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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/canvasxpress-cli/v/72.1.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/canvasxpress-cli/v/72.1.0.md"
package: "canvasxpress-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "canvasxpress-cli@72.1.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "72.1.0"
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# canvasxpress-cli@72.1.0 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:** 72.1.0
- **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.

The manifest has no install lifecycle scripts, and the CLI routes user-invoked commands to rendering functionality. The scanner’s dynamic-code signal corresponds to explicit serialized event-function handling; no concrete attack behavior was identified.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-19T19:31:48.071Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-19T19:32:19.860Z
- **Download time:** 777 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2086 ms
- **AI review time:** 28926 ms
- **Total time:** 31789 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 in the inspected CLI and bundle paths. The dynamic evaluation is tied to the library’s serialized event-function format.

- **Trigger:** A user invokes a CLI command or loads event data containing a serialized function value.

- **Impact:** No concrete harmful effect was established from this behavior.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-19T19:32:19.860Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The bundle reconstructs a function only when an event string matches its explicit function wrapper format.

- **Rationale:** The manifest has no install lifecycle scripts, and the CLI routes user-invoked commands to rendering functionality. The scanner’s dynamic-code signal corresponds to explicit serialized event-function handling; no concrete attack behavior was identified.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** package.json defines a CLI binary and lists dependencies; the manifest has no lifecycle scripts., The CLI dispatches rendering commands to its I/O module, and its canvas command loads a path derived from user input., The bundle evaluates function strings only when event values use its explicit serialized-function format; it also serializes functions in that format.

- **Evidence against:** No concrete attack behavior was identified in the inspected entrypoint or bundle paths.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to canvasxpress-cli@72.1.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of canvasxpress-cli@72.1.0 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@72.1.0/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@72.1.0/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@72.1.0/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: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** .github/scripts/triage\_issue.py
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/canvasxpress-cli@72.1.0/.github/scripts/triage_issue.py>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```python
path = .github/scripts/triage_issue.py
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 6629
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. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 12. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** src/canvasXpress.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/canvasxpress-cli@72.1.0/src/canvasXpress.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_path_work_budget_exceeded; limitedFiles = 1
```

## 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:** 72.1.0
- **License:** SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE
- **Version published:** 2026-10-19T18:17:40.102Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-22T19:47:24.792Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-05T01:07:22.546Z
- **Known versions:** 69
- **Latest version:** 73.8.0
- **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:** 20
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 4,426,086 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/canvasxpress-cli/v/72.1.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/neuhausi/canvasXpress-cli>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/neuhausi/canvasxpress#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/neuhausi/canvasxpress/issues>)
