---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/channel-worker/v/2.5.139"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/channel-worker/v/2.5.139.md"
package: "channel-worker"
report_status: "published"
title: "channel-worker@2.5.139 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "2.5.139"
---

# channel-worker@2.5.139 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 13 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:** 2.5.139
- **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.

Source inspection found no install lifecycle hook or concrete malicious behavior. Runtime self-update and worker API access are package-aligned behavior in the inspected code.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 88.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-19T17:50:02.929Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-19T17:50:56.682Z
- **Download time:** 500 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1322 ms
- **AI review time:** 51930 ms
- **Total time:** 53753 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 surface was identified in the inspected entrypoints. The runtime updater installs a newer release of this package from the npm registry, and the CLI communicates with the package’s service API using its configured worker token.

- **Trigger:** Starting the daemon activates polling and periodic update checks.

- **Impact:** The inspected behavior supports the worker’s service and update functions; it does not establish credential theft or unrelated system mutation.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-19T17:50:56.682Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The daemon checks the npm registry for a newer channel-worker version and installs it; API requests use the configured API URL and worker token.

- **Rationale:** Source inspection found no install lifecycle hook or concrete malicious behavior. Runtime self-update and worker API access are package-aligned behavior in the inspected code.

- **Files touched:** package.json, bin/cli.js, lib/updater.js, lib/daemon.js, lib/api-client.js

- **Network endpoints:** api.channel.tunasm.art, registry.npmjs.org

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 88.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** package.json starts the CLI and declares no install lifecycle hook., The CLI stores the worker token from pairing or an explicit argument and defaults to the package’s service API., The updater checks the npm registry for this package’s latest version before installing that version., The daemon starts the updater on a five-minute interval; this is package self-update behavior.

- **Evidence against:** The package can install a newer release at runtime, but the inspected path selects this package by name and version from the npm registry., The API client sends its configured worker token to its configured API URL; the CLI’s default URL is the package’s service API.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to channel-worker@2.5.139.

- Review the evidence and your use of channel-worker@2.5.139 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. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/channel-worker@2.5.139/bin/cli.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L182: 
L183: const { spawn } = require('child_process');
L184: const LOG_FILE = path.join(CONFIG_DIR, 'daemon.log');
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** lib/updater.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/channel-worker@2.5.139/lib/updater.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L25: // Khởi động lại có làm được không? Bước restart mở daemon.log để nối log của
L26: // daemon thay thế. Daemon bật qua .bat có `>> daemon.log` thì cmd.exe giữ file
L27: // đó suốt đời tiến trình → Windows trả EBUSY. Trả mã lỗi, hoặc '' nếu mở được.
```

### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/channel-worker@2.5.139/bin/cli.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: 
L3: const fs = require('fs');
L4: const path = require('path');
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

### 6. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** lib/updater.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/channel-worker@2.5.139/lib/updater.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L120: console.log(`[updater] Installing ${PKG_NAME}@${version}...`);
L121: execSync(`npm install -g ${PKG_NAME}@${version}`, { stdio: 'inherit', windowsHide: true });
L122: console.log(`[updater] Installed ${PKG_NAME}@${version}`);
```

### 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: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 95.0%

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

### 12. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** lib/daemon.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/channel-worker@2.5.139/lib/daemon.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 3
```

### 13. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/channel-worker@2.5.139/bin/cli.js>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = channel-worker@2.5.102
matchedIdentity = npm:Y2hhbm5lbC13b3JrZXI:2.5.102
similarity = 0.357
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## 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
- node-fetch ^3.3.2 (Dependency)
- playwright-core ^1.48.0 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.18.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** channel-worker
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.5.139
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-24T03:51:44.221Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-02T16:31:24.520Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-19T17:52:13.988Z
- **Known versions:** 68
- **Latest version:** 2.5.158
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Channel Manager worker daemon — runs on remote machines to execute video pipeline jobs
- **Deprecated:** Package no longer supported. Contact Support at https://www.npmjs.com/support for more info.
- **Maintainers:** gatoasang94
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 35
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 833,962 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/channel-worker/v/2.5.139>)