---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/runlot/v/0.1.0-rc.176"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/runlot/v/0.1.0-rc.176.md"
package: "runlot"
report_status: "published"
title: "runlot@0.1.0-rc.176 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.1.0-rc.176"
---

# runlot@0.1.0-rc.176 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 19 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.1.0-rc.176
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The source does not substantiate the flagged credential redirection, command-output exfiltration, or remote-code execution. The CLI includes disclosed, opt-out crash telemetry and otherwise uses credentials for the matching API origin.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-31T00:15:16.854Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-31T00:16:15.506Z
- **Download time:** 503 ms
- **Static scan time:** 5960 ms
- **AI review time:** 52189 ms
- **Total time:** 58652 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 identified; the flagged credential handling and dynamic evaluation have ordinary, bounded CLI purposes.

- **Trigger:** The CLI runs when invoked; crash telemetry runs only for qualifying errors.

- **Impact:** No malicious impact identified; disclosed crash telemetry may transmit error metadata.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-31T00:16:15.506Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Credentials are scoped to the selected API origin. Crash reports go to Sentry after scrubbing, with a visible notice and opt-out.

- **Rationale:** The source does not substantiate the flagged credential redirection, command-output exfiltration, or remote-code execution. The CLI includes disclosed, opt-out crash telemetry and otherwise uses credentials for the matching API origin.

- **Files touched:** ~/.runlot/credentials.json, ~/.runlot/telemetry-notice

- **Network endpoints:** https://dash.runlot.io, https://o4512108816105473.ingest.us.sentry.io

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest exposes dist/index.js as the runlot CLI and declares no install lifecycle scripts., Credentials from the config file are used only when its API origin matches the selected API origin; the default API is dash.runlot.io., The detected new Function call compiles generated schema-validation code, not code from a remote response., Crash reports are sent to Sentry only for qualifying errors; the CLI discloses the reports and provides RUNLOT\_TELEMETRY=0 to disable them.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to runlot@0.1.0-rc.176.

- Review the evidence and your use of runlot@0.1.0-rc.176 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:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/runlot@0.1.0-rc.176/dist/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3983: }
L3984: var child_process = __require("child_process");
L3985: var crypto2 = __require("crypto");
```

### 3. High: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/runlot@0.1.0-rc.176/dist/index.js>)

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L20266: sourceCode = this.opts.code.process(sourceCode, sch);
L20267: const makeValidate = new Function(`${names_1.default.self}`, `${names_1.default.scope}`, sourceCode);
L20268: const validate2 = makeValidate(this, this.scope.get());
```

### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/runlot@0.1.0-rc.176/dist/index.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: import { dirname as __runlotDirname } from "node:path";
L5: const require = __runlotCreateRequire(import.meta.url);
L6: const __filename = __runlotFilePath(import.meta.url);
```

### 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. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/runlot@0.1.0-rc.176/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: const __filename = __runlotFilePath(import.meta.url);
L7: const __dirname = __runlotDirname(__filename);
L8: var __create = Object.create;
...
L47: // ../../packages/api/src/index.ts
L48: function base64urlJson(v) {
L49: const bytes = new TextEncoder().encode(JSON.stringify(v));
...
L54: function gitQuery(ref, path) {
L55: const q = new URLSearchParams();
L56: if (ref !== "") q.set("ref", ref);
...
L126: async request(method, path, init) {
L127: const res = await fetch(new URL(path, this.opts.baseUrl), {
L128: ...init,
```

### 9. 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.176/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 ${this.opts.token}`;
const res = await fetch(new URL(path, this.opts.baseUrl), {
const res = await fetch(new URL(path, this.opts.baseUrl), { method, headers: this.headers() });
const u = new URL("/v1/auth/github/start", this.opts.baseUrl);
const u = new URL("/v1/auth/google/start", this.opts.baseUrl);
const u = new URL("/v1/auth/oidc/start", this.opts.baseUrl);
const res = await fetch(new URL("/v1/auth/oidc/start", this.opts.baseUrl), { method: "HEAD" });
return new URL(`${this.projectPath(org, name)}/observability/heap-snapshots/${encodeURIComponent(snapshotId)}`, this.o
```

### 10. Critical: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/runlot@0.1.0-rc.176/dist/index.js>)

Source executes local commands and sends command output to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4288: });
L4289: readFromStdout(stdout);
L4290: afterClose(null);
...
L4298: let worker = new worker_threads2.Worker(__filename, {
L4299: workerData: { workerPort, defaultWD, esbuildVersion: "0.24.2" },
L4300: transferList: [workerPort],
L4301: // From node's documentation: https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html
L4302: //
L4303: //   Take care when launching worker threads from preload scripts (scripts loaded
L4304: //   and run using the `-r` command line flag). Unless the `execArgv` option is
L4305: //   explicitly set, new Worker threads automatically inherit the command line flags
```

