socket@1.1.162
CLI for Socket.dev
AI Security Review
scanned 2mo ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThis is not install-time malware, but it creates a real conditional credential-forwarding and remote-code execution surface during user commands. The destination and downloaded code are outside the inspected package, so the risk warrants a warning rather than a block.
Static reason
High-risk behavior combination matched malicious policy.; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source
Trigger
Run a CLI operation that calls the Coana launcher.
Impact
Conditional exposure of the Socket API token and inherited environment to dynamically obtained third-party code.
Mechanism
Runtime npm installation and execution with credential-bearing child environment.
AI rationale
This is not install-time malware, but it creates a real conditional credential-forwarding and remote-code execution surface during user commands. The destination and downloaded code are outside the inspected package, so the risk warrants a warning rather than a block.
Evidence
dist/cli.jsdist/utils.jsnode_modules/@coana-tech/cli
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Suspicious at 87.0% confidence as Dangerous Capability with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for warning
- Coana-dependent CLI operations invoke the Coana launcher.
- The launcher obtains a Socket API token and explicitly adds it to the child environment.
- The child environment also inherits the caller's environment.
- The launcher can install and execute @coana-tech/cli at runtime in a temporary directory.
Evidence against
- The manifest exposes command-line binaries and has no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook.
- The bundled registry fetch code removes authorization and cookie headers when redirects change hostnames.
- The terminal-library dynamic Function use compiles terminal capability strings rather than package payloads.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsEvalFilesystemNativeBindingsNetworkShell
HighEntropyStringsPossibleObfuscation
Source & flagged code
18 flaggedbin/cli.jsView file
19L20: const spawnPromise = spawn(
L21: constants.execPath,
High
external/blessed/lib/tput.jsView file
1152if (this.options.stringify && code.indexOf('return ') === 0) {
L1153: return new Function('', code)();
L1154: }
High
Eval
Package source references dynamic code evaluation.
external/blessed/lib/tput.jsView on unpkg · L1152bin/npm-cli.jsView file
4void (async () => {
L5: const Module = require('node:module')
L6: const path = require('node:path')
Medium
Findings
3 Critical9 High8 Medium6 Low
CriticalCredential Exfiltrationexternal/@socketsecurity/registry/external/libnpmpack.js
CriticalTrigger Reachable Dangerous Capabilitydist/vendor.js
CriticalPrevious Version Dangerous Deltadist/cli.js
HighChild Processbin/cli.js
HighShell
HighEvalexternal/blessed/lib/tput.js
HighCommand Output Exfiltrationdist/vendor.js
HighCross File Remote Execution Contextdist/cli.js
HighTrigger Reachable Credential Exfiltrationdist/vendor.js
HighTrigger Reachable Persistencedist/cli.js
HighShips High Entropy Blobdist/manifest-scripts/maven-extension/coana-maven-extension.jar
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to socket@1.1.162.
See all versions of socket for other recorded verdicts.
- Review the evidence and your use of socket@1.1.162 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.
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