---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/secretloop"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/secretloop/v/0.1.7.md"
package: "secretloop"
report_status: "published"
title: "secretloop@0.1.7 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.1.7"
---

# secretloop@0.1.7 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 16 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.1.7
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

The AI recommended clean, but the final policy action is warn. This report does not record a matching static-policy override reason.

AI assessment: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

No confirmed malicious attack surface is established. The CLI’s network activity is an explicit verification feature requested with the verify option; installation does not automatically run it.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 82.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-14T02:54:41.083Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-14T02:56:44.850Z
- **Download time:** 510 ms
- **Static scan time:** 890 ms
- **AI review time:** 122365 ms
- **Total time:** 123767 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 malicious attack surface is established. The CLI’s network activity is an explicit verification feature requested with the verify option; installation does not automatically run it.

- **Trigger:** A user runs the secretloop CLI with the verify option after a scan finds credentials.

- **Impact:** Detected credentials may be sent to their corresponding provider APIs only during explicit verification.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-14T02:56:44.850Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Optional provider-specific credential verification.

- **Rationale:** Source inspection shows no npm install lifecycle trigger and no automatic execution of the CLI. The observed network behavior is gated by an explicit verification option and matches the package’s secret-scanning function.

- **Network endpoints:** api.github.com, slack.com, api.stripe.com, www.googleapis.com, api.openai.com, api.anthropic.com, huggingface.co, registry.npmjs.org, api.digitalocean.com, api.sendgrid.com, discord.com, api.notion.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 82.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Final policy explanation:** The AI recommended clean, but the final policy action is warn. This report does not record a matching static-policy override reason.

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest has only a publish-time hook, not an install-time lifecycle hook., The CLI sends detected credentials to provider APIs only when the explicit verify option is enabled., The CLI runs only when invoked as its executable entry point.

- **Evidence against:** The bundled CLI includes provider verification requests and AWS SDK code, including metadata-service support., The package’s declared VS Code extension entry file is absent from this snapshot.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to secretloop@0.1.7.

- Review the evidence and your use of secretloop@0.1.7 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:** out/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/secretloop@0.1.7/out/cli.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L54: `)||(u["#text"]="#text"in u?u["#text"]+d:d);for(let d of i)d.tag==="__proto__"&&sS(u),d.tag in u?Array.isArray(u[d.tag])?u[d.tag].push(d.value):u[d.tag]=[u[d.tag],d.value]:u[d.tag]...
L55: Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-sso.html`,{tryNextLink:!1,logger:e});return t},PB=(t={})=>async({callerClientConfig:e}={})=>{t.logger?.deb...
L56: Multiple credential sources detected:
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** out/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/secretloop@0.1.7/out/cli.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L39: ${To(i)}`}getCanonicalPath({path:e}){if(this.uriEscapePath){let r=[];for(let s of e.split("/"))s?.length!==0&&s!=="."&&(s===".."?r.pop():r.push(s));let n=`${e?.startsWith("/")?"/":...
L40: `);return this.signString(g,{signingDate:n,signingRegion:c,signingService:i,eventStreamCredentials:a})}async signMessage(e,{signingDate:r=new Date,signingRegion:n,signingService:o,...
L41: For more information, please visit: `+wL);let o=t.originalExpiration??t.expiration;return{...t,...o?{originalExpiration:o}:{},expiration:n}},xL=(t,e={})=>{let r=e?.logger||console,...
...
L54: `)||(u["#text"]="#text"in u?u["#text"]+d:d);for(let d of i)d.tag==="__proto__"&&sS(u),d.tag in u?Array.isArray(u[d.tag])?u[d.tag].push(d.value):u[d.tag]=[u[d.tag],d.value]:u[d.tag]...
L55: Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.
```

### 8. Critical: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** out/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/secretloop@0.1.7/out/cli.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L39: ${To(i)}`}getCanonicalPath({path:e}){if(this.uriEscapePath){let r=[];for(let s of e.split("/"))s?.length!==0&&s!=="."&&(s===".."?r.pop():r.push(s));let n=`${e?.startsWith("/")?"/":...
L40: `);return this.signString(g,{signingDate:n,signingRegion:c,signingService:i,eventStreamCredentials:a})}async signMessage(e,{signingDate:r=new Date,signingRegion:n,signingService:o,...
L41: For more information, please visit: `+wL);let o=t.originalExpiration??t.expiration;return{...t,...o?{originalExpiration:o}:{},expiration:n}},xL=(t,e={})=>{let r=e?.logger||console,...
...
L54: `)||(u["#text"]="#text"in u?u["#text"]+d:d);for(let d of i)d.tag==="__proto__"&&sS(u),d.tag in u?Array.isArray(u[d.tag])?u[d.tag].push(d.value):u[d.tag]=[u[d.tag],d.value]:u[d.tag]...
L55: Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.
```

