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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/canvasxpress-cli/v/69.3.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/canvasxpress-cli/v/69.3.0.md"
package: "canvasxpress-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "canvasxpress-cli@69.3.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "69.3.0"
---

# canvasxpress-cli@69.3.0 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:** 69.3.0
- **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.

Static inspection found a user-invoked CLI and rendering exports, with no lifecycle hook or concrete malicious behavior. The package is clean under the reviewed source evidence.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 90.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-24T01:29:54.909Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-24T01:34:08.299Z
- **Download time:** 1029 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1843 ms
- **AI review time:** 250517 ms
- **Total time:** 253390 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 surface was identified. The package provides a user-invoked command-line visualization tool.

- **Trigger:** A user runs the canvasxpress command.

- **Impact:** No unconsented attack impact was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-24T01:34:08.299Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The command invokes the package's visualization functionality; no automatic malicious mechanism was identified.

- **Rationale:** Static inspection found a user-invoked CLI and rendering exports, with no lifecycle hook or concrete malicious behavior. The package is clean under the reviewed source evidence.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 90.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest exposes a canvasxpress command and contains no lifecycle hook., The required CanvasXpress source exports rendering-related functions., No automatic credential collection, shell execution, persistence, or package-install network action was identified in the inspected entrypoints.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to canvasxpress-cli@69.3.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of canvasxpress-cli@69.3.0 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: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** src/canvasXpress.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/canvasxpress-cli@69.3.0/src/canvasXpress.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L26: */
L27: (function(b,a){if(typeof exports==="object"){a(exports)}else{(a((b.CanvasXpress=b.CanvasXpress||{})))}}(this,(function(){var a=(typeof CanvasXpress==="function")?CanvasXpress:null;...
L28: exports['init'] = CanvasXpress;
```

### 2. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/canvasxpress-cli@69.3.0/index.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: const minimist = require('minimist');
L2: const path = require('path');
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 5. High: Obfuscated Payload Loader
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** src/canvasXpress.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/canvasxpress-cli@69.3.0/src/canvasXpress.js>)

Source contains an obfuscated payload loader that reconstructs and executes hidden code.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L26: */
L27: (function(b,a){if(typeof exports==="object"){a(exports)}else{(a((b.CanvasXpress=b.CanvasXpress||{})))}}(this,(function(){var a=(typeof CanvasXpress==="function")?CanvasXpress:null;...
L28: exports['init'] = CanvasXpress;
```

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

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

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 11. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/canvasxpress-cli@69.3.0/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 2
```

### 12. Low: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/canvasxpress-cli@69.3.0/package.json>)

The manifest exposes a canvasxpress command and contains no lifecycle hook.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"bin": {
    "canvasxpress": "bin/canvasxpress"
  },
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 6
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 6

### Published dependency entries
- chalk ^2.4.2 (Dependency)
- clear ^0.1.0 (Dependency)
- figlet ^1.2.1 (Dependency)
- minimist ^1.2.0 (Dependency)
- ora ^3.4.0 (Dependency)
- playwright ^1.45.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** canvasxpress-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 69.3.0
- **License:** SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE
- **Version published:** 2026-09-17T19:24:29.023Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-22T19:47:24.792Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T18:29:40.772Z
- **Known versions:** 68
- **Latest version:** 73.6.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Node program to run canvasXpress in the command line
- **Author:** Isaac M. Neuhaus
- **Maintainers:** neuhausi
- **Keywords:** bioinformatics, genomics, data, visualization, graph, reproducible, research, analytics
- **Artifact files:** 17
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 4,036,258 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/canvasxpress-cli/v/69.3.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/neuhausi/canvasXpress-cli>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/neuhausi/canvasxpress#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/neuhausi/canvasxpress/issues>)
