create-zuplo-api@7.8.18
Create Zuplo API with one command
AI Security Review
scanned 1mo ago · by lpm-firewall-aiAgent configuration is an explicit, user-gated CLI feature of this scaffolder, not an npm install hook or hidden exfiltration path. It still enables project MCP servers and installs unpinned first-party agent skills, so it is a guarded agent capability rather than a clean no-op.
Static reason
High-risk behavior combination matched malicious policy.
Trigger
User runs the create-zuplo-api CLI and selects one or more agents, or passes --agents.
Impact
The new project trusts Zuplo docs MCP and, for Claude, enables all project MCP servers plus zuplo-tools plugins. Skills come from a moving GitHub branch rather than a pinned release.
Mechanism
installAgentConfigs writes .mcp.json and per-agent instruction or settings files in the new project, and may fetch SKILL.md files from the unpinned zuplo/tools main tarball.
AI rationale
Agent configuration is an explicit, user-gated CLI feature of this scaffolder, not an npm install hook or hidden exfiltration path. It still enables project MCP servers and installs unpinned first-party agent skills, so it is a guarded agent capability rather than a clean no-op.
Evidence
dist/index.js.mcp.json.claude/settings.jsonCLAUDE.md.claude/skills.agents/skills.cursor/skills.windsurf/skills
Network endpoints2
codeload.github.com/zuplo/tools/tar.gz/maindev.zuplo.com/mcp/docs
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Suspicious at 78.0% confidence as Dangerous Capability with medium false-positive risk.
Evidence for warning
- The create-zuplo-api bin prompts which AI agents to configure, or accepts --agents, and only then writes agent files into the new project.
- Claude setup writes .claude/settings.json that enables zuplo-tools plugins and enableAllProjectMcpServers, plus a project .mcp.json for the Zuplo docs MCP.
- When non-Claude agents are selected, the CLI downloads an unpinned zuplo/tools main tarball and copies SKILL.md files into that agent's skill directory.
Evidence against
- package.json has no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook; agent writes run only from the explicit CLI.
- Non-interactive runs set agents to an empty list and skip setup.
- The MCP URL is the vendor docs endpoint https://dev.zuplo.com/mcp/docs, and writes stay inside the newly created project directory.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoEnvironmentVarsEvalFilesystemNetwork
HighEntropyStrings
Source & flagged code
8 flaggeddist/index.jsView file
1#!/usr/bin/env node
L2: (()=>{var t={7213:(t,u,p)=>{"use strict";Object.defineProperty(u,"__esModule",{value:true});u.createFileSystemAdapter=u.FILE_SYSTEM_ADAPTER=void 0;const m=p(9896);u.FILE_SYSTEM_ADA...
L3: || (${w} == "string" && ${g} && ${g} == +${g})`).assign(E,(0,b._)`+${g}`);return;case"integer":m.elseIf((0,b._)`${w} === "boolean" || ${g} === null
L4: || (${w} === "string" && ${g} && ${g} == +${g} && !(${g} % 1))`).assign(E,(0,b._)`+${g}`);return;case"boolean":m.elseIf((0,b._)`${g} === "false" || ${g} === 0 || ${g} === null`).as...
L5: || ${w} === "boolean" || ${g} === null`).assign(E,(0,b._)`[${g}]`)}}}function assignParentData({gen:t,parentData:u,parentDataProperty:p},m){t.if((0,b._)`${u} !== undefined`,(()=>t....
L6: missingProperty: ${g},
L7: depsCount: ${u},
L8: deps: ${
Critical
Credential Exfiltration
Source appears to send environment or credential material to an external endpoint.
dist/index.jsView on unpkg · L11Trigger-reachable chain: manifest.bin -> dist/index.js
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: (()=>{var t={7213:(t,u,p)=>{"use strict";Object.defineProperty(u,"__esModule",{value:true});u.createFileSystemAdapter=u.FILE_SYSTEM_ADAPTER=void 0;const m=p(9896);u.FILE_SYSTEM_ADA...
L3: || (${w} == "string" && ${g} && ${g} == +${g})`).assign(E,(0,b._)`+${g}`);return;case"integer":m.elseIf((0,b._)`${w} === "boolean" || ${g} === null
L4: || (${w} === "string" && ${g} && ${g} == +${g} && !(${g} % 1))`).assign(E,(0,b._)`+${g}`);return;case"boolean":m.elseIf((0,b._)`${g} === "false" || ${g} === 0 || ${g} === null`).as...
L5: || ${w} === "boolean" || ${g} === null`).assign(E,(0,b._)`[${g}]`)}}}function assignParentData({gen:t,parentData:u,parentDataProperty:p},m){t.if((0,b._)`${u} !== undefined`,(()=>t....
L6: m
Findings
2 Critical6 High3 Medium4 Low
CriticalCredential Exfiltrationdist/index.js
CriticalTrigger Reachable Dangerous Capabilitydist/index.js
HighChild Processdist/index.js
HighEvaldist/index.js
HighSame File Env Network Executiondist/index.js
HighCommand Output Exfiltrationdist/index.js
HighTrigger Reachable Credential Exfiltrationdist/index.js
HighTrigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltrationdist/index.js
MediumNetwork
MediumEnvironment Vars
MediumStructural Risk Force Deep Review
LowScripts Present
LowFilesystem
Low
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to create-zuplo-api@7.8.18.
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