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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/create-mastra/v/1.28.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/create-mastra/v/1.28.0.md"
package: "create-mastra"
report_status: "published"
title: "create-mastra@1.28.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.28.0"
---

# create-mastra@1.28.0 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:** 1.28.0
- **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.

This is not malicious install-hook abuse, but its default, user-triggered installation of agent skills is a concrete guarded extension-lifecycle risk. The telemetry is a privacy concern but does not establish credential exfiltration.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-13T00:49:44.522Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-13T00:51:00.754Z
- **Download time:** 509 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1260 ms
- **AI review time:** 74462 ms
- **Total time:** 76232 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:** When a user runs create-mastra, it can automatically install first-party skills for detected coding agents in the newly generated project. It also sends default telemetry containing hostname and system metadata.

- **Trigger:** A user runs the create-mastra CLI without --no-skills or telemetry opt-out.

- **Impact:** A remote skills package can modify detected agent extension surfaces; telemetry exposes device and environment metadata.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/index.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-13T00:51:00.754Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Default agent-skill installation through npx plus telemetry reporting.

- **Rationale:** This is not malicious install-hook abuse, but its default, user-triggered installation of agent skills is a concrete guarded extension-lifecycle risk. The telemetry is a privacy concern but does not establish credential exfiltration.

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

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

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 86.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** Running the CLI starts telemetry that reports host and system metadata to a hardcoded PostHog host unless disabled., The generated-project setup enables skills by default, detects installed coding agents, and runs an unattended npx skills add command for mastra-ai/skills., The manifest exposes dist/index.js as the create-mastra executable, making this behavior reachable when the user runs the CLI.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no preinstall, install, or postinstall lifecycle hook., Credential persistence and platform token writes occur only in the interactive, opt-in observability flow., The inspected command creates a project and installs first-party skills; no secret harvesting, destructive action, or hidden payload was found.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to create-mastra@1.28.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of create-mastra@1.28.0 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@1.28.0/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@1.28.0/dist/index.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L11: import require$$4, { styleText, debuglog, stripVTControlCharacters, inspect, promisify, callbackify, aborted } 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@1.28.0/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
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@1.28.0/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 } 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@1.28.0/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: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-mastra@1.28.0/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}) => {
```

### 11. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-mastra@1.28.0/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 } 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" &
```

### 12. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-mastra@1.28.0/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 } 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
```

### 13. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-mastra@1.28.0/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
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
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 17. 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:** 1.28.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-09-09T05:55:10.723Z
- **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:** 7
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,701,018 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/create-mastra/v/1.28.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra>)
- [Homepage](<https://mastra.ai/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra/issues>)