---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/create-zuplo-api/v/7.8.18"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/create-zuplo-api/v/7.8.18.md"
package: "create-zuplo-api"
report_status: "published"
title: "create-zuplo-api@7.8.18 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "7.8.18"
---

# create-zuplo-api@7.8.18 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:** 7.8.18
- **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.

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.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 78.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-27T19:05:40.539Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-27T19:06:45.504Z
- **Download time:** 512 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1202 ms
- **AI review time:** 63251 ms
- **Total time:** 64965 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-zuplo-api command can install first-party agent skills and project MCP settings after the user selects agents. There is no install-hook mutation of a global agent control surface.

- **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.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-27T19:06:45.504Z

### AI review details

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

- **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.

- **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.

- **Files touched:** .mcp.json, .claude/settings.json, CLAUDE.md, .claude/skills, .agents/skills, .cursor/skills, .windsurf/skills

- **Network endpoints:** https://codeload.github.com/zuplo/tools/tar.gz/main, https://dev.zuplo.com/mcp/docs

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 78.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **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.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to create-zuplo-api@7.8.18.

- Review the evidence and your use of create-zuplo-api@7.8.18 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-zuplo-api@7.8.18/dist/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L7: depsCount: ${u},
L8: deps: ${p}}`};const b={keyword:"dependencies",type:"object",schemaType:"object",error:u.error,code(t){const[u,p]=splitDependencies(t);validatePropertyDeps(t,u);validateSchemaDeps(t...
L9: /*!
```

### 3. High: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-zuplo-api@7.8.18/dist/index.js>)

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
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
```

### 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-zuplo-api@7.8.18/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
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
...
L7: depsCount: ${u},
L8: deps: ${p}}`};const b={keyword:"dependencies",type:"object",schemaType:"object",error:u.error,code(t){const[u,p]=splitDependencies(t);validatePropertyDeps(t,u);validateSchemaDeps(t...
L9: /*!
```

### 8. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-zuplo-api@7.8.18/dist/index.js>)

Source appears to send environment or credential material to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
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: missingProperty: ${g},
L7: depsCount: ${u},
L8: deps: ${
```

### 9. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-zuplo-api@7.8.18/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L59: * Released under the MIT License.
L60: */t.exports=function(t){if(typeof t==="number"){return t-t===0}if(typeof t==="string"&&t.trim()!==""){return Number.isFinite?Number.isFinite(+t):isFinite(+t)}return false}},6173:(t...
L61: /*! queue-microtask. MIT License. Feross Aboukhadijeh <https://feross.org/opensource> */
L62: let u;t.exports=typeof queueMicrotask==="function"?queueMicrotask.bind(typeof window!=="undefined"?window:global):t=>(u||(u=Promise.resolve())).then(t).catch((t=>setTimeout((()=>{t...
...
L71: * Released under the MIT License.
L72: */const m=p(7311);const toRegexRange=(t,u,p)=>{if(m(t)===false){throw new TypeError("toRegexRange: expected the first argument to be a number")}if(u===void 0||t===u){return String(...
```

### 10. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-zuplo-api@7.8.18/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.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
```

### 11. High: Trigger Reachable Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-zuplo-api@7.8.18/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable credential exfiltration 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} !== und
```

### 12. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-zuplo-api@7.8.18/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.bin -> dist/index.js
L59: * Released under the MIT License.
L60: */t.exports=function(t){if(typeof t==="number"){return t-t===0}if(typeof t==="string"&&t.trim()!==""){return Number.isFinite?Number.isFinite(+t):isFinite(+t)}return false}},6173:(t...
L61: /*! queue-microtask. MIT License. Feross Aboukhadijeh <https://feross.org/opensource> */
L62: let u;t.exports=typeof queueMicrotask==="function"?queueMicrotask.bind(typeof window!=="undefined"?window:global):t=>(u||(u=Promise.resolve())).then(t).catch((t=>setTimeout((()=>{t...
...
L71: * Released under the MIT License.
L72: */const m=p(7311);const toRegexRange=(t,u,p)=>{if(m(t)===false){throw new TypeError("toRegexRange: expected the first argument to be a number")}if(u===void 0|
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 15. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 95.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

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

- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 20
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** create-zuplo-api
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 7.8.18
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-27T19:03:57.963Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T01:55:42.292Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-03T23:03:48.761Z
- **Known versions:** 115
- **Latest version:** 7.13.13
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Create Zuplo API with one command
- **Author:** Zuplo
- **Maintainers:** ntotten, zuplo-integrations, vazexqi
- **Keywords:** api, openapi, zuplo
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=24.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 48
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 976,481 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/create-zuplo-api/v/7.8.18>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/zuplo/core>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/zuplo/core#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/zuplo/core/issues>)
