---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/portomatic/v/0.2.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/portomatic/v/0.2.2.md"
package: "portomatic"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "portomatic@0.2.2 npm security report"
verdict: "manual_review"
version: "0.2.2"
---

# portomatic@0.2.2 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:** Manual Review
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Under Review
- **Threat category:** Unknown
- **Selected version:** 0.2.2
- **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: manual review; recommendation: manual review. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The package uses the unresolved yaml dependency to parse local manifests, so the selected runtime dependency source must be reviewed before clearing the package. The inspected device-report path does not independently establish an attack.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Manual Review
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 75.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-22T17:35:22.738Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-22T17:36:20.267Z
- **Download time:** 2564 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1648 ms
- **AI review time:** 53317 ms
- **Total time:** 57529 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 confirmed in the inspected package source. Review remains unresolved because runtime code uses yaml, whose dependency source was unavailable.

- **Trigger:** A CLI command that reads a JSON or YAML manifest.

- **Impact:** The behavior and impact of the unresolved dependency cannot be determined from the available source.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, products/slack/dist/src/cli/project.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-22T17:36:20.267Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The CLI passes local manifest contents to yaml parsing code; that dependency could not be reviewed.

- **Rationale:** The package uses the unresolved yaml dependency to parse local manifests, so the selected runtime dependency source must be reviewed before clearing the package. The inspected device-report path does not independently establish an attack.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Manual Review

- **Confidence:** 75.0%

- **Recommended action:** manual\_review

- **Intent class:** Unknown

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **AI review observations:** package.json declares yaml 2.9.1, whose dependency source was not available for inspection., The CLI imports yaml to parse local manifest files, so the unresolved dependency is used at runtime.

- **Evidence against:** The reviewed device report sends a saved access token to the same service used for authentication; this alone does not establish unrelated credential disclosure.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to portomatic@0.2.2.

- Review the evidence and your use of portomatic@0.2.2 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. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** products/slack/dist/src/cli/run.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/portomatic@0.2.2/products/slack/dist/src/cli/run.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: var T=Object.defineProperty;var s=(r,t)=>T(r,"name",{value:t,configurable:!0});import{spawn as u}from"node:child_process";import{runtimeEnvironment as w}from"../testing/runtime.js"...
```

### 3. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** products/slack/dist/src/main.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/portomatic@0.2.2/products/slack/dist/src/main.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: var h=Object.defineProperty;var c=(s,o)=>h(s,"name",{value:o,configurable:!0});var j=function(s,o){return typeof s=="string"&&/^\.\.?\//.test(s)?s.replace(/\.(tsx)$|((?:\.d)?)((?:\...
L3: API endpoint: ${e.apiUrl} \u2014 for bots and programmatic access only.`);else console.log(typeof r=="string"?r:JSON.stringify(r,null,2))},"emit");if(t==="help"||o.help)n(k(t==="he...
```

### 4. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** products/slack/dist/src/core/avatars.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/portomatic@0.2.2/products/slack/dist/src/core/avatars.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: var o=Object.defineProperty;var i=(a,e)=>o(a,"name",{value:e,configurable:!0});import{createHash as g}from"node:crypto";const m=[24,32,48,72,192,512];function c(a){let e=5381;const...
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** products/slack/dist/src/testing/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/portomatic@0.2.2/products/slack/dist/src/testing/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: var h=Object.defineProperty;var l=(n,e)=>h(n,"name",{value:e,configurable:!0});import{randomBytes as d}from"node:crypto";import{readTemplate as p}from"../templates.js";import{runti...
L2: ${this.botLogs()}`)}return s}async waitUntilReady(e=5e3){const t=performance.now()+e;let s;do{if(s=await this.control("doctor"),s.checks.length&&s.checks.filter(r=>r.check!=="recen...
L3: ${JSON.stringify(await this.control("diagnostics"),null,2)}
```

### 9. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** products/slack/dist/src/testing/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/portomatic@0.2.2/products/slack/dist/src/testing/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: var h=Object.defineProperty;var l=(n,e)=>h(n,"name",{value:e,configurable:!0});import{randomBytes as d}from"node:crypto";import{readTemplate as p}from"../templates.js";import{runti...
L2: ${this.botLogs()}`)}return s}async waitUntilReady(e=5e3){const t=performance.now()+e;let s;do{if(s=await this.control("doctor"),s.checks.length&&s.checks.filter(r=>r.check!=="recen...
L3: ${JSON.stringify(await this.control("diagnostics"),null,2)}
```

### 10. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** products/slack/dist/src/testing/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/portomatic@0.2.2/products/slack/dist/src/testing/index.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches command-output exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable command-output exfiltration chain: manifest.exports -> [redacted].js
L1: var h=Object.defineProperty;var l=(n,e)=>h(n,"name",{value:e,configurable:!0});import{randomBytes as d}from"node:crypto";import{readTemplate as p}from"../templates.js";import{runti...
L2: ${this.botLogs()}`)}return s}async waitUntilReady(e=5e3){const t=performance.now()+e;let s;do{if(s=await this.control("doctor"),s.checks.length&&s.checks.filter(r=>r.check!=="recen...
L3: ${JSON.stringify(await this.control("diagnostics"),null,2)}
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 13. 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.

### 14. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

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

- **Dependencies:** 5
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 5

### Published dependency entries
- @portomatic/telemetry file:../telemetry (Dependency)
- ajv 8.20.0 (Dependency)
- sharp 0.35.5 (Dependency)
- ws 8.22.0 (Dependency)
- yaml 2.9.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** portomatic
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.2.2
- **Version published:** 2026-10-22T17:32:16.974Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-17T02:44:49.901Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-03T00:13:03.963Z
- **Known versions:** 17
- **Latest version:** 0.3.80
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Slack for testing bots, with the real Slack client.
- **Maintainers:** portomatic-admin
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=24
- **Artifact files:** 4405
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 18,916,240 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/portomatic/v/0.2.2>)
