API or help.velaro.com.

- **Evidence against:** The CLI can automatically install its latest version after a startup check unless VELARO\_NO\_AUTO\_UPDATE or CI is set., The screenshot feature can retrieve staging test credentials from Azure Key Vault when credential environment variables are absent.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @velaro/cli@1.4.114.

- Review the evidence and your use of @velaro/cli@1.4.114 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@velaro/cli@1.4.114/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.js
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@velaro/cli@1.4.114/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.js
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** lib/kb-screenshot.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@velaro/cli@1.4.114/lib/kb-screenshot.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L19: import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
L20: import { execFile } from 'child_process';
L21: import { promisify } from 'util';
```

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

Package source references shell execution.

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 9. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** lib/kb-screenshot.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@velaro/cli@1.4.114/lib/kb-screenshot.js>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L19: import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
L20: import { execFile } from 'child_process';
L21: import { promisify } from 'util';
...
L33: const APP_URLS = {
L34: admin:       process.env.ADMIN_UI_URL       || 'https://admin-staging.velaro.com',
L35: messaging:   process.env.MSG_UI_URL         || 'https://messaging-staging.velaro.com',
```

### 10. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** lib/commands/update.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@velaro/cli@1.4.114/lib/commands/update.js>)

Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import { execSync }    from 'child_process';
L2: import { createRequire } from 'module';
...
L6: 
L7: const NPM_REGISTRY = 'https://registry.npmjs.org/@velaro/cli/latest';
L8: 
...
L12: handler:  async () => {
L13: process.stdout.write('Checking for updates... ');
L14:
```

### 11. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** lib/commands/update.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@velaro/cli@1.4.114/lib/commands/update.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches command-output exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable command-output exfiltration chain: manifest.bin -> bin/velaro.js -> lib/commands/update.js
L1: import { execSync }    from 'child_process';
L2: import { createRequire } from 'module';
...
L6: 
L7: const NPM_REGISTRY = 'https://registry.npmjs.org/@velaro/cli/latest';
L8: 
...
L12: handler:  async () => {
L13: process.stdout.write('Checking for updates... ');
L14:
```

### 12. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** lib/commands/update.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@velaro/cli@1.4.114/lib/commands/update.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L38: try {
L39: execSync('npm install -g @velaro/cli@latest', { stdio: 'inherit' });
L40: console.log('\nUpdated successfully. Run velaro --version to confirm.');
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 15. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

### 16. Medium: Remote Tarball Dependency
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@velaro/cli@1.4.114/package.json>)

Package manifest contains a dependency pinned to a remote tarball URL.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
Remote tarball dependency specs: xlsx@https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-0.20.3/xlsx-0.20.3.tgz
```

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 18. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** lib/deploy-state.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@velaro/cli@1.4.114/lib/deploy-state.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 4
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 5
- **Optional dependencies:** 2
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 1
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 7

### Published dependency entries
- @azure/identity ^4.4.1 (Dependency)
- @azure/keyvault-secrets ^4.9.0 (Dependency)
- mssql ^12.7.0 (Dependency)
- pdfkit ^0.20.2 (Dependency)
- yargs ^17.7.2 (Dependency)
- playwright ^1.43.1 (OptionalDependency)
- xlsx https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-0.20.3/xlsx-0.20.3.tgz (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @velaro/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.4.114
- **Version published:** 2026-10-28T00:49:25.799Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-05T02:13:45.933Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T13:01:15.284Z
- **Known versions:** 92
- **Latest version:** 1.4.155
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Velaro Workspace v20 — command-line interface for managing bots, knowledge base ingestion, MCP API keys, search indexes, and ops health.
- **Maintainers:** alexbloom
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 240
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 4,590,413 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@velaro/cli/v/1.4.114>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/velaro/velaro-admin>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/velaro/velaro-admin#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/velaro/velaro-admin/issues>)
