---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/create-mastra/v/1.25.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/create-mastra/v/1.25.0.md"
package: "create-mastra"
report_status: "published"
title: "create-mastra@1.25.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.25.0"
---

# create-mastra@1.25.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as agent extension risk** — Allowed by default with warning: install-time first-party agent extension setup was detected.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only agent extension risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Agent extension lifecycle risk
- **Selected version:** 1.25.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

LPM treats this as warn-only first-party agent extension lifecycle risk. A create-mastra CLI invocation can automatically install Mastra skills targeted at detected coding agents in the newly generated project. This is a remote package-install and agent-extension lifecycle capability, not an npm install hook.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-14T00:35:24.039Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-14T00:36:13.999Z
- **Download time:** 514 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2424 ms
- **AI review time:** 47022 ms
- **Total time:** 49960 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** A create-mastra CLI invocation can automatically install Mastra skills targeted at detected coding agents in the newly generated project. This is a remote package-install and agent-extension lifecycle capability, not an npm install hook.

- **Trigger:** User runs the create-mastra CLI without --no-skills.

- **Impact:** May modify agent skill configuration/content in the generated project and fetch the named skills package.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/index.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-14T00:36:13.999Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Detects coding-agent executables and invokes npx to add Mastra skills.

- **Rationale:** The package is not malicious under the install-hook boundary, but its default post-create remote agent-skill installation is a meaningful extension lifecycle risk that warrants a warning.

- **Files touched:** dist/index.js

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 84.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for:** The user-invoked CLI defaults to installing Mastra skills unless --no-skills is supplied., Post-create setup detects installed coding agents and runs \`npx skills add mastra-ai/skills --agent ... -y\` in the generated project.

- **Evidence against:** package.json defines a CLI bin but no preinstall, install, or postinstall lifecycle hook., The agent-related action occurs after an explicit create-mastra command and is disableable with --no-skills., No source evidence of credential exfiltration, destructive behavior, or foreign global agent-config writes was found.

## 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:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-mastra@1.25.0/dist/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8: import fsPromises__default, { readFile, mkdir, writeFile, chmod } from 'node:fs/promises';
L9: import require$$0, { execFileSync, ChildProcess, execFile, spawnSync, spawn } from 'node:child_process';
L10: import { createServer } from 'node:http';
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-mastra@1.25.0/dist/index.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L11: import require$$4, { styleText, debuglog, stripVTControlCharacters, inspect, promisify, callbackify, aborted as aborted$1 } from 'node:util';
L12: import process$3, { stdout, stdin, platform, hrtime, execPath, execArgv } from 'node:process';
L13: import * as l from 'node:readline';
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-mastra@1.25.0/dist/index.js>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L21207: try {
L21208: await execa(packageManager || getPackageManager(), ["install"], {
L21209: cwd: projectPath,
...
L21219: }
L21220: const TEMPLATES_API_URL = process.env.MASTRA_TEMPLATES_API_URL || "https://mastra.ai/api/templates.json";
L21221: async function loadTemplates() {
```

### 8. Critical: Hardcoded Runtime Data Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-mastra@1.25.0/dist/index.js>)

Source sends credentials or rich application records to a package-controlled external receiver enabled by default.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8: import fsPromises__default, { readFile, mkdir, writeFile, chmod } from 'node:fs/promises';
L9: import require$$0, { execFileSync, ChildProcess, execFile, spawnSync, spawn } from 'node:child_process';
L10: import { createServer } from 'node:http';
L11: import require$$4, { styleText, debuglog, stripVTControlCharacters, inspect, promisify, callbackify, aborted as aborted$1 } from 'node:util';
L12: import process$3, { stdout, stdin, platform, hrtime, execPath, execArgv } from 'node:process';
L13: import * as l from 'node:readline';
...
L88: // with no body, we should not to set Content-Type
L89: serializedBody === void 0 || // if serialized body is FormData; browser will correctly set Content-Type & boundary expression
L90: serializedBody instanceof FormData ? {} : {
...
L216: if (parseAs
```

### 9. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-mastra@1.25.0/dist/index.js>)

Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration.
dist/index.js:
import fs, { readFileSync, statSync, appendFileSync, writeFileSync, createWriteStream, createReadStream, existsSync, mkdirSync, constants as constants$2 } from 'node:fs';
import fsPromises__default, { readFile, mkdir, writeFile, chmod } from 'node:fs/promises';
import * as l from 'node:readline';
import l__default from 'node:readline';
baseUrl = "",
baseUrl = removeTrailingSlash(baseUrl);
baseUrl: localBaseUrl,
let finalBaseUrl = baseUrl;
```

### 10. High: Entrypoint Foreign Package Code Overwrite
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-mastra@1.25.0/dist/index.js>)

Manifest-reachable source overwrites another installed package with package-defined remote behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source resolves another installed package, overwrites its runtime code, and injects package-defined remote behavior.
dist/index.js:
import fs, { readFileSync, statSync, appendFileSync, writeFileSync, createWriteStream, createReadStream, existsSync, mkdirSync, constants as constants$2 } from 'node:fs';
import fsPromises__default, { readFile, mkdir, writeFile, chmod } from 'node:fs/promises';
redirect: "follow",
const MASTRA_PLATFORM_API_URL = process.env.MASTRA_PLATFORM_API_URL || "https://platform.mastra.ai";
if (MASTRA_PLATFORM_API_URL.includes("staging")) return "https://gateway-api.staging.mastra.ai/v1";
return "https://gateway-api.mastra.ai/v1";
if (MASTRA_PLATFORM_API_URL.includes("staging")) return "https://studio.staging.mastra.ai";
return "https://studio.mastra.a
```

