---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/encrata-cli"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/encrata-cli/report.md"
package: "encrata-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "encrata-cli@0.2.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.2.0"
---

# encrata-cli@0.2.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-4551 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Trusted malware advisory block
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 0.2.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-4551 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-4551 confirms this npm version as malicious. package.json declares \`"postinstall": "node install.js"\`, which runs at install time. install.js requires both \`child\_process\` and \`https\`, branches on \`process.platform\` to enumerate host details, and issues an outbound \`https.get(...)\` carrying the collected data...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Finished:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Download time:** Not available
- **Static scan time:** Not available
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** Not available

The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs.

## Security analysis

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

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to encrata-cli@0.2.0.

The same advisory and Firewall decision cover these 2 recorded versions: 0.1.0, 0.2.0.

- Avoid installing encrata-cli@0.2.0. Remove it from direct dependencies and check your lockfile for transitive copies.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
- If this version ran, investigate the affected machine and build environment. Rotate credentials it could access and rebuild from a trusted environment.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Osv Malicious Advisory
- **Category:** External Intel
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

package.json declares \`"postinstall": "node install.js"\`, which runs at install time. install.js requires both \`child\_process\` and \`https\`, branches on \`process.platform\` to enumerate host details, and issues an outbound \`https.get(...)\` carrying the collected data. This is the canonical install-time system-information exfiltration shape: child\_process to spawn host-info commands, platform-gated logic to pick the right binary per OS, and HTTPS egress to ship the result. There is no legitimate reason for a CLI's postinstall to gather host metadata and POST/GET it off-host. Installing this package on any machine (developer laptop, CI runner, build server) discloses host details to a remote endpoint and provides an install-time code-execution surface.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** encrata-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.2.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** Not available
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-05T06:40:32.007Z
- **Known versions:** 9
- **Latest version:** 0.12.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Encrata CLI — intelligence lookups from your terminal
- **Author:** Encrata
- **Maintainers:** encrata
- **Keywords:** encrata, osint, email-lookup, phone-lookup, domain-lookup, ip-lookup, darkweb, intelligence, cli
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=14
- **Artifact files:** 4
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 5,787 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/encrata-cli>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Encratahq/cli>)
- [Homepage](<https://encrata.com/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Encratahq/cli/issues>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-4551>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/encrata-cli/v/0.2.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/encrata-cli/v/0.1.0>)