### 9. High: Cloud Metadata Access
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** out/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/secretloop@0.1.7/out/cli.js>)

Source reaches cloud instance metadata or link-local credential endpoints.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: "use strict";var qD=Object.create;var Nc=Object.defineProperty;var KD=Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor;var ZD=Object.getOwnPropertyNames;var JD=Object.getPrototypeOf,XD=Object.proto...
L3: `,e-1)+1;if(e<=r)return null;let n=t.slice(r,e),o=/["'`]?([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$]*)["'`]?\s*(?::=|[:=])\s*$/.exec(n);return o?o[1]:null}function lx(t,e,r={}){let n=[],o=new Set;for...
L4: `,e-1)+1,n=t.indexOf(`
L5: `,e);return[r,n===-1?t.length:n]}function b1(t,e,r){let n=(o,s)=>{o.fingerprint=Fc({filePath:r,ruleId:o.ruleId,strategy:o.fingerprintStrategy??"value",value:o.value,context:s})};fo...
L6: `);for(let n=0;n<r.length;n++)I1.test(r[n])&&(e.add(n+1),e.add(n+2));return e}function O1(t){let e=[0];for(let r=0;r<t.length;r++)t.charCodeAt(r)===10&&e.push(r+1);return e}functio.
```

### 10. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** out/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/secretloop@0.1.7/out/cli.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 -> out/cli.js
L39: ${To(i)}`}getCanonicalPath({path:e}){if(this.uriEscapePath){let r=[];for(let s of e.split("/"))s?.length!==0&&s!=="."&&(s===".."?r.pop():r.push(s));let n=`${e?.startsWith("/")?"/":...
L40: `);return this.signString(g,{signingDate:n,signingRegion:c,signingService:i,eventStreamCredentials:a})}async signMessage(e,{signingDate:r=new Date,signingRegion:n,signingService:o,...
L41: For more information, please visit: `+wL);let o=t.originalExpiration??t.expiration;return{...t,...o?{originalExpiration:o}:{},expiration:n}},xL=(t,e={})=>{let r=e?.logger||console,...
...
L54: `)||(u["#text"]="#text"in u?u["#text"]+d:d);for(let d of i)d.tag==="__proto__"&&sS(u),d.tag in u?Array.isArray(u[d.tag])?u[d.tag].push(d.value):u[d.tag]=[u[d.tag],d.value]:
```

### 11. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** out/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/secretloop@0.1.7/out/cli.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 -> out/cli.js
L39: ${To(i)}`}getCanonicalPath({path:e}){if(this.uriEscapePath){let r=[];for(let s of e.split("/"))s?.length!==0&&s!=="."&&(s===".."?r.pop():r.push(s));let n=`${e?.startsWith("/")?"/":...
L40: `);return this.signString(g,{signingDate:n,signingRegion:c,signingService:i,eventStreamCredentials:a})}async signMessage(e,{signingDate:r=new Date,signingRegion:n,signingService:o,...
L41: For more information, please visit: `+wL);let o=t.originalExpiration??t.expiration;return{...t,...o?{originalExpiration:o}:{},expiration:n}},xL=(t,e={})=>{let r=e?.logger||console,...
...
L54: `)||(u["#text"]="#text"in u?u["#text"]+d:d);for(let d of i)d.tag==="__proto__"&&sS(u),d.tag in u?Array.isArray(u[d.tag])?u[d.tag].push(d.value):
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 13. Low: Telemetry
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 15. 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.

### 16. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/secretloop@0.1.7/package.json>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 1
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 9
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** secretloop
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.1.7
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-02T00:48:52.753Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-29T16:43:13.926Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-07T23:25:45.050Z
- **Known versions:** 12
- **Latest version:** 0.6.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** SecretLoop detects exposed secrets, verifies whether they are live, and helps developers rotate and remediate them. A GPY Analytics product.
- **Maintainers:** gpyanalytics
- **Keywords:** secretloop, secrets, security, secret-scanning, gitleaks, trufflehog, credentials, api-keys, pre-commit, sarif, devsecops
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18.0.0, vscode: ^1.85.0
- **Artifact files:** 4
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 539,531 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/secretloop/v/0.1.7>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/gpyanalytics/secretloop>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/gpyanalytics/secretloop#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/gpyanalytics/secretloop/issues>)
