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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@xylex-group/athena/v/5.3.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@xylex-group/athena/v/5.3.0.md"
package: "@xylex-group/athena"
report_status: "published"
title: "@xylex-group/athena@5.3.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "5.3.0"
---

# @xylex-group/athena@5.3.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 15 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 5.3.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

Static analysis flagged 15 finding(s) at 72.0% confidence. This version is warn-only unless an AI or security-team review confirms malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-23T10:57:11.104Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-23T10:58:08.997Z
- **Download time:** 1265 ms
- **Static scan time:** 56625 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 57893 ms

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Public findings

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/next/client.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@xylex-group/athena@5.3.0/dist/next/client.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L19450: error: "invalid_query",
L19451: message: "multi-statement query requires D1 batch() or exec() support",
L19452: ok: false
```

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

Package source references shell execution.

### 4. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** dist/next/server.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@xylex-group/athena@5.3.0/dist/next/server.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4818: async function loadNobleArgon2() {
L4819: const importer = new Function(
L4820: "specifier",
```

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/athena-js.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@xylex-group/athena@5.3.0/bin/athena-js.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L107: const cliEntrypointUrl = pathToFileURL(cliEntrypointPath).href;
L108: const cliModule = await import(cliEntrypointUrl);
L109: if (typeof cliModule.runCLI !== "function") {
```

### 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: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@xylex-group/athena@5.3.0/dist/index.js>)

Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration.
dist/index.js:
import { mkdir, writeFile, readFile, readdir, stat, rm } from 'fs/promises';
function isDynamicBaseURLConfig(baseURL) {
return typeof baseURL === "object" && baseURL !== null && "allowedHosts" in baseURL && Array.isArray(baseURL.allowedHosts);
const baseURLString = typeof options.baseURL === "string" ? options.baseURL : void 0;
const dynamicProtocol = typeof options.baseURL === "object" && options.baseURL !== null ? options.baseURL.protocol : void 0;
const secure = options.advanced?.useSecureCookies === void 0 ? dynamicProtocol === "https" ? true : dynamicProtocol === "http" ? false : baseURLString ? baseURLString.starts
```

### 10. High: Entrypoint Foreign Package Code Overwrite
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/next/server.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@xylex-group/athena@5.3.0/dist/next/server.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/next/server.js:
import { stat, rm, readFile, readdir, mkdir, writeFile } from 'fs/promises';
var DEFAULT_ATHENA_AUTH_ORIGIN = "https://auth.athena-auth.com";
return trimmed.startsWith("http://") || trimmed.startsWith("https://");
if (trimmed === "http://" || trimmed === "https://" || trimmed.startsWith("undefined/") || trimmed.startsWith("null/")) {
const message = 'Deprecated interpretation: auth.url is being treated as auth.upstreamUrl under same-origin routing. Use auth: { routing: "same-origin", upstreamUrl: "https://auth....
'createAthenaAuthProxyHandlers({ client }) needs a proxy upstream on the client. Configure auth: { routing: "same-origin",
```

### 11. High: Cloud Metadata Access
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/next/server.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@xylex-group/athena@5.3.0/dist/next/server.js>)

Source reaches cloud instance metadata or link-local credential endpoints.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: import { generateRegistrationOptions, generateAuthenticationOptions, verifyRegistrationResponse, verifyAuthenticationResponse } from '@simplewebauthn/server';
L4: import { isoBase64URL, decodeClientDataJSON, decodeAttestationObject, parseAuthenticatorData } from '@simplewebauthn/server/helpers';
L5: import { generateKeyPair, exportJWK, SignJWT } from 'jose';
...
L1569: }
L1570: function collectEnvAppOrigins(env = process.env) {
L1571: const origins = [];
...
L1832: 
L1833: // package.json
L1834: var package_default = {
...
L2047: var ATHENA_AUTH_PATH = "/api/auth";
L2048: var LOCAL_DEV_ORIGIN = "http://localhost:3000";
L2049: var DEFAULT_ATHENA_AUTH_ORIGIN = "https://auth.athena-auth.com";
```

### 12. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@xylex-group/athena@5.3.0/dist/cli/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/cli/index.js spawns dist/next/server.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L7: import { generateRegistrationOptions, generateAuthenticationOptions, verifyRegistrationResponse, verifyAuthenticationResponse } from '@simplewebauthn/server';
L8: import { isoBase64URL, decodeClientDataJSON, decodeAttestationObject, parseAuthenticatorData } from '@simplewebauthn/server/helpers';
L9: import { generateKeyPair, exportJWK, SignJWT } from 'jose';
L10: import { parse as parse$1 } from 'pgsql-parser';
L11: import { spawnSync } from 'child_process';
L12: 
...
L87: 
L88: // package.json
L89: var package_default;
...
L336: type: "git",
L337: url: "git+https://github.com/xylex-group/athena.git",
L338: directory: "packages/athena-js"
```

### 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:** 95.0%

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

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

- **Dependencies:** 12
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 4
- **Development dependencies:** 23
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 16

### Published dependency entries
- @clack/prompts ^0.11.0 (Dependency)
- @noble/hashes ^1.8.0 (Dependency)
- @simplewebauthn/server ^13.3.2 (Dependency)
- blessed ^0.1.81 (Dependency)
- chalk ^4.1.2 (Dependency)
- cron-parser ^4.9.0 (Dependency)
- jose ^6.2.3 (Dependency)
- pg ^8.20.0 (Dependency)
- pgsql-parser ^18.2.6 (Dependency)
- server-only ^0.0.1 (Dependency)
- use-sync-external-store ^1.6.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.4.3 (Dependency)
- @react-email/components \>=1.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- @react-email/render \>=2.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- pg \>=8.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- react \>=17.0.0 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @xylex-group/athena
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 5.3.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-23T10:51:53.828Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-18T10:27:46.472Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-31T22:46:58.113Z
- **Known versions:** 13
- **Latest version:** 5.5.4
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Athena JS SDK
- **Author:** floris@xylex.group
- **Maintainers:** floris\_xlx
- **Keywords:** database, driver, api-gateway, sdk, react, hooks, http, postgres, query-builder
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 222
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 86,281,898 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@xylex-group/athena/v/5.3.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/xylex-group/athena>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/xylex-group/athena/tree/main/packages/athena-js#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/xylex-group/athena/issues>)