---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/postboi/v/0.38.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/postboi/v/0.38.0.md"
package: "postboi"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "postboi@0.38.0 npm security report"
verdict: "scan_failed"
version: "0.38.0"
---

# postboi@0.38.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 15 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Scan Failed
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Under Review
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.38.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

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.

Static analysis completed at 0.0% confidence. No malicious behavior was detected; 15 low-signal pattern(s) were surfaced and cleared.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Scan Failed
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 0.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-19T16:22:49.960Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-19T16:22:52.807Z
- **Download time:** 769 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2078 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 2847 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

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to postboi@0.38.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of postboi@0.38.0 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: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/postboi@0.38.0/dist/cli.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L788: } from "node:fs";
L789: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L790: import { join as join6, delimiter, dirname as dirname3 } from "node:path";
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/postboi@0.38.0/dist/cli.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8599: if (platform2 === "win32" && spec.unsafe_on_windows) {
L8600: return { ok: false, reason: "this value needs quoting cmd.exe can't do safely" };
L8601: }
```

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/workers\_env.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/postboi@0.38.0/dist/workers_env.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L14: * Isolated in its own module so the bundler-hostile import has one home. The specifier is
L15: * assembled at runtime on purpose: a literal `import("cloudflare:workers")` makes bundlers
L16: * targeting Node try to resolve it and fail the build.
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 9. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/postboi@0.38.0/dist/cli.js>)

Source appears to send environment or credential material to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L108: const { pathToFileURL } = await import("node:url");
L109: let dir = process.cwd();
L110: for (;; ) {
...
L245: if (this.#hooks.before?.send) {
L246: return this.#hooks.before.send({
L247: provider: this.provider,
...
L294: async send_request(url, init) {
L295: return fetch(url, init);
L296: }
...
L358: async read_json(response) {
L359: const text = await response.text();
L360: if (!text)
```

### 10. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/postboi@0.38.0/dist/cli.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L108: const { pathToFileURL } = await import("node:url");
L109: let dir = process.cwd();
L110: for (;; ) {
...
L245: if (this.#hooks.before?.send) {
L246: return this.#hooks.before.send({
L247: provider: this.provider,
...
L294: async send_request(url, init) {
L295: return fetch(url, init);
L296: }
...
L358: async read_json(response) {
L359: const text = await response.text();
L360: if (!text)
```

### 11. Critical: Browser Credential Phishing
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/postboi@0.38.0/dist/cli.js>)

Source appears to collect browser login credentials for exfiltration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L108: const { pathToFileURL } = await import("node:url");
L109: let dir = process.cwd();
L110: for (;; ) {
...
L245: if (this.#hooks.before?.send) {
L246: return this.#hooks.before.send({
L247: provider: this.provider,
...
L294: async send_request(url, init) {
L295: return fetch(url, init);
L296: }
...
L358: async read_json(response) {
L359: const text = await response.text();
L360: if (!text)
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 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:** 85.0%

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

### 15. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/postboi@0.38.0/dist/cli.js>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = postboi@0.49.0
matchedIdentity = npm:cG9zdGJvaQ:0.49.0
similarity = 0.400
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepare
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 5
- **Development dependencies:** 40
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 5

### Published dependency entries
- @maizzle/framework ^6.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- @sveltejs/kit ^2.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- react \>=18 (PeerDependency)
- svelte ^5.7.0 (PeerDependency)
- vue \>=3.3 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** postboi
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.38.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-24T13:30:06.531Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T12:53:16.259Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-29T15:14:24.044Z
- **Known versions:** 58
- **Latest version:** 0.77.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** \<div align="center"\> \<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/postboi-mail/postboi/refs/heads/main/static/logo.svg" alt="Postboi" width="250" /\>
- **Maintainers:** darbymanning
- **Keywords:** svelte
- **Artifact files:** 245
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 3,849,781 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/postboi/v/0.38.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/postboi-mail/postboi>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/postboi-mail/postboi#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/postboi-mail/postboi/issues>)
