---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/nx/v/23.1.3"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/nx/v/23.1.3.md"
package: "nx"
report_status: "published"
title: "nx@23.1.3 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "23.1.3"
---

# nx@23.1.3 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 19 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Remote Code Execution
- **Selected version:** 23.1.3
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

A configured Nx Cloud workspace can trigger postinstall to retrieve and execute an Nx Cloud client bundle. The bundle URL and archive contents are supplied by the configured Cloud service.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 89.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-01T00:01:18.364Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-01T00:02:39.246Z
- **Download time:** 778 ms
- **Static scan time:** 11377 ms
- **AI review time:** 68726 ms
- **Total time:** 80882 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** A configured Nx Cloud workspace can trigger postinstall to retrieve and execute an Nx Cloud client bundle. The bundle URL and archive contents are supplied by the configured Cloud service.

- **Trigger:** Installing nx in a workspace with nx.json and Nx Cloud enabled.

- **Impact:** A compromised or malicious configured Cloud endpoint could cause code execution during dependency installation.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/bin/post-install.js, dist/src/nx-cloud/update-manager.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-01T00:02:39.246Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Postinstall remote bundle download, extraction, and dynamic require.

- **Rationale:** This is not evidence of intentional malware, but it is a concrete, automatic remote payload execution surface in the install lifecycle. The configuration gate reduces exposure but does not remove the supply-chain risk.

- **Files touched:** nx.json, .nx/cache/cloud, node\_modules/.cache/nx/cloud

- **Network endpoints:** https://cloud.nx.app

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 89.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Critical Vulnerability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** The package runs a postinstall hook automatically., Postinstall checks for an Nx workspace configured to use Nx Cloud., The updater accepts a URL from a verification response, downloads its archive, and loads the extracted bundle with require., Archive entries are written using server-provided names beneath the bundle directory.

- **Evidence against:** The automatic path is gated on the main Nx installation, an existing nx.json, and Nx Cloud being enabled., The inspected manifest has no runtime dependency on nx itself., No credential harvesting or unrelated data-exfiltration code was found in the inspected lifecycle path.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nx@23.1.3/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node -e "try{require('./dist/bin/post-install')}catch(e){}"
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nx@23.1.3/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node -e "try{require('./dist/bin/post-install')}catch(e){}"
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin/nx.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nx@23.1.3/dist/bin/nx.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L19: const strip_indents_1 = require("../src/utils/strip-indents");
L20: const child_process_1 = require("child_process");
L21: const module_1 = require("module");
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/utils/git-utils.index-filter.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nx@23.1.3/dist/src/utils/git-utils.index-filter.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L11: const { execSync } = require('child_process');
L12: // NOTE: Using env vars because Windows PowerShell has its own handling of quotes (") messes up quotes in args, even if escaped.
L13: const src = process.env.NX_IMPORT_SOURCE;
```

### 6. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/core/graph/runtime.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nx@23.1.3/dist/src/core/graph/runtime.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: (()=>{"use strict";var e,r={},t={};function n(e){var o=t[e];if(void 0!==o)return o.exports;var i=t[e]={exports:{}};return r[e](i,i.exports,n),i.exports}n.m=r,e=[],n.O=(r,t,o,i)=>{i...
```

### 7. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin/nx-cloud.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nx@23.1.3/dist/bin/nx-cloud.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: exports.invokeCommandWithNxCloudClient = invokeCommandWithNxCloudClient;
L5: const get_cloud_options_1 = require("../src/nx-cloud/utilities/get-cloud-options");
L6: const update_manager_1 = require("../src/nx-cloud/update-manager");
```

### 8. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/utils/git-utils.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nx@23.1.3/dist/src/utils/git-utils.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L17: const tslib_1 = require("tslib");
L18: const child_process_1 = require("child_process");
L19: const crypto = tslib_1.__importStar(require("crypto"));
...
L24: return new Promise((res, rej) => {
L25: (0, child_process_1.execFile)(file, args, { ...execOptions, windowsHide: true }, (err, stdout) => {
L26: if (err) {
...
L103: }
L104: async fetch(remote, ref) {
L105: return await this.execGit(['fetch', remote, ...(ref ? [ref] : [])]);
...
L166: if (source !== '') {
L167: const indexFilterCommand = `node ${quoteForShell((0, path_1.join)(__dirname, 'git-utils.index-filter.js'))}`;
L168: await this.execGit([
```

### 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. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/command-line/completion/scripts.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nx@23.1.3/dist/src/command-line/completion/scripts.js>)

Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L7: exports.generateScript = generateScript;
L8: const child_process_1 = require("child_process");
L9: const fs_1 = require("fs");
...
L12: exports.SHELLS = ['bash', 'zsh', 'fish', 'powershell'];
L13: /** Print the raw wrapper script to stdout — for scripting / custom rc paths. */
L14: function printCompletionScript(shell) {
L15: process.stdout.write(generateScript(shell));
L16: }
...
L79: case 'bash':
L80: return [(0, path_1.join)(home, '.bashrc')];
L81: case 'zsh':
...
L97: function resolvePowerShellProfiles() {
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 13. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/utils/ab-testing.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nx@23.1.3/dist/src/utils/ab-testing.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L116: catch (e) {
L117: if (process.env.NX_VERBOSE_LOGGING === 'true') {
L118: console.error(e);
...
L125: // Fallback on true as Package management doesn't support reading config for registry.
L126: // currently Bun doesn't support fetching config settings https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/7140
L127: return true;
...
L129: try {
L130: const stdout = (0, node_child_process_1.execSync)(pmc.getRegistryUrl, {
L131: encoding: 'utf-8',
```

### 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: Ships Wasm Module
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/native/nx.wasm32-wasi.wasm
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nx@23.1.3/dist/src/native/nx.wasm32-wasi.wasm>)

Package ships WebAssembly modules.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dist/src/native/nx.wasm32-wasi.wasm
kind = wasm_module
sizeBytes = 4061345
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 17. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/command-line/completion/scripts/fish.fish
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nx@23.1.3/dist/src/command-line/completion/scripts/fish.fish>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dist/src/command-line/completion/scripts/fish.fish
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 1538
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 18. 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.

### 19. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/adapter/ngcli-adapter.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nx@23.1.3/dist/src/adapter/ngcli-adapter.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 = 18
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 120
- **Optional dependencies:** 10
- **Peer dependencies:** 2
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 132

### Published dependency entries
- @emnapi/core 1.4.5 (Dependency)
- @emnapi/runtime 1.4.5 (Dependency)
- @emnapi/wasi-threads 1.0.4 (Dependency)
- @jest/diff-sequences 30.0.1 (Dependency)
- @napi-rs/wasm-runtime 0.2.4 (Dependency)
- @tybys/wasm-util 0.9.0 (Dependency)
- @yarnpkg/lockfile 1.1.0 (Dependency)
- @zkochan/js-yaml 0.0.7 (Dependency)
- agent-base 6.0.2 (Dependency)
- ansi-colors 4.1.3 (Dependency)
- ansi-regex 5.0.1 (Dependency)
- ansi-styles 4.3.0 (Dependency)
- argparse 2.0.1 (Dependency)
- asynckit 0.4.0 (Dependency)
- axios 1.18.1 (Dependency)
- balanced-match 4.0.3 (Dependency)
- base64-js 1.5.1 (Dependency)
- bl 4.1.0 (Dependency)
- brace-expansion 5.0.9 (Dependency)
- buffer 5.7.1 (Dependency)
- bundle-name 4.1.0 (Dependency)
- call-bind-apply-helpers 1.0.2 (Dependency)
- chalk 4.1.2 (Dependency)
- cli-cursor 3.1.0 (Dependency)
- cli-spinners 2.6.1 (Dependency)
- cliui 8.0.1 (Dependency)
- clone 1.0.4 (Dependency)
- color-convert 2.0.1 (Dependency)
- color-name 1.1.4 (Dependency)
- combined-stream 1.0.8 (Dependency)
- debug 4.4.3 (Dependency)
- default-browser 5.2.1 (Dependency)
- default-browser-id 5.0.0 (Dependency)
- defaults 1.0.4 (Dependency)
- define-lazy-prop 3.0.0 (Dependency)
- delayed-stream 1.0.0 (Dependency)
- dotenv 16.4.7 (Dependency)
- dotenv-expand 12.0.3 (Dependency)
- dunder-proto 1.0.1 (Dependency)
- ejs 5.0.1 (Dependency)
- emoji-regex 8.0.0 (Dependency)
- end-of-stream 1.4.5 (Dependency)
