---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/base44/v/0.1.16"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/base44/v/0.1.16.md"
package: "base44"
report_status: "published"
title: "base44@0.1.16 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.1.16"
---

# base44@0.1.16 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 12 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:** 0.1.16
- **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 manifest provides a user-invoked CLI entrypoint without an npm install lifecycle hook, and the inspected runtime and telemetry behavior are consistent with that purpose. Telemetry includes user-linked error context but targets the named PostHog service and has an environment-variable opt-out; no concrete malicious chain was found.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 87.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-08T21:17:34.689Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-08T21:18:23.529Z
- **Download time:** 504 ms
- **Static scan time:** 76 ms
- **AI review time:** 48259 ms
- **Total time:** 48840 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 malicious attack surface was identified in the inspected CLI and runtime behavior. The CLI includes opt-out error telemetry to PostHog, and the local runtime imports the function selected by its caller.

- **Trigger:** A user invokes the base44 CLI; telemetry is activated when an error is captured unless disabled.

- **Impact:** Telemetry can disclose error and command context to the configured-in-source analytics service. No unrelated credential recipient or install-time mutation was identified.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-08T21:18:23.529Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The bundled CLI sends error context to us.i.posthog.com, using the user's email when available; the runtime loads the function named by FUNCTION\_PATH.

- **Rationale:** The manifest provides a user-invoked CLI entrypoint without an npm install lifecycle hook, and the inspected runtime and telemetry behavior are consistent with that purpose. Telemetry includes user-linked error context but targets the named PostHog service and has an environment-variable opt-out; no concrete malicious chain was found.

- **Network endpoints:** https://us.i.posthog.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 87.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** package.json defines a CLI entrypoint and has no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook; its remote tarball dependency is @deno/loader., bin/run.js invokes the bundled CLI when the user runs the command., CLI telemetry is disabled by BASE44\_DISABLE\_TELEMETRY=1 and targets us.i.posthog.com., Error telemetry may use the authenticated user's email as its distinct ID., The backend wrapper dynamically imports the function path supplied through FUNCTION\_PATH.

- **Evidence against:** Inspected behavior is consistent with an application-management CLI: telemetry is sent to a named analytics service and local runtime imports a caller-selected function., No inspected source showed an install-time attack, credential forwarding to an unrelated recipient, or a malicious payload chain.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to base44@0.1.16.

- Review the evidence and your use of base44@0.1.16 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: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/assets/backend-runtime/main.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/base44@0.1.16/dist/assets/backend-runtime/main.ts>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L148: try {
L149: functionModule = await import(functionPath);
L150: } catch (error) {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 7. Low: Telemetry
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 9. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/base44@0.1.16/dist/cli/index.js>)

Package contains source files above the normal full-analysis size ceiling.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/cli/index.js
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 10848480
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 10. 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.

### 11. Medium: Remote Tarball Dependency
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/base44@0.1.16/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
Remote tarball dependency specs: @deno/loader@https://npm.jsr.io/~/11/@jsr/deno__loader/0.5.0.tgz
```

### 12. Low: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 87.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/base44@0.1.16/package.json>)

package.json defines a CLI entrypoint and has no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook; its remote tarball dependency is @deno/loader.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"dependencies": {
    "@deno/loader": "https://npm.jsr.io/~/11/@jsr/deno__loader/0.5.0.tgz",
    "esbuild": "0.28.0",
    "miniflare": "4.20260722.0"
  }
}
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 3
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 3

### Published dependency entries
- @deno/loader https://npm.jsr.io/~/11/@jsr/deno\_\_loader/0.5.0.tgz (Dependency)
- esbuild 0.28.0 (Dependency)
- miniflare 4.20260722.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** base44
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.1.16
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-22T07:24:05.443Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-14T08:22:44.294Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-01T09:55:57.064Z
- **Known versions:** 25
- **Latest version:** 0.2.7
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Base44 CLI - Unified interface for managing Base44 applications
- **Maintainers:** maorshlomo, netanelgilad, nirn, dolevepshtein, yurynix, roymiloh, cowchimp, carmelc, men-d
- **Keywords:** base44, cli, command-line
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.19.0
- **Artifact files:** 39
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 28,409,686 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/base44/v/0.1.16>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/base44/cli>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/base44/cli#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/base44/cli/issues>)
