---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/codeplay-common/v/4.6.7"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/codeplay-common/v/4.6.7.md"
package: "codeplay-common"
report_status: "published"
title: "codeplay-common@4.6.7 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "4.6.7"
---

# codeplay-common@4.6.7 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 18 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Destructive Action
- **Selected version:** 4.6.7
- **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.

Automatic preinstall cleanup can delete existing project contents, and postinstall overwrites project files and scripts, so a warning is warranted. The inspected source does not establish a malicious payload, credential transfer, or unconsented agent-control mutation.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 89.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-19T10:28:59.271Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-19T10:29:53.387Z
- **Download time:** 506 ms
- **Static scan time:** 575 ms
- **AI review time:** 53034 ms
- **Total time:** 54116 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:** Install hooks modify the consumer project automatically. Preinstall recursively removes named project directories and files, and postinstall copies package files and updates project scripts.

- **Trigger:** Installing the package with npm, which runs its preinstall and postinstall hooks.

- **Impact:** Existing project files in those locations can be removed or overwritten during installation. The inspected source does not establish credential theft or agent-control hijacking.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/uninstall.js, scripts/sync-files.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-19T10:29:53.387Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The preinstall hook deletes project-root build and splash directories and matching files; postinstall copies the package's files into the project and edits package.json scripts.

- **Rationale:** Automatic preinstall cleanup can delete existing project contents, and postinstall overwrites project files and scripts, so a warning is warranted. The inspected source does not establish a malicious payload, credential transfer, or unconsented agent-control mutation.

- **Files touched:** package.json, scripts/uninstall.js, scripts/sync-files.js

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 89.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** package.json runs uninstall.js during preinstall and sync-files.js during postinstall., The preinstall cleanup recursively deletes the consumer project's buildCodeplay and splashxml directories., The preinstall hook also removes matching project-root files, including .env.storeid1 through .env.storeid7., The postinstall hook copies package files into the consumer project and rewrites its package.json scripts., A separate build script defines AGENTS.md and AGENTS paths; this alone does not establish install-time agent configuration mutation.

- **Evidence against:** The observed lifecycle writes and removals target product build assets and project setup files; inspected source does not establish credential theft, unrelated network disclosure, or agent-control hijacking., The inspected manifestModification.js edits an Android manifest namespace, and iap-install-2.js selects a store from the configured store ID.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to codeplay-common@4.6.7.

- Review the evidence and your use of codeplay-common@4.6.7 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeplay-common@4.6.7/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/sync-files.js
```

### 2. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** files/generate-ai-promo-video.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeplay-common@4.6.7/files/generate-ai-promo-video.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L17: const { createHash } = require('node:crypto');
L18: const { spawnSync } = require('node:child_process');
L19: const { createInterface } = require('node:readline/promises');
```

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

Package source references shell execution.

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** scripts/sync-files.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeplay-common@4.6.7/scripts/sync-files.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: const fs = require("fs");
L2: const path = require("path");
```

### 6. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** files/generate-ai-promo-video.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeplay-common@4.6.7/files/generate-ai-promo-video.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L17: const { createHash } = require('node:crypto');
L18: const { spawnSync } = require('node:child_process');
L19: const { createInterface } = require('node:readline/promises');
L20: 
L21: const projectDirectory = __dirname;
L22: const capacitorConfigPath = path.join(projectDirectory, 'capacitor.config.json');
L23: const capacitorConfig = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(capacitorConfigPath, 'utf8'));
L24: const appName = String(capacitorConfig.appName || '').trim();
...
L41: const appFilePrefix = `${appUniqueId}. ${sanitizeFileNamePart(appName)}`;
L42: const playStoreDownloadUrl = `https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=${encodeURIComponent(packageId)}`;
L43: const configuredAppStoreUrl = String(iosStoreConfig.appStoreUrl || '')
...
L88: const promoCopyResultPath = path.join(temporaryDir
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 10. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** files/buildCodeplay/codeplayBeforeBuild-6.3.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeplay-common@4.6.7/files/buildCodeplay/codeplayBeforeBuild-6.3.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L111: try {
L112: execSync(`npm install ${packageName}`, { stdio: "inherit" });
L113: console.log(`✅ "${packageName}" installed successfully.`);
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 13. 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.

### 14. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** files/buildCodeplay/codeplayBeforeBuild-6.3.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeplay-common@4.6.7/files/buildCodeplay/codeplayBeforeBuild-6.3.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_parse_error; limitedFiles = 4
```

### 15. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** files/iap-install-2.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeplay-common@4.6.7/files/iap-install-2.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = codeplay-common@4.4.6
matchedPath = files/iap-install-2.js
matchedIdentity = npm:Y29kZXBsYXktY29tbW9u:4.4.6
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 16. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** files/buildCodeplay/manifestModification.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeplay-common@4.6.7/files/buildCodeplay/manifestModification.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = codeplay-common@4.4.6
matchedPath = [redacted].js
matchedIdentity = npm:Y29kZXBsYXktY29tbW9u:4.4.6
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** files/scripts/setup-baseline-profile.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeplay-common@4.6.7/files/scripts/setup-baseline-profile.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = codeplay-common@4.4.6
matchedPath = files/scripts/setup-baseline-profile.js
matchedIdentity = npm:Y29kZXBsYXktY29tbW9u:4.4.6
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 18. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** files/buildCodeplay/codeplayBeforeBuild-6.3.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeplay-common@4.6.7/files/buildCodeplay/codeplayBeforeBuild-6.3.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 = codeplay-common@4.4.7
matchedIdentity = npm:Y29kZXBsYXktY29tbW9u:4.4.7
similarity = 0.588
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, preinstall
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** codeplay-common
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 4.6.7
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-22T05:24:29.772Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-04T11:12:22.441Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-22T12:40:42.055Z
- **Known versions:** 53
- **Latest version:** 4.9.9
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Common build scripts and files
- **Author:** Codeplay Technologies
- **Maintainers:** merbin2012
- **Artifact files:** 25
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 429,634 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/codeplay-common/v/4.6.7>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/merbin2012/codeplay-common>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/merbin2012/codeplay-common#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/merbin2012/codeplay-common/issues>)
