---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/create-zuplo-api/v/7.8.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/create-zuplo-api/v/7.8.2.md"
package: "create-zuplo-api"
report_status: "published"
title: "create-zuplo-api@7.8.2 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "7.8.2"
---

# create-zuplo-api@7.8.2 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:** 7.8.2
- **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.

This is a user-run Zuplo scaffolder with no install hook, but choosing agents writes first-party AI-agent instruction and MCP files and pulls unpinned skill text from GitHub. That is an explicit agent-control capability, so it warrants a warning rather than a publish block.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 78.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-22T19:37:35.222Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-22T19:39:11.985Z
- **Download time:** 512 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1213 ms
- **AI review time:** 95037 ms
- **Total time:** 96763 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:** The create command can write AI-agent instruction files and MCP settings into the project the user is scaffolding, and it can download skill markdown from GitHub when agents are selected. Nothing runs from an npm install lifecycle.

- **Trigger:** A person runs the create-zuplo-api bin and selects agents in the prompt or passes --agents.

- **Impact:** The new project receives vendor skill text and an MCP endpoint. This is operator-selected project setup, not a silent install-time takeover of a global agent configuration.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-22T19:39:11.985Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The CLI fetches the unpinned zuplo/tools main tarball, keeps SKILL.md files, and writes project files such as .mcp.json, .claude/settings.json, and agent instruction files that reference the Zuplo docs MCP server.

- **Rationale:** This is a user-run Zuplo scaffolder with no install hook, but choosing agents writes first-party AI-agent instruction and MCP files and pulls unpinned skill text from GitHub. That is an explicit agent-control capability, so it warrants a warning rather than a publish block.

- **Files touched:** .mcp.json, .claude/settings.json, CLAUDE.md, .github/copilot-instructions.md, .cursorrules, .windsurfrules, AGENTS.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 published bin is a user-run CLI and package.json has no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook., When agents are chosen by prompt or --agents, the CLI writes .mcp.json, Claude settings, and agent instruction files into the new project., That path downloads the unpinned zuplo/tools main tarball and copies SKILL.md files into vendor agent skill directories., Generated MCP config sets enableAllProjectMcpServers and points zuplo\_docs at the Zuplo docs MCP URL.

- **Evidence against:** Agent setup is skipped when the user picks none, passes --agents none, or runs non-interactively without a selection., The download is size-capped and filtered to SKILL.md files from the zuplo GitHub repository., No credential harvest, hidden eval, or install-time mutation of a global agent directory was found.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to create-zuplo-api@7.8.2.

- Review the evidence and your use of create-zuplo-api@7.8.2 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-zuplo-api@7.8.2/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@7.8.2/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@7.8.2/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
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@7.8.2/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@7.8.2/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@7.8.2/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.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@7.8.2/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@7.8.2/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.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:** 7.8.2
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-22T19:34:10.996Z
- **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:** 47
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 967,478 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/create-zuplo-api/v/7.8.2>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/zuplo/core>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/zuplo/core#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/zuplo/core/issues>)
