ft-scout@5.0.7
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AI Security Review
scanned 2mo ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe package is not install-time malware, but its explicit dashboard feature contains an unauthenticated, cross-origin command-injection vulnerability. This warrants a warning and remediation before use.
Static reason
High-risk behavior combination matched malicious policy.
Trigger
The user runs the dashboard command and a web page or network client sends POST /api/cli/exec.
Impact
Arbitrary commands can run with the CLI user’s permissions, potentially reading or modifying the current project and user-accessible files.
Mechanism
Cross-origin shell command injection through an unauthenticated local dashboard API.
AI rationale
The package is not install-time malware, but its explicit dashboard feature contains an unauthenticated, cross-origin command-injection vulnerability. This warrants a warning and remediation before use.
Evidence
bin/src/server/server.jsbin/src/commands/dashboard.jsbin/ft.js.ft/auth.json
Network endpoints1
localhost:9120
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Suspicious at 96.0% confidence as Critical Vulnerability with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for warning
- The dashboard enables cross-origin requests from any origin and exposes an unauthenticated command endpoint.
- The endpoint appends an untrusted request field to a shell command and passes it to child_process.exec, allowing shell-command injection.
- Starting the dashboard is an explicit CLI action, so this is a serious user-invoked local web-server vulnerability rather than install-time malware.
Evidence against
- package.json has no preinstall, install, or postinstall lifecycle hook.
- The email helper is reached from the explicit signup flow and sends welcome or verification messages to the supplied signup address; no credential-harvesting exfiltration path was found.
- The package’s update install action is preceded by an interactive confirmation.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShell
HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings
Source & flagged code
14 flaggedbin/src/utils/firebaseAuth.jsView file
1patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 1
High
High Secret
Package contains a high-severity secret pattern.
bin/src/utils/firebaseAuth.jsView on unpkg · L11patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 1
High
Secret Pattern
Google API key in bin/src/utils/firebaseAuth.js
bin/src/utils/firebaseAuth.jsView on unpkg · L1bin/src/server/server.jsView file
3import path from 'path';
L4: import { exec } from 'child_process';
L5: import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
High
Child Process
Package source references child process execution.
bin/src/server/server.jsView on unpkg · L3Findings
2 Critical10 High4 Medium5 Low
CriticalCredential Exfiltrationbin/src/utils/email.js
CriticalTrigger Reachable Dangerous Capabilitybin/src/utils/email.js
HighHigh Secretbin/src/utils/firebaseAuth.js
HighChild Processbin/src/server/server.js
HighShellbin/src/commands/agent.js
HighSandbox Evasion Gated Capabilitybin/src/commands/setup.js
HighTrigger Reachable Credential Exfiltrationbin/src/utils/email.js
HighRuntime Package Installbin/src/server/server.js
HighShips High Entropy Blobfront-terrain-cli-1.0.0.tgz
HighSemantic Analysis Limitedbin/src/commands/agent.js#virtual:normalized:round1
HighSecret Patternbin/src/utils/firebaseAuth.js
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to ft-scout@5.0.7.
See all versions of ft-scout for other recorded verdicts.
- Review the evidence and your use of ft-scout@5.0.7 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.
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