---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/channel-worker/v/2.5.149"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/channel-worker/v/2.5.149.md"
package: "channel-worker"
report_status: "published"
title: "channel-worker@2.5.149 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "2.5.149"
---

# channel-worker@2.5.149 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 13 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:** 2.5.149
- **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.

Source inspection did not establish malicious behavior, but the daemon automatically installs newer package releases globally. This unresolved remote code replacement capability warrants a warning rather than a block.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 79.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-19T17:50:33.172Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-19T17:52:13.988Z
- **Download time:** 510 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1483 ms
- **AI review time:** 98822 ms
- **Total time:** 100816 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 concrete malicious attack was established. Daemon startup enables automatic installation of newer releases of this package from npm.

- **Trigger:** A user starts the daemon; its update checker runs periodically.

- **Impact:** A registry release can replace the installed package and supply code that runs after restart; the inspected source does not show unrelated data transfer or destructive behavior.

- **Evidence paths:** lib/updater.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-19T17:52:13.988Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The updater checks the registry for a newer version and invokes a global npm install for that release.

- **Rationale:** Source inspection did not establish malicious behavior, but the daemon automatically installs newer package releases globally. This unresolved remote code replacement capability warrants a warning rather than a block.

- **Files touched:** lib/updater.js

- **Network endpoints:** registry.npmjs.org

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 79.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The package manifest exposes start and dev commands and lists no install lifecycle hook., Starting the CLI loads its saved configuration and enters daemon startup., Daemon startup activates a periodic automatic update checker., The updater runs a global npm install for a newer channel-worker release, creating an automatic remote code replacement capability.

- **Evidence against:** The inspected update path targets this package itself; source does not establish unrelated data theft, destructive behavior, or broader persistence.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to channel-worker@2.5.149.

- Review the evidence and your use of channel-worker@2.5.149 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@2.5.149/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@2.5.149/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@2.5.149/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@2.5.149/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@2.5.149/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 = 4
```

### 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@2.5.149/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:** 2.5.149
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-03T04:21:08.427Z
- **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:** 39
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 906,108 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/channel-worker/v/2.5.149>)