socket@1.1.171
CLI for Socket.dev
AI Security Review
scanned 2mo ago · by lpm-firewall-aiNo install-time attack, credential theft, or unconsented persistence was established. The user-triggered opaque Maven extension warrants a warning because its compiled behavior could not be fully inspected.
Static reason
High-risk behavior combination matched malicious policy.
Trigger
A user invokes a manifest command that analyzes a Maven project.
Impact
The extension executes in the analyzed project's Maven process; no concrete malicious action was established.
Mechanism
Loads a bundled Maven extension into Maven.
AI rationale
No install-time attack, credential theft, or unconsented persistence was established. The user-triggered opaque Maven extension warrants a warning because its compiled behavior could not be fully inspected.
Evidence
dist/cli.jsdist/manifest-scripts/maven-extension/coana-maven-extension.jarexternal/blessed/lib/tput.js
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Suspicious at 68.0% confidence as Dangerous Capability with medium false-positive risk.
Evidence for warning
- The CLI loads a bundled Maven extension JAR into Maven when the manifest command is run.
- The bundled Maven extension is opaque compiled bytecode, so its behavior cannot be fully verified from source.
- A vendored terminal library dynamically compiles generated terminal-formatting code.
Evidence against
- package.json has no preinstall, install, or postinstall lifecycle hook.
- The package is a user-invoked CLI; its launcher forwards explicit command-line arguments to dist/cli.js.
- The flagged registry code contains npm registry handling, and no source evidence showed secret harvesting or exfiltration by this package.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsEvalFilesystemNativeBindingsNetworkShell
HighEntropyStringsPossibleObfuscationUrlStrings
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@1.1.171.
See all versions of socket for other recorded verdicts.
- Review the evidence and your use of socket@1.1.171 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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