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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/apiblaze/v/0.20.9"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/apiblaze/v/0.20.9.md"
package: "apiblaze"
report_status: "published"
title: "apiblaze@0.20.9 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.20.9"
---

# apiblaze@0.20.9 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 15 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:** 0.20.9
- **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 implement a disclosed, user-invoked API proxy sidecar rather than hidden execution or install-time compromise. No concrete credential harvesting, foreign control-surface mutation, or covert exfiltration chain was found.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-19T08:53:08.550Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-19T08:54:47.517Z
- **Download time:** 260 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1945 ms
- **AI review time:** 96761 ms
- **Total time:** 98967 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 unconsented install-time attack is confirmed. An explicit sidecar setup can modify a selected Next.js project and report observed external origins.

- **Trigger:** User runs the apiblaze sidecar/init command and enables the sidecar with an API key.

- **Impact:** Approved external requests may be routed through APIblaze; observed origin metadata is reported to its sidecar service.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-19T08:54:47.517Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Opt-in fetch interception and APIblaze sidecar routing.

- **Rationale:** The flagged primitives implement a disclosed, user-invoked API proxy sidecar rather than hidden execution or install-time compromise. No concrete credential harvesting, foreign control-surface mutation, or covert exfiltration chain was found.

- **Files touched:** .env.local, .gitignore, instrumentation.ts, src/instrumentation.ts

- **Network endpoints:** https://sidecar.abz.run/routes, https://sidecar.abz.run/observed

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** Explicit sidecar setup writes project configuration and instrumentation., The sidecar can report observed HTTPS origins using its configured API key.

- **Evidence against:** No install, preinstall, or postinstall lifecycle hook; only prepublishOnly is present., Sidecar activation requires a token and can be disabled; local/private hosts are excluded., Routing occurs only for server-provided approved origins, otherwise requests stay direct., Credential files are written locally with mode 0600.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to apiblaze@0.20.9.

- Review the evidence and your use of apiblaze@0.20.9 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:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/apiblaze@0.20.9/dist/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L946: function openBrowser(url) {
L947: const { exec } = require("child_process");
L948: const cmd = process.platform === "darwin" ? `open "${url}"` : process.platform === "win32" ? `start "" "${url}"` : `xdg-open "${url}"`;
```

### 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: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/apiblaze@0.20.9/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L944: init_team();
L945: var DASHBOARD_BASE2 = process.env.APIBLAZE_DASHBOARD_BASE || "https://dashboard.apiblaze.com";
L946: function openBrowser(url) {
L947: const { exec } = require("child_process");
L948: const cmd = process.platform === "darwin" ? `open "${url}"` : process.platform === "win32" ? `start "" "${url}"` : `xdg-open "${url}"`;
```

### 8. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/apiblaze@0.20.9/dist/index.js>)

Source appears to send environment or credential material to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L77: const raw = fs.readFileSync(CREDENTIALS_PATH, "utf-8");
L78: return JSON.parse(raw);
L79: } catch {
...
L102: path = __toESM(require("path"));
L103: APIBLAZE_DIR = path.join(os.homedir(), ".apiblaze");
L104: CREDENTIALS_PATH = path.join(APIBLAZE_DIR, "credentials.json");
...
L123: async function createProxyAnonymous(body) {
L124: const res = await fetch(`${PUBLIC_API_BASE}/proxy`, {
L125: method: "POST",
L126: headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
L127: body: JSON.stringify(body)
L128: });
```

### 9. High: Entrypoint Foreign Package Code Overwrite
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/apiblaze@0.20.9/dist/index.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/index.js:
fs.writeFileSync(CREDENTIALS_PATH, JSON.stringify(creds, null, 2), "utf-8");
DASHBOARD_BASE = process.env.APIBLAZE_DASHBOARD_BASE || "https://dashboard.apiblaze.com";
PUBLIC_API_BASE = "https://api.apiblaze.com";
fs2.writeFileSync(FILE, JSON.stringify(merged, null, 2), { mode: 384 });
CP_EDGE = process.env.APIBLAZE_API_BASE ? `${process.env.APIBLAZE_API_BASE}/1.0.0/prod` : "https://api.apiblaze.com/1.0.0/prod";
import_chalk6.default.dim("The same thing on the official API \u2014 copy/paste with your control-plane key\n(get one from the Developers section of dashboard.apiblaze.com, then\n`...
const url = `https://api.apiblaze.com/${CONTROL_AP
```

### 10. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/apiblaze@0.20.9/dist/index.js>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L77: const raw = fs.readFileSync(CREDENTIALS_PATH, "utf-8");
L78: return JSON.parse(raw);
L79: } catch {
...
L102: path = __toESM(require("path"));
L103: APIBLAZE_DIR = path.join(os.homedir(), ".apiblaze");
L104: CREDENTIALS_PATH = path.join(APIBLAZE_DIR, "credentials.json");
...
L123: async function createProxyAnonymous(body) {
L124: const res = await fetch(`${PUBLIC_API_BASE}/proxy`, {
L125: method: "POST",
L126: headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
L127: body: JSON.stringify(body)
L128: });
```

### 11. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/apiblaze@0.20.9/dist/index.js>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: manifest.main -> dist/index.js
L77: const raw = fs.readFileSync(CREDENTIALS_PATH, "utf-8");
L78: return JSON.parse(raw);
L79: } catch {
...
L102: path = __toESM(require("path"));
L103: APIBLAZE_DIR = path.join(os.homedir(), ".apiblaze");
L104: CREDENTIALS_PATH = path.join(APIBLAZE_DIR, "credentials.json");
...
L123: async function createProxyAnonymous(body) {
L124: const res = await fetch(`${PUBLIC_API_BASE}/proxy`, {
L125: method: "POST",
L126: headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
L127: body: JSON.stringify(body)
L128: });
```

### 12. High: Trigger Reachable Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/apiblaze@0.20.9/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable credential exfiltration chain: manifest.main -> dist/index.js
L77: const raw = fs.readFileSync(CREDENTIALS_PATH, "utf-8");
L78: return JSON.parse(raw);
L79: } catch {
...
L102: path = __toESM(require("path"));
L103: APIBLAZE_DIR = path.join(os.homedir(), ".apiblaze");
L104: CREDENTIALS_PATH = path.join(APIBLAZE_DIR, "credentials.json");
...
L123: async function createProxyAnonymous(body) {
L124: const res = await fetch(`${PUBLIC_API_BASE}/proxy`, {
L125: method: "POST",
L126: headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
L127: body: JSON.stringify(body)
L128: });
```

### 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.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 6
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 1
- **Development dependencies:** 6
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 7

### Published dependency entries
- chalk ^4.1.2 (Dependency)
- commander ^11.1.0 (Dependency)
- inquirer ^8.2.6 (Dependency)
- ora ^5.4.1 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.17.0 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.9.0 (Dependency)
- react \>=17 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** apiblaze
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.20.9
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-19T06:37:02.728Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T22:55:19.471Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T07:16:37.243Z
- **Known versions:** 72
- **Latest version:** 0.21.69
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** APIblaze CLI — Chat with your APIs, Manage your API keys, users and groups with the APIblaze serverless proxy
- **Author:** APIblaze
- **Maintainers:** julien\_apiblaze
- **Keywords:** apiblaze, dev-tunnel, cloudflared, api, proxy, sidecar, nextjs, egress
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 15
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 712,422 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/apiblaze/v/0.20.9>)
