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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/motionrender/v/0.2.5"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/motionrender/v/0.2.5.md"
package: "motionrender"
report_status: "published"
title: "motionrender@0.2.5 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.2.5"
---

# motionrender@0.2.5 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 14 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.2.5
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The flagged credential and network behavior belongs to the AI provider feature: credentials are sent in provider requests, with provider APIs as their defaults and configurable endpoints. Process execution is used for FFmpeg rendering; no install-time hook, unrelated collector, or automatic secret collection was found.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-04T19:43:02.744Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-04T19:44:04.161Z
- **Download time:** 1282 ms
- **Static scan time:** 4357 ms
- **AI review time:** 55778 ms
- **Total time:** 61417 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:** No attack was identified; the reviewed network and process behavior supports the package's rendering and AI authoring features.

- **Trigger:** Users invoke CLI commands or call package functionality; AI requests occur when the corresponding feature is used.

- **Impact:** No malicious impact identified in the inspected source.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-04T19:44:04.161Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Provider credentials are sent with requests to the selected provider endpoint, and rendering launches FFmpeg with rendering arguments. Worker requests use the supplied worker URL and token.

- **Rationale:** The flagged credential and network behavior belongs to the AI provider feature: credentials are sent in provider requests, with provider APIs as their defaults and configurable endpoints. Process execution is used for FFmpeg rendering; no install-time hook, unrelated collector, or automatic secret collection was found.

- **Files touched:** package.json, dist/cli.js, dist/index.js

- **Network endpoints:** https://api.anthropic.com, https://api.groq.com/openai/v1, https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1, http://localhost:3001/v1

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest describes a motion graphics rendering engine and exposes Node and command-line entry points., The Anthropic provider uses an Anthropic API key and defaults to api.anthropic.com for its requests., The CLI exposes rendering and AI authoring as commands; no automatic credential collection or unrelated execution path was identified.

- **Evidence against:** Provider base URLs can be overridden through configuration or environment variables, so a user-configured endpoint can receive that provider's credential.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to motionrender@0.2.5.

- Review the evidence and your use of motionrender@0.2.5 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. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/motionrender@0.2.5/dist/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L865: // packages/core/src/media.ts
L866: import { spawn as spawn2 } from "node:child_process";
L867: import { mkdir, readFile as readFile2, stat as stat2, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
```

### 2. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** studio/assets/index-BGdqA-kT.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/motionrender@0.2.5/studio/assets/index-BGdqA-kT.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L9: `).replace(Gv,"")}function zh(t,l){return l=Nh(l),Nh(t)===l}function xt(t,l,e,a,n,u){switch(e){case"children":if(typeof a=="string")l==="body"||l==="textarea"&&a===""||Ma(t,a);else...
L10: `)}):null]})]})})}const p1=O.forwardRef(function({detail:m,startFrame:x},r){const E=O.useRef(null),M=O.useRef(null),[D,V]=O.useState(x),[B,G]=O.useState(!1),[T,d]=O.useState(""),[C...
```

### 3. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/motionrender@0.2.5/dist/cli.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1486: const list = segments.map((s) => `file '${s.replace(/\\/g, "/").replace(/'/g, "'\\''")}'`).join("\n");
L1487: return import("node:fs/promises").then((fs) => fs.writeFile(listFile, list)).then(() => run(["-y", "-f", "concat", "-safe", "0", "-i", listFile, ...audioCodec ? audioMixArgs(audio,...
L1488: }
```

### 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/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/motionrender@0.2.5/dist/cli.js>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1399: getFfprobePath = () => {
L1400: if (process.env.OVE_FFPROBE_PATH) return process.env.OVE_FFPROBE_PATH;
L1401: if (existsSync(localFfprobePath)) return localFfprobePath;
...
L1405: RELEASE_TAG = "b6.1.1";
L1406: BASE_URL = `https://github.com/eugeneware/ffmpeg-static/releases/download/${RELEASE_TAG}`;
L1407: ensureFfmpegPromise = null;
...
L1411: // packages/ffmpeg/src/index.ts
L1412: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L1413: import { once } from "node:events";
```

