---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/channel-worker/v/2.5.61"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/channel-worker/v/2.5.61.md"
package: "channel-worker"
report_status: "published"
title: "channel-worker@2.5.61 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "2.5.61"
---

# channel-worker@2.5.61 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:** 2.5.61
- **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 hook, and the inspected CLI and daemon behavior is tied to starting the worker. The runtime package installation is an update of channel-worker from the npm registry, with no inspected evidence of unrelated mutation, credential export, or malicious execution.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 89.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-19T17:48:54.109Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-19T17:49:35.485Z
- **Download time:** 771 ms
- **Static scan time:** 691 ms
- **AI review time:** 39913 ms
- **Total time:** 41376 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 was identified in the inspected entrypoints. The package starts its worker when invoked and periodically checks for updates to itself.

- **Trigger:** A user invokes the CLI start command, which starts the daemon and its polling and update timers.

- **Impact:** The inspected behavior supports the package's worker and update functions; no concrete malicious behavior was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-19T17:49:35.485Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The worker registers with its configured dashboard, polls for jobs and commands, and checks the npm registry for a newer release of channel-worker.

- **Rationale:** The manifest has no install hook, and the inspected CLI and daemon behavior is tied to starting the worker. The runtime package installation is an update of channel-worker from the npm registry, with no inspected evidence of unrelated mutation, credential export, or malicious execution.

- **Network endpoints:** https://api.channel.tunasm.art, https://registry.npmjs.org/channel-worker/latest

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 89.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest defines only start and dev scripts; it has no install lifecycle hook., The CLI starts the daemon after the user invokes start, and pairing uses a dashboard API URL., The daemon registers the worker and starts job and command polling as part of its worker function., The updater checks the npm registry for a newer channel-worker version and installs that package globally., The background updater runs after daemon startup and on a timer; the source shows package self-updating rather than unrelated commands or data transfers.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to channel-worker@2.5.61.

- Review the evidence and your use of channel-worker@2.5.61 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@2.5.61/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. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/channel-worker@2.5.61/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');
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 6. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** lib/updater.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/channel-worker@2.5.61/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}`);
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 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:** 95.0%

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

### 10. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/channel-worker@2.5.61/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 = 0.360
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

### 11. Low: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 89.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/channel-worker@2.5.61/package.json>)

The manifest defines only start and dev scripts; it has no install lifecycle hook.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"scripts": {
    "start": "node bin/cli.js start",
    "dev": "node bin/cli.js start --verbose"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "node-fetch": "^3.3.2",
    "playwright-cor
```

### 12. Low: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 89.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/channel-worker@2.5.61/bin/cli.js>)

The CLI starts the daemon after the user invokes start, and pairing uses a dashboard API URL.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
const args = parseArgs(process.argv.slice(2));
const cmd = args._cmd || 'start';

if (cmd === 'pair') {
  // Pair with dashboard using one-time code
  const code = args.code;
  const apiUrl = args.api || DEFAULT_API_URL;
  const nstKey = args['nst-key'] || '';
```

## 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:** 2.5.61
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-26T13:54:54.061Z
- **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:** 27
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 490,792 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/channel-worker/v/2.5.61>)