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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/create-mastra/v/1.27.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/create-mastra/v/1.27.2.md"
package: "create-mastra"
report_status: "published"
title: "create-mastra@1.27.2 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.27.2"
---

# create-mastra@1.27.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as AI-agent capability risk** — Allowed by default with warning: agent-facing configuration or capability changes need review before use.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only AI-agent capability risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** AI-agent capability abuse
- **Selected version:** 1.27.2
- **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.

The source shows an explicit-user-command agent setup path and default telemetry, which warrant a warning. It does not show automatic npm lifecycle execution or a concrete malicious payload.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 90.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-28T21:38:36.485Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-28T21:39:37.325Z
- **Download time:** 501 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1721 ms
- **AI review time:** 58617 ms
- **Total time:** 60840 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:** Running the create command can invoke a remote npx skills installer for detected AI coding agents. It also transmits CLI telemetry to PostHog by default.

- **Trigger:** The user runs the create-mastra command without --no-skills.

- **Impact:** A remote installer may modify supported AI-agent integrations in the generated project; telemetry exposes host and CLI metadata.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-28T21:39:37.325Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Remote skills installation and default CLI telemetry.

- **Rationale:** The source shows an explicit-user-command agent setup path and default telemetry, which warrant a warning. It does not show automatic npm lifecycle execution or a concrete malicious payload.

- **Files touched:** .mastra/analytics.json, \<generated-project-path\>

- **Network endpoints:** https://us.posthog.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 90.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** The user-invoked create command installs Mastra skills through npx for detected coding agents by default., The CLI enables PostHog telemetry by default and sends a persistent identifier, hostname, and system details., The skills setup is remote command execution outside the package and can affect detected AI-agent integrations.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook., Project generation, dependency installation, and skills setup occur only after the user runs the create command., Platform observability requires an interactive choice before its authentication flow.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to create-mastra@1.27.2.

- Review the evidence and your use of create-mastra@1.27.2 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:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-mastra@1.27.2/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@1.27.2/dist/index.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L11: import require$$4, { styleText, debuglog, stripVTControlCharacters, inspect, promisify, callbackify, aborted } from 'node:util';
L12: import process$2, { 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@1.27.2/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
L15229: try {
L15230: await execa(packageManager || getPackageManager(), ["install"], {
L15231: cwd: projectPath,
...
L15241: }
L15242: const TEMPLATES_API_URL = process.env.MASTRA_TEMPLATES_API_URL || "https://mastra.ai/api/templates.json";
L15243: 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@1.27.2/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 } from 'node:util';
L12: import process$2, { stdout, stdin, platform, hrtime, execPath, execArgv } from 'node:process';
L13: import * as l from 'node:readline';
...
L86: // with no body, we should not to set Content-Type
L87: serializedBody === void 0 || // if serialized body is FormData; browser will correctly set Content-Type & boundary expression
L88: serializedBody instanceof FormData ? {} : {
...
L214: if (parseAs === "json" &
```

### 9. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-mastra@1.27.2/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@1.27.2/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@1.27.2/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L10337: // If `subprocess.stdin` is destroyed before being fully written to, it is considered aborted and should throw an error.
L10338: // This can happen for example when user called `subprocess.stdin.destroy()` before `subprocess.stdin.end()`.
L10339: // However, Node.js calls `subprocess.stdin.destroy()` on exit for cleanup purposes.
L10340: // https://github.[redacted]child_process.js#L278
L10341: // This is normal and should not throw an error.
...
L10346: // The only way to detect this is to spy on `subprocess.stdin._destroy()` by wrapping it.
L10347: // If `subprocess.exitCode` or `subprocess.signalCode` is set, it means `.destroy()` is being called by Node.js itself.
L10348: 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@1.27.2/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 } from 'node:util';
L12: import process$2, { stdout, stdin, platform, hrtime, execPath, execArgv } from 'node:process';
L13: import * as l from 'node:readline';
...
L86: // with no body, we should not to set Content-Type
L87: serializedBody === void 0 || // if serialized body is FormData; browser will correctly set Content-Type & boundary expression
L88: serializedBody instanceof FormData ? {} : {
...
L214: if (parseAs === "json" &
```

### 13. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-mastra@1.27.2/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 } from 'node:util';
L12: import process$2, { stdout, stdin, platform, hrtime, execPath, execArgv } from 'node:process';
L13: import * as l from 'node:readline';
...
L86: // with no body, we should not to set Content-Type
L87: serializedBody === void 0 || // if serialized body is FormData; browser will correctly set Content-Type & boundary expression
L88: serializedBody instanc
```

### 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@1.27.2/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
L10337: // If `subprocess.stdin` is destroyed before being fully written to, it is considered aborted and should throw an error.
L10338: // This can happen for example when user called `subprocess.stdin.destroy()` before `subprocess.stdin.end()`.
L10339: // However, Node.js calls `subprocess.stdin.destroy()` on exit for cleanup purposes.
L10340: // https://github.[redacted]child_process.js#L278
L10341: // This is normal and should not throw an error.
...
L10346: // The only way to detect this is to spy on `subprocess.stdin._destroy()` by wrapping it.
L10347: // If `subprocess.exitCode` or `subprocess.signalCode` is set, it means `.destroy()` is being called by Node.js itself.
L10348: 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:** 3
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 13
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 3

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** create-mastra
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.27.2
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-08-28T21:32:59.013Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-16T04:40:57.389Z
- **Known versions:** 27
- **Latest version:** 1.34.2
- **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:** 8
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,801,268 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/create-mastra/v/1.27.2>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra>)
- [Homepage](<https://mastra.ai/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra/issues>)