### 8. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/motionrender@0.2.5/dist/cli.js>)

Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration.
dist/cli.js:
return import("node:fs/promises").then((fs) => fs.writeFile(listFile, list)).then(() => run(["-y", "-f", "concat", "-safe", "0", "-i", listFile, ...audioCodec ? audioMixArgs(audio,...
import { mkdir, readFile as readFile2, stat as stat2, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
await writeFile(file2, JSON.stringify(measured));
import { mkdir as mkdir2, readdir as readdir2, rename, rm as rm2, stat as stat3, writeFile as writeFile2 } from "node:fs/promises";
await writeFile2(join5(scratch, complete), "");
import { readFile as readFile4, writeFile as writeFile3 } from "node:fs/promises";
await writeFile3(output2, await renderFram
```

### 9. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/motionrender@0.2.5/dist/cli.js>)

Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L268: try {
L269: list = JSON.parse(list);
L270: } catch {
...
L878: });
L879: sceneSchema = z3.object({ grade: gradeSchema.optional().describe("Colour grading for the whole scene (fixed layers excluded)."), id: z3.string().min(1), name: z3.string().min(1), s...
L880: assetSchema = z3.object({ id: z3.string().min(1), type: z3.enum(["image", "video", "audio", "font", "svg", "captions", "lottie"]), src: z3.string().min(1), family: z3.string().min(...
...
L1219: cacheKinds = ["media", "video", "sfx"];
L1220: cacheRoot = () => process.env.OVE_CACHE_DIR ?? join(tmpdir(), "ove-video-cache");
L1221: cacheDir = (kind) => join(cacheRoot(), kind);
...
L1278: import { existsSync, mkdirSync, chmodSync, createWriteStream, unlinkSync, renameSync } from "node:fs";
L1279: import { spawnSync } from "node:c
```

### 10. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/motionrender@0.2.5/dist/cli.js>)

Source spawns a local helper that also contains network and dynamic execution context; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Cross-file remote execution chain: dist/cli.js spawns dist/index.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L268: try {
L269: list = JSON.parse(list);
L270: } catch {
...
L878: });
L879: sceneSchema = z3.object({ grade: gradeSchema.optional().describe("Colour grading for the whole scene (fixed layers excluded)."), id: z3.string().min(1), name: z3.string().min(1), s...
L880: assetSchema = z3.object({ id: z3.string().min(1), type: z3.enum(["image", "video", "audio", "font", "svg", "captions", "lottie"]), src: z3.string().min(1), family: z3.string().min(...
...
L1219: cacheKinds = ["media", "video", "sfx"];
L1220: cacheRoot = () => process.env.OVE_CACHE_DIR ?? join(tmpdir(), "ove-video-cache");
L1221: cacheDir = (kind) => join(cacheRoot(), kind);
...
L1278: import { exist
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 12. Low: Telemetry
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 14. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

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

- **Dependencies:** 4
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 3
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 7

### Published dependency entries
- bullmq ^5.81.5 (Dependency)
- pg ^8.0.0 (Dependency)
- playwright ^1.64.1 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.6.7 (Dependency)
- @types/node \>=22 (PeerDependency)
- esbuild \>=0.20 (PeerDependency)
- react \>=18 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** motionrender
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.2.5
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-11-04T18:22:40.919Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-11-03T18:00:05.653Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T19:44:06.114Z
- **Known versions:** 5
- **Latest version:** 0.2.9
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** JSON-first, frame-deterministic motion graphics video engine: render compositions to MP4, WebM, ProRes, GIF or PNG frames from Node or the command line.
- **Maintainers:** hamathopc
- **Keywords:** motionrender, motion-graphics, video, render, remotion-alternative, ffmpeg, json, animation, canvas, template
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22
- **Artifact files:** 230
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 6,671,971 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/motionrender/v/0.2.5>)
