socket@1.1.167
CLI for Socket.dev
AI Security Review
scanned 2mo ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe package has no install lifecycle hook or self-dependency, and the flagged primitives are reachable through its user-invoked CLI and bundled dependencies. Static inspection found no concrete malicious behavior.
Static reason
High-risk behavior combination matched malicious policy.
Trigger
A user invokes a Socket CLI command.
Impact
No unconsented install-time mutation, persistence, or exfiltration was confirmed.
Mechanism
User-invoked CLI execution and Socket API requests.
AI rationale
The package has no install lifecycle hook or self-dependency, and the flagged primitives are reachable through its user-invoked CLI and bundled dependencies. Static inspection found no concrete malicious behavior.
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 91.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The manifest exposes command-line binaries and contains no automatic install lifecycle hook.
- The launcher starts the packaged CLI only when the user invokes a command.
- The flagged dynamic evaluation is terminfo formatting compilation in bundled terminal code.
- The flagged environment access only enables semver debug logging.
- The vendor bundle defines the package-aligned Socket API base URL.
- The CLI analytics function calls the Socket SDK for an explicitly selected command.
- The binary artifact is a Maven extension JAR with standard metadata.
Evidence against
- No preinstall, install, or postinstall script is declared.
- No self-dependency is declared.
- No source evidence shows credential collection or unconsented exfiltration.
- No confirmed persistence, destructive action, or broad configuration mutation was found.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsEvalFilesystem
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
2 Critical10 High8 Medium6 Low
CriticalCredential Exfiltrationexternal/@socketsecurity/registry/external/libnpmpack.js
CriticalTrigger Reachable Dangerous Capabilitydist/vendor.js
HighChild Processbin/cli.js
HighShell
HighEvalexternal/blessed/lib/tput.js
HighCredential Redirect Persistencedist/vendor.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@1.1.167.
See all versions of socket for other recorded verdicts.
- Review the evidence and your use of socket@1.1.167 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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