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package: "node-fsagent"
report_status: "published"
title: "node-fsagent@4.685.74 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "4.685.74"
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# node-fsagent@4.685.74 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 3 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Staged Payload Carrier
- **Selected version:** 4.685.74
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

No executable attack path is established. package.json embeds a large opaque binary payload in keywords, but the package has no lifecycle hook or runtime entrypoint to activate it.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-14T07:31:53.483Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-14T07:32:49.097Z
- **Download time:** 255 ms
- **Static scan time:** 12 ms
- **AI review time:** 55346 ms
- **Total time:** 55614 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** No executable attack path is established. package.json embeds a large opaque binary payload in keywords, but the package has no lifecycle hook or runtime entrypoint to activate it.

- **Trigger:** None established; npm metadata parsing only.

- **Impact:** No confirmed execution, exfiltration, persistence, or destructive behavior; payload could be activated only by external code not present in this package.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, index.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-07-14T07:32:49.097Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Inert opaque payload stored in manifest keywords.

- **Rationale:** No active malicious behavior is reachable from this package, but the unexplained opaque payload is a concrete supply-chain risk indicator. Warn rather than block because there is no install-time or runtime execution path.

- **Files touched:** package.json, index.js

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Unknown

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for:** package.json contains 274 opaque base64-like keyword entries totaling 68,268 characters., Concatenated keyword data decodes to high-entropy binary with no readable format/header., The opaque metadata blob is an inert payload carrier with no in-package loader.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no lifecycle scripts, entrypoints, bin, dependencies, or exports., index.js exists but is empty (0 bytes)., No executable package source references the metadata blob, performs network access, or accesses files, environment, shells, or dynamic code.

## Public findings

### 1. Medium: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/node-fsagent@4.685.74/package.json>)

package.json contains 274 opaque base64-like keyword entries totaling 68,268 characters.

### 2. Medium: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 91.0%

Concatenated keyword data decodes to high-entropy binary with no readable format/header.

### 3. Medium: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 91.0%

The opaque metadata blob is an inert payload carrier with no in-package loader.

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

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** node-fsagent
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 4.685.74
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-07-13T20:49:03.681Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-13T20:10:04.187Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-07-15T07:46:18.791Z
- **Known versions:** 138
- **Latest version:** 0.0.1-security
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/node-fsagent/v/4.685.74>)