---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/secretloop"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/secretloop/v/0.2.0.md"
package: "secretloop"
report_status: "published"
title: "secretloop@0.2.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.2.0"
---

# secretloop@0.2.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as AI-agent capability risk** — Allowed by default with warning: agent-facing configuration or capability changes need review before use.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only AI-agent capability risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** AI-agent capability abuse
- **Selected version:** 0.2.0
- **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: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Review flagged AI-agent configuration or capability changes. This remains warn-only unless evidence shows foreign-agent hijack through preinstall/install/postinstall, hidden persistence, exfiltration, remote code execution, or other concrete malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 90.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-03T21:33:30.687Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-03T21:34:45.208Z
- **Download time:** 515 ms
- **Static scan time:** 8379 ms
- **AI review time:** 65624 ms
- **Total time:** 74521 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:** Running the MCP server exposes instructions intended to control an AI client's interpretation of scan results. Its explicit verification feature can send a matched credential to that credential's provider after human approval.

- **Trigger:** A user starts secretloop-mcp and an MCP client calls its tools; credential transmission additionally requires terminal approval.

- **Impact:** An AI client may be pressured to accept the package's conclusions without independent judgment; approved verification sends a credential externally.

- **Evidence paths:** out/mcp.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-03T21:34:45.208Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Authoritative agent instructions and human-approved credential verification.

- **Rationale:** The bundled MCP instructions are review-manipulation behavior, so the package should not be treated as clean. The remaining risky capability is user-invoked and approval-gated, with no install-time hook.

- **Files touched:** out/mcp.js, out/cli.js

- **Network endpoints:** api.github.com, api.stripe.com, sts.amazonaws.com, www.googleapis.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 90.0%

- **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** The MCP server instructs connected agents to treat its verdicts as authoritative and never reclassify or suppress them., Its verification path can report an external transmission of a detected credential to the selected provider.

- **Evidence against:** There is no preinstall, install, or postinstall lifecycle hook., Credential verification is an explicit feature and the MCP path requires a separate human terminal approval before transmission., The metadata exposes the scanner and MCP server as user-invoked commands rather than running them at installation.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to secretloop@0.2.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of secretloop@0.2.0 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:** out/mcp.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/secretloop@0.2.0/out/mcp.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L120: `)||(u["#text"]="#text"in u?u["#text"]+l:l);for(let l of s)l.tag==="__proto__"&&lR(u),l.tag in u?Array.isArray(u[l.tag])?u[l.tag].push(l.value):u[l.tag]=[u[l.tag],l.value]:u[l.tag]...
L121: Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-sso.html`,{tryNextLink:!1,logger:t});return e},gke=(e={})=>async({callerClientConfig:t}={})=>{e.logger?.de...
L122: Multiple credential sources detected:
```

### 4. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** out/mcp.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/secretloop@0.2.0/out/mcp.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L66: || (${s} === "string" && ${n} && ${n} == +${n} && !(${n} % 1))`).assign(a,(0,Te._)`+${n}`);return;case"boolean":i.elseIf((0,Te._)`${n} === "false" || ${n} === 0 || ${n} === null`)....
L67: || ${s} === "boolean" || ${n} === null`).assign(a,(0,Te._)`[${n}]`)}}}function cbe({gen:e,parentData:t,parentDataProperty:r},i){e.if((0,Te._)`${t} !== undefined`,()=>e.assign((0,Te...
L68: missingProperty: ${i},
```

### 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:** out/mcp.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/secretloop@0.2.0/out/mcp.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L57: 
L58: Set the \`cycles\` parameter to \`"ref"\` to resolve cyclical schemas with defs.`)}for(let s of e.seen.entries()){let a=s[1];if(t===s[0]){o(s);continue}if(e.external){let u=e.exter...
L59: `);if("message"in e&&typeof e.message=="string")return e.message;try{return JSON.stringify(e)}catch{return String(e)}}return String(e)}function yme(e){return e.description}function...
...
L66: || (${s} === "string" && ${n} && ${n} == +${n} && !(${n} % 1))`).assign(a,(0,Te._)`+${n}`);return;case"boolean":i.elseIf((0,Te._)`${n} === "false" || ${n} === 0 || ${n} === null`)....
L67: || ${s} === "boolean" || ${n} === null`).assign(a,(0,Te._)`[${n}]`)}}}function cbe({gen:e,parentData:t,parentDataProperty:r},i){e.if((0,Te._)`${t} !== undefined`,()=>e.assign((0,Te...
L68: missingProperty: ${i},
...
L7
```

### 9. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** out/mcp.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/secretloop@0.2.0/out/mcp.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L57: 
L58: Set the \`cycles\` parameter to \`"ref"\` to resolve cyclical schemas with defs.`)}for(let s of e.seen.entries()){let a=s[1];if(t===s[0]){o(s);continue}if(e.external){let u=e.exter...
L59: `);if("message"in e&&typeof e.message=="string")return e.message;try{return JSON.stringify(e)}catch{return String(e)}}return String(e)}function yme(e){return e.description}function...
...
L66: || (${s} === "string" && ${n} && ${n} == +${n} && !(${n} % 1))`).assign(a,(0,Te._)`+${n}`);return;case"boolean":i.elseIf((0,Te._)`${n} === "false" || ${n} === 0 || ${n} === null`)....
L67: || ${s} === "boolean" || ${n} === null`).assign(a,(0,Te._)`[${n}]`)}}}function cbe({gen:e,parentData:t,parentDataProperty:r},i){e.if((0,Te._)`${t} !== undefined`,()=>e.assign((0,Te...
L68: missingProperty: ${i},
...
L7
```

