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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/runlot/v/0.1.0-rc.154"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/runlot/v/0.1.0-rc.154.md"
package: "runlot"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "runlot@0.1.0-rc.154 npm security report"
verdict: "manual_review"
version: "0.1.0-rc.154"
---

# runlot@0.1.0-rc.154 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 20 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:** 0.1.0-rc.154
- **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 agent configuration and credential findings resolve to ordinary user-invoked setup and credentials scoped to the selected API origin. The bundled native runtime is executed with secrets but its behavior remains unverified, so the package cannot be cleared or blocked from this inspection.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Manual Review
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-18T11:12:07.108Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-18T11:13:18.581Z
- **Download time:** 1024 ms
- **Static scan time:** 4637 ms
- **AI review time:** 65812 ms
- **Total time:** 71473 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 attack was identified, but the shipped native runtime’s behavior remains unresolved.

- **Trigger:** A user runs the package’s \`dev\` command.

- **Impact:** The runtime’s handling of project data and secrets cannot be determined from the inspected evidence.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/index.js, .lpm-inspection-PYbPeF/0-218305e2d913.txt

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-18T11:13:18.581Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The CLI starts the bundled runtime with project configuration and secrets in its environment; the runtime could not be analyzed.

- **Rationale:** The agent configuration and credential findings resolve to ordinary user-invoked setup and credentials scoped to the selected API origin. The bundled native runtime is executed with secrets but its behavior remains unverified, so the package cannot be cleared or blocked from this inspection.

- **Files touched:** bin/linux-x64/runlot-dev-runtime, dist/index.js

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Manual Review

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** manual\_review

- **Intent class:** Unknown

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **AI review observations:** The manifest exposes dist/index.js as the CLI and declares only build, test, and typecheck scripts; it has no install lifecycle hook., The agent setup target names an MCP config path, while \`mcp install\` prints instructions and returns without writing that configuration., Saved credentials are selected by matching the requested API origin., The \`dev\` path starts the packaged runtime with project configuration and secrets in its environment., The offline analysis identifies the packaged ELF runtime but cannot analyze its behavior.

- **Evidence against:** The inspected \`mcp install\` path only prints setup instructions., The credential lookup uses the selected API origin.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to runlot@0.1.0-rc.154.

- Review the evidence and your use of runlot@0.1.0-rc.154 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. Medium: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/runlot@0.1.0-rc.154/dist/index.js>)

Package contains a possible secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = generic_password
severity = medium
line = 22652
```

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/runlot@0.1.0-rc.154/dist/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L21510: import { existsSync as existsSync9, readFileSync as readFileSync12 } from "node:fs";
L21511: import { spawnSync as spawnSync5 } from "node:child_process";
L21512: import { createInterface } from "node:readline/promises";
```

### 4. High: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/runlot@0.1.0-rc.154/dist/index.js>)

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L17252: sourceCode = this.opts.code.process(sourceCode, sch);
L17253: const makeValidate = new Function(`${names_1.default.self}`, `${names_1.default.scope}`, sourceCode);
L17254: const validate2 = makeValidate(this, this.scope.get());
```

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/runlot@0.1.0-rc.154/dist/index.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: import { createRequire as __runlotCreateRequire } from "node:module";
L3: const require = __runlotCreateRequire(import.meta.url);
L4: var __create = Object.create;
```

### 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/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/runlot@0.1.0-rc.154/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L43: // ../../packages/api/src/index.ts
L44: function base64urlJson(v) {
L45: const bytes = new TextEncoder().encode(JSON.stringify(v));
...
L50: function gitQuery(ref, path) {
L51: const q = new URLSearchParams();
L52: if (ref !== "") q.set("ref", ref);
...
L97: async request(method, path, init) {
L98: const res = await fetch(new URL(path, this.opts.baseUrl), {
L99: ...init,
...
L1108: * hostname (the original request went there), and the server derives the org
L1109: * and project names from it. Doing `location.replace` with the `redirect` that
L1110: * comes back is the caller's job.
```

### 10. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/runlot@0.1.0-rc.154/dist/index.js>)

Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration.
dist/index.js:
if (this.opts.token) h["Authorization"] = `Bearer ${this.opts.token}`;
const res = await fetch(new URL(path, this.opts.baseUrl), {
const res = await fetch(new URL(path, this.opts.baseUrl), { method, headers: this.headers() });
const u = new URL("/v1/auth/github/start", this.opts.baseUrl);
const u = new URL("/v1/auth/google/start", this.opts.baseUrl);
const u = new URL("/v1/auth/oidc/start", this.opts.baseUrl);
const res = await fetch(new URL("/v1/auth/oidc/start", this.opts.baseUrl), { method: "HEAD" });
const res = await fetch(new URL(path, this.opts.baseUrl), {
```

