socket@1.1.168
CLI for Socket.dev
AI Security Review
scanned 2mo ago · by lpm-firewall-aiNo concrete malicious install, persistence, credential theft, or unconsented control-surface mutation was established. The executable opaque Maven extension remains a real unresolved runtime risk.
Static reason
High-risk behavior combination matched malicious policy.
Trigger
A user runs the CLI's Maven manifest or reachability-analysis command.
Impact
The opaque JAR runs in the user's Maven process, and selected project manifest data can leave the machine.
Mechanism
Loads a bundled Java extension and sends manifest inputs to the Socket API.
AI rationale
No concrete malicious install, persistence, credential theft, or unconsented control-surface mutation was established. The executable opaque Maven extension remains a real unresolved runtime risk.
Evidence
dist/cli.jsdist/manifest-scripts/maven-extension/coana-maven-extension.jar
Network endpoints1
api.socket.dev
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Suspicious at 76.0% confidence as Dangerous Capability with medium false-positive risk.
Evidence for warning
- The CLI loads a bundled Maven extension JAR into Maven during a user-invoked manifest operation; the JAR cannot be source-reviewed here.
- The CLI uploads selected manifest paths to Socket's API for reachability analysis.
Evidence against
- package.json defines command-line entrypoints but no preinstall, install, postinstall, or prepare hook.
- The launcher only starts the package's compiled CLI with user arguments.
- The flagged terminal-library dynamic Function use is for compiling terminfo formatting code, not an observed payload loader.
- The registry vendored file is a large bundled package-management implementation; inspection did not establish credential exfiltration.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsEvalFilesystemNativeBindingsNetworkShell
HighEntropyStrings
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@1.1.168.
See all versions of socket for other recorded verdicts.
- Review the evidence and your use of socket@1.1.168 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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