### 11. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-mastra@1.25.0/dist/index.js>)

Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L10339: // If `subprocess.stdin` is destroyed before being fully written to, it is considered aborted and should throw an error.
L10340: // This can happen for example when user called `subprocess.stdin.destroy()` before `subprocess.stdin.end()`.
L10341: // However, Node.js calls `subprocess.stdin.destroy()` on exit for cleanup purposes.
L10342: // https://github.[redacted]child_process.js#L278
L10343: // This is normal and should not throw an error.
...
L10348: // The only way to detect this is to spy on `subprocess.stdin._destroy()` by wrapping it.
L10349: // If `subprocess.exitCode` or `subprocess.signalCode` is set, it means `.destroy()` is being called by Node.js itself.
L10350: const handleStdinDestroy = (stream, {originalStreams: [originalStdin], subprocess}) => {
```

### 12. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-mastra@1.25.0/dist/index.js>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8: import fsPromises__default, { readFile, mkdir, writeFile, chmod } from 'node:fs/promises';
L9: import require$$0, { execFileSync, ChildProcess, execFile, spawnSync, spawn } from 'node:child_process';
L10: import { createServer } from 'node:http';
L11: import require$$4, { styleText, debuglog, stripVTControlCharacters, inspect, promisify, callbackify, aborted as aborted$1 } from 'node:util';
L12: import process$3, { stdout, stdin, platform, hrtime, execPath, execArgv } from 'node:process';
L13: import * as l from 'node:readline';
...
L88: // with no body, we should not to set Content-Type
L89: serializedBody === void 0 || // if serialized body is FormData; browser will correctly set Content-Type & boundary expression
L90: serializedBody instanceof FormData ? {} : {
...
L216: if (parseAs
```

### 13. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-mastra@1.25.0/dist/index.js>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: manifest.main -> dist/index.js
L8: import fsPromises__default, { readFile, mkdir, writeFile, chmod } from 'node:fs/promises';
L9: import require$$0, { execFileSync, ChildProcess, execFile, spawnSync, spawn } from 'node:child_process';
L10: import { createServer } from 'node:http';
L11: import require$$4, { styleText, debuglog, stripVTControlCharacters, inspect, promisify, callbackify, aborted as aborted$1 } from 'node:util';
L12: import process$3, { stdout, stdin, platform, hrtime, execPath, execArgv } from 'node:process';
L13: import * as l from 'node:readline';
...
L88: // with no body, we should not to set Content-Type
L89: serializedBody === void 0 || // if serialized body is FormData; browser will correctly set Content-Type & boundary expression
L90: serialize
```

### 14. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-mastra@1.25.0/dist/index.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches command-output exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable command-output exfiltration chain: manifest.main -> dist/index.js
L10339: // If `subprocess.stdin` is destroyed before being fully written to, it is considered aborted and should throw an error.
L10340: // This can happen for example when user called `subprocess.stdin.destroy()` before `subprocess.stdin.end()`.
L10341: // However, Node.js calls `subprocess.stdin.destroy()` on exit for cleanup purposes.
L10342: // https://github.[redacted]child_process.js#L278
L10343: // This is normal and should not throw an error.
...
L10348: // The only way to detect this is to spy on `subprocess.stdin._destroy()` by wrapping it.
L10349: // If `subprocess.exitCode` or `subprocess.signalCode` is set, it means `.destroy()` is being called by Node.js itself.
L10350: const handleStdinDestro
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 16. Low: Telemetry
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 18. 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.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 5
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 13
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 5

### Published dependency entries
- commander ^14.0.3 (Dependency)
- pino ^10.3.1 (Dependency)
- pino-pretty ^13.1.3 (Dependency)
- posthog-node ^5.46.1 (Dependency)
- tinyexec ^1.1.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** create-mastra
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.25.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-08-14T00:34:59.996Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-21T01:28:04.372Z
- **Known versions:** 11
- **Latest version:** 1.26.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Create Mastra apps with one command
- **Maintainers:** abhiaiyer, smthomas, rase-, calcsam, nikaiyer, tylerbarnes, wardpeet
- **Keywords:** mastra, create, cli, starter, boilerplate, template, init, generator, scaffold, ai, llm, llms
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.13.0
- **Artifact files:** 11
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,593,455 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/create-mastra/v/1.25.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra>)
- [Homepage](<https://mastra.ai/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra/issues>)