---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/botium-core/v/1.15.15"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/botium-core/v/1.15.15.md"
package: "botium-core"
report_status: "published"
title: "botium-core@1.15.15 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.15.15"
---

# botium-core@1.15.15 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 18 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Unknown
- **Selected version:** 1.15.15
- **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: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Inspected source shows opt-out installation analytics and a private-key field in a sample configuration. The key's validity is unresolved, so warn without blocking publication.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 79.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-08T16:59:42.426Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-08T17:00:24.875Z
- **Download time:** 760 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2312 ms
- **AI review time:** 39376 ms
- **Total time:** 42449 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 confirmed attack behavior was identified. The package does send installation metadata by default, and a sample configuration contains a private key.

- **Trigger:** Package installation triggers the postinstall report; the sample key is present in the published package files.

- **Impact:** The telemetry exposes limited installation metadata. The included sample credential may be exposed to package consumers; source inspection did not establish whether it is live or usable.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, report.js, samples/scripting/utterances/botium.json

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-08T17:00:24.875Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The report posts platform, architecture, package name, and version to its configured analytics host. The sample file includes a Dialogflow private key field.

- **Rationale:** Inspected source shows opt-out installation analytics and a private-key field in a sample configuration. The key's validity is unresolved, so warn without blocking publication.

- **Network endpoints:** v1.license.botium.cyaraportal.us

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 79.0%

- **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn

- **Intent class:** Unknown

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The package runs report.js automatically after installation., The report sends platform, architecture, package name, and version to a host configurable through an environment variable; reporting can be disabled with BOTIUM\_ANALYTICS=false., A sample configuration contains a Dialogflow private key, creating a risk that a credential was included in the published package.

- **Evidence against:** The install report's listed payload is limited to platform, architecture, package name, and version., The report has an explicit environment-variable opt-out., The package entrypoint exports Botium library components; inspected source did not show an attack chain.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to botium-core@1.15.15.

- Review the evidence and your use of botium-core@1.15.15 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/botium-core@1.15.15/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. Critical: Critical Secret
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** samples/scripting/utterances/botium.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/botium-core@1.15.15/samples/scripting/utterances/botium.json>)

Package contains a critical-looking secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
patternName = private_key_rsa
severity = critical
line = 8
```

### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/botium-cjs.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/botium-core@1.15.15/dist/botium-cjs.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: 
L5: var util = require('util');
L6: var fs = require('fs');
```

### 5. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/botium-es.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/botium-core@1.15.15/dist/botium-es.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L24: import yaml from 'yaml';
L25: import child_process from 'child_process';
L26: import socket from 'socket.io-client';
...
L30: import ioredis from 'ioredis';
L31: import undici from 'undici';
L32: import express from 'express';
...
L225: SIMPLEREST_PING_VERB: 'SIMPLEREST_PING_VERB',
L226: SIMPLEREST_PING_BODY: 'SIMPLEREST_PING_BODY',
L227: SIMPLEREST_PING_BODY_RAW: 'SIMPLEREST_PING_BODY_RAW',
...
L1427: this.mimeType = fromJson.mimeType;
L1428: this.base64 = fromJson.base64;
L1429: this.href = fromJson.href;
```

### 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. 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.

### 11. Medium: Ships Compressed Blob
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** test/convo/convos/tree/excel/testbotium.xlsx
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/botium-core@1.15.15/test/convo/convos/tree/excel/testbotium.xlsx>)

Package ships compressed or archive-like blobs.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = [redacted].xlsx
kind = compressed_blob
sizeBytes = 129572
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 12. High: Ships High Entropy Blob
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** test/convo/convos/tree/excel/testbotium.xlsx
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/botium-core@1.15.15/test/convo/convos/tree/excel/testbotium.xlsx>)

Package ships high-entropy non-source blobs.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = [redacted].xlsx
kind = high_entropy_blob
sizeBytes = 129572
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 13. High: Payload In Excluded Dir
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** test/convo/convos/tree/excel/testbotium.xlsx
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/botium-core@1.15.15/test/convo/convos/tree/excel/testbotium.xlsx>)

Package hides binary, compressed, or executable-looking payloads in test/fixture/hidden paths.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = [redacted].xlsx
kind = payload_in_excluded_dir
sizeBytes = 129572
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 14. Low: Nested Archive Needs Inspection
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** test/convo/convos/tree/excel/testbotium.xlsx
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/botium-core@1.15.15/test/convo/convos/tree/excel/testbotium.xlsx>)

Package ships a nested archive or MCP bundle that was inventoried but not recursively analyzed.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = [redacted].xlsx
kind = nested_archive_needs_inspection
sizeBytes = 129572
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 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/botium-core@1.15.15/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. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/botium-cjs.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/botium-core@1.15.15/dist/botium-cjs.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_trace_path_limit_exceeded; limitedFiles = 4
```

### 18. Critical: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** samples/scripting/utterances/botium.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/botium-core@1.15.15/samples/scripting/utterances/botium.json>)

RSA private key in samples/scripting/utterances/botium.json

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
patternName = private_key_rsa
severity = critical
line = 8
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 35
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 23
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 35

### Published dependency entries
- @babel/runtime ^7.28.6 (Dependency)
- async ^3.2.6 (Dependency)
- body-parser ^2.3.0 (Dependency)
- bottleneck ^2.19.5 (Dependency)
- csv-parse ^6.1.0 (Dependency)
- debug ^4.4.3 (Dependency)
- express ^5.2.1 (Dependency)
- globby 11.0.4 (Dependency)
- ioredis ^5.10.0 (Dependency)
- is-class ^0.0.9 (Dependency)
- is-json ^2.0.1 (Dependency)
- jsonpath ^1.3.0 (Dependency)
- lodash ^4.18.1 (Dependency)
- markdown-it ^14.3.0 (Dependency)
- mime-types ^3.0.2 (Dependency)
- mkdirp ^3.0.1 (Dependency)
- moment ^2.30.1 (Dependency)
- moment-timezone ^0.6.0 (Dependency)
- mustache ^4.2.0 (Dependency)
- promise-retry ^2.0.1 (Dependency)
- promise.allsettled ^1.0.7 (Dependency)
- randomatic ^3.1.1 (Dependency)
- rimraf ^6.1.3 (Dependency)
- sanitize-filename ^1.6.3 (Dependency)
- slugify ^1.6.6 (Dependency)
- socket.io ^4.8.3 (Dependency)
- socket.io-client ^4.8.3 (Dependency)
- socketio-auth ^0.1.1 (Dependency)
- tinyglobby ^0.2.17 (Dependency)
- undici ^7.29.0 (Dependency)
- word-error-rate 0.0.7 (Dependency)
- write-yaml ^1.0.0 (Dependency)
- xlsx https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-0.20.3/xlsx-0.20.3.tgz (Dependency)
- xregexp ^5.1.2 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.9.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** botium-core
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.15.15
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-28T10:02:35.207Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-26T18:55:49.353Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-30T13:49:35.528Z
- **Known versions:** 5
- **Latest version:** 1.15.18
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** The Selenium for Chatbots
- **Author:** Florian Treml
- **Maintainers:** ftreml
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18.17
- **Artifact files:** 668
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 4,178,818 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/botium-core/v/1.15.15>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/codeforequity-at/botium-core>)
- [Homepage](<https://www.botium.ai/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/codeforequity-at/botium-core/issues>)
