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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/fiftyone.geolocation/v/4.5.98"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/fiftyone.geolocation/v/4.5.98.md"
package: "fiftyone.geolocation"
report_status: "published"
title: "fiftyone.geolocation@4.5.98 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "4.5.98"
---

# fiftyone.geolocation@4.5.98 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 12 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Telemetry warning (can be blocked)
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Telemetry
- **Selected version:** 4.5.98
- **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.

The package’s default pipeline enables runtime usage sharing that transmits identifying request data and permits all evidence fields, with no disclosure found in the README. This is suspicious telemetry; the test-only eval and lack of install hooks do not indicate malicious execution.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-02T12:24:29.955Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-02T12:25:27.605Z
- **Download time:** 279 ms
- **Static scan time:** 418 ms
- **AI review time:** 56952 ms
- **Total time:** 57650 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:** Default runtime usage sharing sends request evidence to the vendor’s analytics endpoint.

- **Trigger:** The application builds and processes a pipeline using the default GeoLocationPipelineBuilder options.

- **Impact:** Request evidence may include identifying or sensitive application data; sharing is enabled unless callers opt out.

- **Evidence paths:** geoLocationPipelineBuilder.js, .lpm-dependency-evidence-da85a60f-7f46-4738-90cf-c4ed592d2cb0/2/npm-linux/shareUsage.js, .lpm-dependency-evidence-da85a60f-7f46-4738-90cf-c4ed592d2cb0/2/npm-linux/shareUsageEvidenceKeyFilter.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-02T12:25:27.605Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The builder adds ShareUsage by default. Its default filter permits all evidence, including client IP and session ID, and sends batches to devices-v4.51degrees.com.

- **Rationale:** The package’s default pipeline enables runtime usage sharing that transmits identifying request data and permits all evidence fields, with no disclosure found in the README. This is suspicious telemetry; the test-only eval and lack of install hooks do not indicate malicious execution.

- **Network endpoints:** devices-v4.51degrees.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Unknown

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The pipeline builder enables ShareUsage by default and adds it to the pipeline unless explicitly disabled., With default filter options, the usage component permits all evidence fields; it also extracts client IP and session ID., The component sends batched usage data to devices-v4.51degrees.com.

- **Evidence against:** The package has no install lifecycle scripts; its manifest scripts are for testing, linting, and type checking., The import entry point only exports the geolocation classes., The flagged eval is a compatibility check in a test file, not runtime package code.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to fiftyone.geolocation@4.5.98.

- Review the evidence and your use of fiftyone.geolocation@4.5.98 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: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** tests/geoLocationCloud.test.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/fiftyone.geolocation@4.5.98/tests/geoLocationCloud.test.js>)

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L65: try {
L66: eval('async () => {}');
L67: } catch (e) {
```

### 3. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** tests/geoLocationCloud.test.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/fiftyone.geolocation@4.5.98/tests/geoLocationCloud.test.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L22: 
L23: const path = require('path');
L24:
```

### 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. Critical: Remote Response Code Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 98.0%
- **Path:** tests/geoLocationCloud.test.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/fiftyone.geolocation@4.5.98/tests/geoLocationCloud.test.js>)

Source passes code obtained from a remote response into a dynamic execution sink.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L9: * If a copy of the EUPL was not distributed with this file, You can obtain
L10: * one at https://opensource.org/licenses/EUPL-1.2.
L11: *
...
L24: 
L25: const GeoLocation = require(path.resolve(__dirname, '..'));
L26: const myResourceKey = process.env.RESOURCE_KEY || '!!YOUR_RESOURCE_KEY!!';
L27: 
...
L65: try {
L66: eval('async () => {}');
L67: } catch (e) {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 10. 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.

### 11. Low: Copyleft License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest declares a copyleft-style license.

### 12. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** examples/configureFromFile.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/fiftyone.geolocation@4.5.98/examples/configureFromFile.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 2
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 4
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 13
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 4

### Published dependency entries
- fiftyone.pipeline.cloudrequestengine 4.4.x (Dependency)
- fiftyone.pipeline.core 4.4.x (Dependency)
- fiftyone.pipeline.engines 4.4.x (Dependency)
- fiftyone.pipeline.engines.fiftyone 4.4.x (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** fiftyone.geolocation
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 4.5.98
- **License:** EUPL-1.2
- **Version published:** 2026-11-02T12:10:32.073Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-11-02T12:25:27.605Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T05:51:11.870Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 4.5.100
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Perform reverse geocoding using longitude and latitude to populate postal addresses
- **Author:** 51Degrees Engineering
- **Maintainers:** eugenedorfman, roman.s, jwrosewell, jamesr51d
- **Keywords:** 51Degrees, geolocation, location, latitude, longitude, reverse-geocode
- **Artifact files:** 31
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 241,709 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/fiftyone.geolocation/v/4.5.98>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/51Degrees/51degrees-node>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/51Degrees/51degrees-node#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/51Degrees/51degrees-node/issues>)
