---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/elephant-tusk-runner/v/1.0.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/elephant-tusk-runner/v/1.0.2.md"
package: "elephant-tusk-runner"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "elephant-tusk-runner@1.0.2 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.0.2"
---

# elephant-tusk-runner@1.0.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 13 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Under Review
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 1.0.2
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

Static analysis flagged 13 finding(s) at 93.0% confidence. This version is warn-only unless an AI or security-team review confirms malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-09T08:25:49.407Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-09T08:25:50.362Z
- **Download time:** 260 ms
- **Static scan time:** 694 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 955 ms

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## 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:** bin/tusk.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/elephant-tusk-runner@1.0.2/bin/tusk.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L9: 
L10: import { spawn, execSync, exec } from 'node:child_process';
L11: import path from 'node:path';
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/tusk.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/elephant-tusk-runner@1.0.2/bin/tusk.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L39: 
L40: const execAsync = promisify(exec);
L41: const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
```

### 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:** server.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/elephant-tusk-runner@1.0.2/server.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: // process.env.NODE_PTY_FORCE_WINPTY = '1';
L2: import express from 'express';
L3: // import { exec } from 'child_process';
L4: import { spawn, exec, execSync } from 'child_process';
...
L10: import AdmZip from 'adm-zip';
L11: import net from 'net';
L12: import { MongoClient } from 'mongodb';
```

### 8. High: Spawned Bundled Service Listener
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 78.0%
- **Path:** bin/tusk.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/elephant-tusk-runner@1.0.2/bin/tusk.js>)

Source launches a detached bundled service that exposes a broad-bound HTTP listener.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Detached bundled service listener: bin/tusk.js spawns server.js; helper exposes a broad-bound HTTP listener.
L9: 
L10: import { spawn, execSync, exec } from 'node:child_process';
L11: import path from 'node:path';
...
L41: const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
L42: const __dirname = path.dirname(__filename);
L43: const rootDirectory = path.resolve(__dirname, '..');
...
L56: let localLicenseTokenValue = '';
L57: const remoteLicenseServerEndpoint = 'https://coodesrc.com/tusk/status.php';
L58: const localLicenseFilePath = path.join(process.env.HOME || process.env.USERPROFILE || '.', '.tusk-license');
L59: 
...
L73: headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
L74: body: JSON.stringify({
```

### 9. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** bin/tusk.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/elephant-tusk-runner@1.0.2/bin/tusk.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L723: 
L724: // Run degit via npx to support monorepos, subfolders, and normal repos seamlessly
L725: const scaffoldProcess = spawn(
L726: 'npx',
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 12. 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.

### 13. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** bin/threat.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/elephant-tusk-runner@1.0.2/bin/threat.js>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = elephant-tusk-runner@1.0.1
matchedIdentity = npm:ZWxlcGhhbnQtdHVzay1ydW5uZXI:1.0.1
similarity = 0.500
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 19
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 19

### Published dependency entries
- @seald-io/nedb ^4.1.2 (Dependency)
- @xterm/addon-fit ^0.11.0 (Dependency)
- @xterm/xterm ^6.0.0 (Dependency)
- adm-zip ^0.6.0 (Dependency)
- cors ^2.8.6 (Dependency)
- dotenv ^17.4.2 (Dependency)
- express ^5.2.1 (Dependency)
- ink ^5.0.0 (Dependency)
- ink-spinner ^5.0.0 (Dependency)
- mongodb ^7.5.0 (Dependency)
- mongoose ^9.8.1 (Dependency)
- multer ^2.2.0 (Dependency)
- mysql2 ^3.23.1 (Dependency)
- node-fetch ^3.3.2 (Dependency)
- node-pty ^1.1.0 (Dependency)
- open ^11.0.0 (Dependency)
- react ^18.2.0 (Dependency)
- terminal-image ^5.0.1 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.21.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** elephant-tusk-runner
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.2
- **License:** ISC
- **Version published:** 2026-08-09T08:23:59.443Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-07T00:35:08.254Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-11T11:48:11.853Z
- **Known versions:** 7
- **Latest version:** 1.0.7
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** CLI Terminal Dashboard using Tusk runner. With user interface built into it - 'elephant tusk \<port\>' for UI.
- **Maintainers:** tech\_bros
- **Keywords:** ink, cli, tui, react, terminal
- **Artifact files:** 9
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 239,591 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/elephant-tusk-runner/v/1.0.2>)