### 11. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/runlot@0.1.0-rc.154/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L43: // ../../packages/api/src/index.ts
L44: function base64urlJson(v) {
L45: const bytes = new TextEncoder().encode(JSON.stringify(v));
...
L50: function gitQuery(ref, path) {
L51: const q = new URLSearchParams();
L52: if (ref !== "") q.set("ref", ref);
...
L97: async request(method, path, init) {
L98: const res = await fetch(new URL(path, this.opts.baseUrl), {
L99: ...init,
...
L1108: * hostname (the original request went there), and the server derives the org
L1109: * and project names from it. Doing `location.replace` with the `redirect` that
L1110: * comes back is the caller's job.
```

### 12. Critical: Remote Response Code Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 98.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/runlot@0.1.0-rc.154/dist/index.js>)

Source passes code obtained from a remote response into a dynamic execution sink.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L43: // ../../packages/api/src/index.ts
L44: function base64urlJson(v) {
L45: const bytes = new TextEncoder().encode(JSON.stringify(v));
...
L50: function gitQuery(ref, path) {
L51: const q = new URLSearchParams();
L52: if (ref !== "") q.set("ref", ref);
...
L97: async request(method, path, init) {
L98: const res = await fetch(new URL(path, this.opts.baseUrl), {
L99: ...init,
...
L1108: * hostname (the original request went there), and the server derives the org
L1109: * and project names from it. Doing `location.replace` with the `redirect` that
L1110: * comes back is the caller's job.
```

### 13. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/runlot@0.1.0-rc.154/dist/index.js>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: manifest.bin -> dist/index.js
L43: // ../../packages/api/src/index.ts
L44: function base64urlJson(v) {
L45: const bytes = new TextEncoder().encode(JSON.stringify(v));
...
L50: function gitQuery(ref, path) {
L51: const q = new URLSearchParams();
L52: if (ref !== "") q.set("ref", ref);
...
L97: async request(method, path, init) {
L98: const res = await fetch(new URL(path, this.opts.baseUrl), {
L99: ...init,
...
L1108: * hostname (the original request went there), and the server derives the org
L1109: * and project names from it. Doing `location.replace` with the `redirect` that
L1110: * comes back is the caller's job.
```

### 14. High: Trigger Reachable Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/runlot@0.1.0-rc.154/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable credential exfiltration chain: manifest.bin -> dist/index.js
L43: // ../../packages/api/src/index.ts
L44: function base64urlJson(v) {
L45: const bytes = new TextEncoder().encode(JSON.stringify(v));
...
L50: function gitQuery(ref, path) {
L51: const q = new URLSearchParams();
L52: if (ref !== "") q.set("ref", ref);
...
L97: async request(method, path, init) {
L98: const res = await fetch(new URL(path, this.opts.baseUrl), {
L99: ...init,
...
L1108: * hostname (the original request went there), and the server derives the org
L1109: * and project names from it. Doing `location.replace` with the `redirect` that
L1110: * comes back is the caller's job.
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 17. Medium: Ships Native Binary
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/linux-x64/runlot-dev-runtime
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/runlot@0.1.0-rc.154/bin/linux-x64/runlot-dev-runtime>)

Package ships native binary artifacts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = bin/linux-x64/runlot-dev-runtime
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 11915390
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. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 20. Medium: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/runlot@0.1.0-rc.154/dist/index.js>)

Hardcoded password in dist/index.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = generic_password
severity = medium
line = 22680
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 2
- **Optional dependencies:** 1
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 15
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 3

### Published dependency entries
- @electric-sql/pglite 0.4.3 (Dependency)
- esbuild ^0.24.2 (Dependency)
- workerd 1.20260903.1 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** runlot
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.1.0-rc.154
- **Version published:** 2026-10-18T11:09:35.837Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-08T12:17:38.032Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-03T18:07:44.894Z
- **Known versions:** 78
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0-rc.191
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** runlot CLI — deploy apps and manage PostgreSQL
- **Maintainers:** wickedev
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 3
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 13,824,571 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/runlot/v/0.1.0-rc.154>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/runlot/runlot>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/runlot/runlot#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/runlot/runlot/issues>)
