---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/channel-worker/v/2.5.56"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/channel-worker/v/2.5.56.md"
package: "channel-worker"
report_status: "published"
title: "channel-worker@2.5.56 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "2.5.56"
---

# channel-worker@2.5.56 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:** 2.5.56
- **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.

Lifecycle hooks are absent, and the daemon, browser jobs, and npm self-update start only after an explicit CLI command with a worker token. Those behaviors match the stated channel-worker product and do not show a concrete hidden attack.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-27T23:12:22.819Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-27T23:13:09.025Z
- **Download time:** 520 ms
- **Static scan time:** 697 ms
- **AI review time:** 44988 ms
- **Total time:** 46206 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 install-time or import-time attack was identified. Network calls, browser automation, and self-update run only after a user starts the worker with a token.

- **Trigger:** A user runs channel-worker start or the update command after pairing.

- **Impact:** The host runs the operator's channel worker and can replace its own global install with a newer published version. No unsolicited credential harvest or foreign agent-config write was found.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-27T23:13:09.025Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The CLI detaches a local daemon that heartbeats and polls the configured API, then may install a newer release of this same package from the npm registry.

- **Rationale:** Lifecycle hooks are absent, and the daemon, browser jobs, and npm self-update start only after an explicit CLI command with a worker token. Those behaviors match the stated channel-worker product and do not show a concrete hidden attack.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 86.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** package.json exposes only start and dev scripts and has no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook., The start command loads a local config and exits unless a worker token is already present., The updater queries the public npm registry for this same package name and installs a newer global release only after the user-started daemon is running.

- **Evidence against:** A running daemon checks for a newer channel-worker release every five minutes and can npm-install it globally, then restart., After an explicit pair or init, the process polls the configured dashboard and drives browser profile jobs.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to channel-worker@2.5.56.

- Review the evidence and your use of channel-worker@2.5.56 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@2.5.56/bin/cli.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L137: // Spawn detached background process and exit
L138: const { spawn } = require('child_process');
L139: const LOG_FILE = path.join(CONFIG_DIR, 'daemon.log');
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package source references shell execution.

### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/channel-worker@2.5.56/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. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** lib/updater.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/channel-worker@2.5.56/lib/updater.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L29: console.log(`[updater] Installing ${PKG_NAME}@${version}...`);
L30: execSync(`npm install -g ${PKG_NAME}@${version}`, { stdio: 'inherit' });
L31: console.log(`[updater] Installed ${PKG_NAME}@${version}`);
```

### 8. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 9. Low: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

### 10. 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.

### 11. Low: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/channel-worker@2.5.56/package.json>)

package.json exposes only start and dev scripts and has no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"scripts": {
    "start": "node bin/cli.js start",
    "dev": "node bin/cli.js start --verbose"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "node-fetch":
```

### 12. Low: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/channel-worker@2.5.56/bin/cli.js>)

The start command loads a local config and exits unless a worker token is already present.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
} else if (cmd === 'start') {
  // Merge CLI args over saved config
  const saved = loadConfig();
  const config = {
    worker_id: args.id || saved.worker_id || `worker-${os.hostn
```

## 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:** 2.5.56
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-21T11:28:45.897Z
- **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:** 25
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 462,469 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/channel-worker/v/2.5.56>)