### 10. High: Cloud Metadata Access
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** out/mcp.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/secretloop@0.2.0/out/mcp.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 oX=Object.create;var Zh=Object.defineProperty;var sX=Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor;var aX=Object.getOwnPropertyNames;var cX=Object.getPrototypeOf,uX=Object.proto...
L3: `)}});var j0=I(G=>{"use strict";var QQ=G&&G.__createBinding||(Object.create?(function(e,t,r,i){i===void 0&&(i=r);var n=Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(t,r);(!n||("get"in n?!t.__esM...
...
L6: `)}
L7: };`)(...Object.values(this.closed))}};Qh.Doc=q0});var V0=I(tg=>{"use strict";Object.defineProperty(tg,"__esModule",{value:!0});tg.version=void 0;tg.version={major:4,minor:5,patch:1...
L8: for (let i = 0; i < ${M}.issues.length; i++) {
...
L58: Set the \`cycles\` parameter to \`"ref"\` to resolve cyclical schemas with defs.`)}for(let s of e.seen.entries()){let a=s[1];if(t===s[0]){o(
```

### 11. High: Obfuscated Payload Loader
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** out/mcp.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/secretloop@0.2.0/out/mcp.js>)

Source contains an obfuscated payload loader that reconstructs and executes hidden code.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: "use strict";var oX=Object.create;var Zh=Object.defineProperty;var sX=Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor;var aX=Object.getOwnPropertyNames;var cX=Object.getPrototypeOf,uX=Object.proto...
L3: `)}});var j0=I(G=>{"use strict";var QQ=G&&G.__createBinding||(Object.create?(function(e,t,r,i){i===void 0&&(i=r);var n=Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(t,r);(!n||("get"in n?!t.__esM...
...
L6: `)}
L7: };`)(...Object.values(this.closed))}};Qh.Doc=q0});var V0=I(tg=>{"use strict";Object.defineProperty(tg,"__esModule",{value:!0});tg.version=void 0;tg.version={major:4,minor:5,patch:1...
L8: for (let i = 0; i < ${M}.issues.length; i++) {
...
L58: Set the \`cycles\` parameter to \`"ref"\` to resolve cyclical schemas with defs.`)}for(let s of e.seen.entries()){let a=s[1];if(t===s[0]){o(
```

### 12. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** out/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/secretloop@0.2.0/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
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: "use strict";var _1=Object.create;var zc=Object.defineProperty;var T1=Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor;var v1=Object.getOwnPropertyNames;var R1=Object.getPrototypeOf,C1=Object.proto...
L3: `).filter(a=>a.trim().length>0):bx(t,t),o=[],s=0,i=0;for(let a of n)switch(lo(a,e)){case"none":Gc(t,a)?o.push(a):i++;break;case"generated":s++;break;default:break}return{files:o,ge...
L4: `).filter(r=>r.trim().length>0)}}function Ax(t,e,r){let n=r.trim();return n?`git could not list staged files: ${n}`:e?`git was killed by ${e} before it could list staged files.`:`g...
L5: `,e-1)+1;if(e<=r)return null;let n=t.slice(r,e),o=/["'`]?([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$]*)["'`]?\s*(?::=|[:=])\s*$/.exec(n);return o?o[
```

### 13. Medium: Protestware
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 90.0%

Package source has broad protestware-like patterns that need review.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 17. 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.

### 18. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/secretloop@0.2.0/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:** 10
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** secretloop
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.2.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-03T20:14:06.406Z
- **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:** 5
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,928,712 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/secretloop/v/0.2.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/gpyanalytics/secretloop>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/gpyanalytics/secretloop#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/gpyanalytics/secretloop/issues>)