### 11. 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.176/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Remote response is passed to a worker and executed with Node capabilities.
dist/index.js:
import { createRequire as __runlotCreateRequire } from "node:module";
const require = __runlotCreateRequire(import.meta.url);
var __require = /* @__PURE__ */ ((x) => typeof require !== "undefined" ? require : typeof Proxy !== "undefined" ? new Proxy(x, {
get: (a, b) => (typeof require !== "undefined" ? require : a)[b]
if (typeof require !== "undefined") return require.apply(this, arguments);
throw Error('Dynamic require of "' + x + '" is not supported');
var __commonJS = (cb, mod) => function __require2() {
/** This account's two-factor state, including which orgs require it. */
dist/index.js:
import { createRequire as __runlotCreateRequire } from "node:module";
const require = __runlotCreateRequire(i
```

### 12. 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.176/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
L6: const __filename = __runlotFilePath(import.meta.url);
L7: const __dirname = __runlotDirname(__filename);
L8: var __create = Object.create;
...
L47: // ../../packages/api/src/index.ts
L48: function base64urlJson(v) {
L49: const bytes = new TextEncoder().encode(JSON.stringify(v));
...
L54: function gitQuery(ref, path) {
L55: const q = new URLSearchParams();
L56: if (ref !== "") q.set("ref", ref);
...
L126: async request(method, path, init) {
L127: const res = await fetch(new URL(path, this.opts.baseUrl), {
L128: ...init,
```

### 13. 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.176/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
L6: const __filename = __runlotFilePath(import.meta.url);
L7: const __dirname = __runlotDirname(__filename);
L8: var __create = Object.create;
...
L47: // ../../packages/api/src/index.ts
L48: function base64urlJson(v) {
L49: const bytes = new TextEncoder().encode(JSON.stringify(v));
...
L54: function gitQuery(ref, path) {
L55: const q = new URLSearchParams();
L56: if (ref !== "") q.set("ref", ref);
...
L126: async request(method, path, init) {
L127: const res = await fetch(new URL(path, this.opts.baseUrl), {
L128: ...init,
```

### 14. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/runlot@0.1.0-rc.176/dist/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.bin -> dist/index.js
L4288: });
L4289: readFromStdout(stdout);
L4290: afterClose(null);
...
L4298: let worker = new worker_threads2.Worker(__filename, {
L4299: workerData: { workerPort, defaultWD, esbuildVersion: "0.24.2" },
L4300: transferList: [workerPort],
L4301: // From node's documentation: https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html
L4302: //
L4303: //   Take care when launching worker threads from preload scripts (scripts loaded
L4304: //   and run using the `-r` command line flag). Unless the `execArgv` option is
L4305: //   explicitly set, new Worker threads automatically inherit the command line flags
```

### 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.176/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 = 12095614
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.

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

- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 30
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 16
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 31

### Published dependency entries
- @electric-sql/pglite 0.4.3 (Dependency)
- @cloudflare/workerd-darwin-64 1.20260903.1 (OptionalDependency)
- @cloudflare/workerd-darwin-arm64 1.20260903.1 (OptionalDependency)
- @cloudflare/workerd-linux-64 1.20260903.1 (OptionalDependency)
- @cloudflare/workerd-linux-arm64 1.20260903.1 (OptionalDependency)
- @cloudflare/workerd-windows-64 1.20260903.1 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/aix-ppc64 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/android-arm 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/android-arm64 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/android-x64 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/darwin-arm64 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/darwin-x64 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/freebsd-arm64 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/freebsd-x64 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/linux-arm 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/linux-arm64 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/linux-ia32 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/linux-loong64 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/linux-mips64el 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/linux-ppc64 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/linux-riscv64 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/linux-s390x 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/linux-x64 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/netbsd-arm64 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/netbsd-x64 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/openbsd-arm64 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/openbsd-x64 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/sunos-x64 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/win32-arm64 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/win32-ia32 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @esbuild/win32-x64 0.24.2 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** runlot
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.1.0-rc.176
- **Version published:** 2026-10-31T00:11:48.734Z
- **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:** 14,561,499 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/runlot/v/0.1.0-rc.176>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/runlot/runlot>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/runlot/runlot#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/runlot/runlot/issues>)
