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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/nebula-notebook/v/0.2.38"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/nebula-notebook/v/0.2.38.md"
package: "nebula-notebook"
report_status: "published"
title: "nebula-notebook@0.2.38 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.2.38"
---

# nebula-notebook@0.2.38 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 17 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:** 0.2.38
- **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 install hook is guarded against execution from node\_modules and only performs transparent development setup in package-owned checkout subdirectories. Static inspection found no concrete malicious chain or unauthorized control-surface modification.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-05T20:18:11.398Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-05T20:20:11.636Z
- **Download time:** 754 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3801 ms
- **AI review time:** 115682 ms
- **Total time:** 120238 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 confirmed malicious attack surface was established. The install hook skips registry dependency installs and the launcher starts the packaged server.

- **Trigger:** Installing from a source checkout or explicitly running the command-line launcher.

- **Impact:** No unconsented persistence, exfiltration, or broad project mutation was found.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-05T20:20:11.636Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Checkout-only subpackage setup and local server launch.

- **Rationale:** The install hook is guarded against execution from node\_modules and only performs transparent development setup in package-owned checkout subdirectories. Static inspection found no concrete malicious chain or unauthorized control-surface modification.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest runs a postinstall script, so installation behavior was inspected., The postinstall exits when installed under node\_modules; its package-manager calls are limited to checkout subdirectories., The executable only launches the bundled server with the caller's arguments and environment., The required frontend bundle contains a normal module-preload loader; no hidden install-time payload was found.

- **Evidence against:** No self-dependency, credential collection, secret exfiltration, or foreign agent-control-surface mutation was found., The postinstall is transparent and does not run for a registry dependency installation., Network activity inspected is package-aligned update checking or user-facing application functionality.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to nebula-notebook@0.2.38.

- Review the evidence and your use of nebula-notebook@0.2.38 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: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nebula-notebook@0.2.38/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.cjs
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nebula-notebook@0.2.38/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.cjs
```

### 3. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. Medium: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/assets/index-BnQLGXqd.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nebula-notebook@0.2.38/dist/assets/index-BnQLGXqd.js>)

Package contains a possible secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = generic_password
severity = medium
line = 816
```

### 5. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/nebula-notebook.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nebula-notebook@0.2.38/bin/nebula-notebook.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L10: */
L11: import { spawn } from 'child_process';
L12: import path from 'path';
```

### 6. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package source references shell execution.

### 7. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** dist/assets/services-shim-CeNGM1z\_.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nebula-notebook@0.2.38/dist/assets/services-shim-CeNGM1z_.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L19: `+a+`return __p;
L20: `;var c;try{c=new Function(u,"_",a)}catch(p){throw p.source=a,p}var f=function(p){return c.call(this,p,Me)};return f.source="function("+u+`){
L21: `+a+"}",f}function ah(n,e,t){e=pn(e);var i=e.length;if(!i)return Ge(t)?t.call(n):t;for(var s=0;s<i;s++){var a=n==null?void 0:n[e[s]];a===void 0&&(a=t,s=i),n=Ge(a)?a.call(n):a}retur...
```

### 8. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/assets/index-D4OyDYHa.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nebula-notebook@0.2.38/dist/assets/index-D4OyDYHa.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{z as Vs,D as Es,a as q,o as Yi,t as He,h as As,$ as bt,n as vt,W as de,A as Me,r as $e,u as ae,k as Gi,f as qe,S as xt,N as Ji,e as Is,O as ps,Q as Xi}from"./services-shim-C...
```

### 9. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 10. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 11. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 12. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** bin/nebula-notebook.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nebula-notebook@0.2.38/bin/nebula-notebook.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: bin/nebula-notebook.js spawns node-server/dist/index.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L10: */
L11: import { spawn } from 'child_process';
L12: import path from 'path';
...
L15: 
L16: const __dirname = path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
L17: const serverEntry = path.join(__dirname, '..', 'node-server', 'dist', 'index.js');
...
L26: stdio: 'inherit',
L27: env: process.env,
L28: });
```

### 13. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nebula-notebook@0.2.38/scripts/postinstall.cjs>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L28: // and the prepare builds are skipped.
L29: execSync('npm install --include=dev', { cwd: path.join(root, dir), stdio: 'inherit' });
L30: } catch {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 16. 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.

### 17. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/assets/index-BnQLGXqd.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nebula-notebook@0.2.38/dist/assets/index-BnQLGXqd.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_path_work_budget_exceeded; limitedFiles = 8
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 17
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 27
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 17

### Published dependency entries
- @fastify/cors ^11.2.0 (Dependency)
- @fastify/multipart ^9.4.0 (Dependency)
- @fastify/static ^9.0.0 (Dependency)
- @fastify/websocket ^11.2.0 (Dependency)
- @homebridge/node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch ^0.14.0 (Dependency)
- @xterm/addon-clipboard ^0.2.0 (Dependency)
- @xterm/addon-webgl ^0.19.0 (Dependency)
- better-sqlite3 ^11.0.0 (Dependency)
- fastify ^5.8.2 (Dependency)
- jsonwebtoken ^9.0.2 (Dependency)
- nebula-autocomplete file:packages/autocomplete (Dependency)
- otplib ^12.0.1 (Dependency)
- qrcode-terminal ^0.12.0 (Dependency)
- uuid ^9.0.1 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.16.0 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.9.0 (Dependency)
- zeromq ^6.4.2 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** nebula-notebook
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.2.38
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-05T11:55:42.974Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-04T02:52:25.750Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-02T18:46:26.752Z
- **Known versions:** 69
- **Latest version:** 0.2.95
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** AI-native notebook computing environment — real Jupyter kernels, real filesystem, built to be driven by agents (Claude Code / Codex) via MCP
- **Maintainers:** jzthree
- **Keywords:** notebook, jupyter, ai, agent, mcp, claude, kernel
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 208
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 7,654,873 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/nebula-notebook/v/0.2.38>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/jzhoulab/nebula-notebook>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/jzhoulab/nebula-notebook#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/jzhoulab/nebula-notebook/issues>)