- enquirer 2.3.6 (Dependency)
- es-define-property 1.0.1 (Dependency)
- es-errors 1.3.0 (Dependency)
- es-object-atoms 1.1.1 (Dependency)
- es-set-tostringtag 2.1.0 (Dependency)
- escalade 3.2.0 (Dependency)
- escape-string-regexp 1.0.5 (Dependency)
- figures 3.2.0 (Dependency)
- flat 5.0.2 (Dependency)
- follow-redirects 1.16.0 (Dependency)
- form-data 4.0.6 (Dependency)
- fs-constants 1.0.0 (Dependency)
- function-bind 1.1.2 (Dependency)
- get-caller-file 2.0.5 (Dependency)
- get-intrinsic 1.3.0 (Dependency)
- get-proto 1.0.1 (Dependency)
- gopd 1.2.0 (Dependency)
- has-flag 4.0.0 (Dependency)
- has-symbols 1.1.0 (Dependency)
- has-tostringtag 1.0.2 (Dependency)
- hasown 2.0.4 (Dependency)
- https-proxy-agent 5.0.1 (Dependency)
- ieee754 1.2.1 (Dependency)
- ignore 7.0.5 (Dependency)
- inherits 2.0.4 (Dependency)
- is-docker 3.0.0 (Dependency)
- is-fullwidth-code-point 3.0.0 (Dependency)
- is-inside-container 1.0.0 (Dependency)
- is-interactive 1.0.0 (Dependency)
- is-unicode-supported 0.1.0 (Dependency)
- is-wsl 3.1.0 (Dependency)
- isexe 2.0.0 (Dependency)
- json5 2.2.3 (Dependency)
- jsonc-parser 3.3.1 (Dependency)
- lines-and-columns 2.0.3 (Dependency)
- log-symbols 4.1.0 (Dependency)
- math-intrinsics 1.1.0 (Dependency)
- mime-db 1.52.0 (Dependency)
- mime-types 2.1.35 (Dependency)
- mimic-fn 2.1.0 (Dependency)
- minimatch 10.2.5 (Dependency)
- minimist 1.2.8 (Dependency)
- ms 2.1.3 (Dependency)
- npm-run-path 4.0.1 (Dependency)
- once 1.4.0 (Dependency)
- onetime 5.1.2 (Dependency)
- open 10.1.0 (Dependency)
- ora 5.4.1 (Dependency)
- path-key 3.1.1 (Dependency)
- picocolors 1.1.1 (Dependency)
- proxy-from-env 2.1.0 (Dependency)
- readable-stream 3.6.2 (Dependency)
- require-directory 2.1.1 (Dependency)
- resolve.exports 2.0.3 (Dependency)
- restore-cursor 3.1.0 (Dependency)
- run-applescript 7.0.0 (Dependency)
- safe-buffer 5.2.1 (Dependency)
- semver 7.8.4 (Dependency)
- signal-exit 3.0.7 (Dependency)
- smol-toml 1.6.1 (Dependency)
- string\_decoder 1.3.0 (Dependency)
- string-width 4.2.3 (Dependency)
- strip-ansi 6.0.1 (Dependency)
- strip-bom 3.0.0 (Dependency)
- supports-color 7.2.0 (Dependency)
- tar-stream 2.2.0 (Dependency)
- tmp 0.2.7 (Dependency)
- tsconfig-paths 4.2.0 (Dependency)
- tslib 2.8.1 (Dependency)
- util-deprecate 1.0.2 (Dependency)
- wcwidth 1.0.1 (Dependency)
- which 3.0.1 (Dependency)
- wrap-ansi 7.0.0 (Dependency)
- wrappy 1.0.2 (Dependency)
- y18n 5.0.8 (Dependency)
- yaml 2.9.0 (Dependency)
- yargs 17.7.2 (Dependency)
- yargs-parser 21.1.1 (Dependency)
- @nx/nx-darwin-arm64 23.1.3 (OptionalDependency)
- @nx/nx-darwin-x64 23.1.3 (OptionalDependency)
- @nx/nx-freebsd-x64 23.1.3 (OptionalDependency)
- @nx/nx-linux-arm-gnueabihf 23.1.3 (OptionalDependency)
- @nx/nx-linux-arm64-gnu 23.1.3 (OptionalDependency)
- @nx/nx-linux-arm64-musl 23.1.3 (OptionalDependency)
- @nx/nx-linux-x64-gnu 23.1.3 (OptionalDependency)
- @nx/nx-linux-x64-musl 23.1.3 (OptionalDependency)
- @nx/nx-win32-arm64-msvc 23.1.3 (OptionalDependency)
- @nx/nx-win32-x64-msvc 23.1.3 (OptionalDependency)
- @swc-node/register ^1.11.1 (PeerDependency)
- @swc/core ^1.15.8 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** nx
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 23.1.3
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-31T23:59:04.781Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-01T00:02:39.246Z
- **Known versions:** 12
- **Latest version:** 23.1.3
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** The core Nx plugin contains the core functionality of Nx like the project graph, nx commands and task orchestration.
- **Author:** Victor Savkin
- **Maintainers:** jack-nrwl, meeroslav, nrwlowner, nrwl-jason, juristr, altan-nrwl, jameshenry, vsavkin
- **Keywords:** Monorepo, Angular, React, Web, Node, Nest, Jest, Cypress, CLI, Testing, Front-end, Backend
- **Artifact files:** 1285
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 17,612,881 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/nx/v/23.1.3>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/nrwl/nx>)
- [Homepage](<https://nx.dev/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/nrwl/nx/issues>)