---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/socket/v/1.13.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/socket/v/1.13.0.md"
package: "socket"
report_status: "published"
title: "socket@1.13.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.13.0"
---

# socket@1.13.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 27 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Telemetry warning (can be blocked)
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Telemetry
- **Selected version:** 1.13.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **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.

The package’s security CLI purpose explains its API and subprocess behavior, and the flagged credential finding is a false positive. However, CLI startup automatically tracks command context and error details for organization-enabled telemetry, with no disclosure or local opt-out found, so this merits a warning rather than a block.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 83.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-03T13:06:21.462Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-03T13:08:22.364Z
- **Download time:** 1030 ms
- **Static scan time:** 34601 ms
- **AI review time:** 85270 ms
- **Total time:** 120902 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:** Undisclosed runtime telemetry can report CLI invocation context and error details to Socket when an organization has telemetry enabled.

- **Trigger:** Each CLI invocation starts telemetry tracking; sending requires a configured default organization and that organization’s telemetry setting to be enabled.

- **Impact:** Socket may receive command arguments and diagnostic details without a disclosure or local opt-out found in the reviewed package source.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/cli.js, dist/utils.js, dist/constants.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-03T13:08:22.364Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The CLI records sanitized arguments and runtime metadata, adds path-sanitized error messages and stacks on failures, then submits events through the Socket SDK.

- **Rationale:** The package’s security CLI purpose explains its API and subprocess behavior, and the flagged credential finding is a false positive. However, CLI startup automatically tracks command context and error details for organization-enabled telemetry, with no disclosure or local opt-out found, so this merits a warning rather than a block.

- **Network endpoints:** api.socket.dev

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 83.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The CLI records a start event with the full process arguments as soon as it starts., Telemetry includes sanitized arguments and platform, architecture, Node version, and CLI version; error events also include a path-sanitized message and stack., Events are sent when a default organization is configured and that organization’s telemetry setting is enabled, through the Socket SDK’s organization telemetry endpoint., The package manifest has no install lifecycle scripts; the reported behavior is runtime telemetry.

- **Evidence against:** Telemetry is scoped to a configured organization and is skipped when the organization setting disables it., The telemetry targets Socket’s own service; the reviewed source shows no automatic credential collection or unrelated collector., The package is a Socket security CLI, so API calls, subprocesses, and project scanning fit its stated purpose.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to socket@1.13.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of socket@1.13.0 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: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/socket@1.13.0/bin/cli.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L19: 
L20: const spawnPromise = spawn(
L21: constants.execPath,
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/socket@1.13.0/dist/cli.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5155: if (extension === '.ps1') {
L5156: throw new utils.InputError('This PowerShell Bazel launcher could not be resolved to a Node entry point. Pass a native .exe, a .cmd or .bat wrapper, or a JavaScript entry point with...
L5157: }
```

### 4. High: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** external/blessed/lib/tput.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/socket@1.13.0/external/blessed/lib/tput.js>)

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1152: if (this.options.stringify && code.indexOf('return ') === 0) {
L1153: return new Function('', code)();
L1154: }
```

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/npm-cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/socket@1.13.0/bin/npm-cli.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: void (async () => {
L5: const Module = require('node:module')
L6: const path = require('node:path')
```

### 6. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** external/@socketsecurity/registry/external/libnpmpack.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/socket@1.13.0/external/%40socketsecurity/registry/external/libnpmpack.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L13: const require$$0$a = require('path')
L14: const require$$0$b = require('child_process')
L15: const require$$0$c = require('os')
...
L30: const require$$0$l = require('crypto')
L31: const require$$0$m = require('http')
L32: const require$$2$4 = require('https')
L33: const require$$0$n = require('dns')
L34: const require$$0$o = require('net')
...
L65: const hexify = char => {
L66: const h = char.charCodeAt(0).toString(16).toUpperCase()
L67: return `0x${h.length % 2 ? '0' : ''}${h}`
...
L233:
```

### 7. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 8. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 9. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/socket@1.13.0/dist/cli.js>)

Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L21: var spawn = require('../external/@[redacted]');
L22: var childProcess = require('node:child_process');
L23: var bin = require('../external/@socketsecurity/registry/lib/bin');
...
L85: if (!result.ok) {
L86: process.exitCode = result.code ?? 1;
L87: }
...
L187: titles: Object.keys(data.top_five_alert_types),
L188: data: Object.values(data.top_five_alert_types)
L189: });
...
L1079: const {
L1080: cwd = process.cwd(),
L1081: defaultBranch,
```

### 10. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 11. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** external/@socketsecurity/registry/external/libnpmpack.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/socket@1.13.0/external/%40socketsecurity/registry/external/libnpmpack.js>)

Source appears to send environment or credential material to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L13: const require$$0$a = require('path')
L14: const require$$0$b = require('child_process')
L15: const require$$0$c = require('os')
...
L30: const require$$0$l = require('crypto')
L31: const require$$0$m = require('http')
L32: const require$$2$4 = require('https')
L33: const require$$0$n = require('dns')
L34: const require$$0$o = require('net')
...
L65: const hexify = char => {
L66: const h = char.charCodeAt(0).toString(16).toUpperCase()
L67: return `0x${h.length % 2 ? '0' : ''}${h}`
...
L233:
```

### 12. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/vendor.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/socket@1.13.0/dist/vendor.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8: var os$4 = require('node:os');
L9: var require$$2$4 = require('node:https');
L10: var require$$1$7 = require('node:http');
...
L32: var node_buffer = require$$0$b;
L33: var childProcess = require('node:child_process');
L34: var require$$0$j = require$$0$i;
...
L46: var require$$6$4 = Pi;
L47: var require$$0$o = require('node:dns');
L48: var require$$0$p = require('node:net');
...
L954: var _a$1, _b$1, _c$1;
L955: const minNodeVersion$1 = process && process.env && process.env.YARGS_MIN_NODE_VERSION ? Number(process.env.YARGS_MIN_NODE_VERSION) : 12;
L956: const nodeVersion$1 = (_b$1 = (_a$1 = process === null || process === void 0 ? void 0 : process.versions) === null || _a$1 === void 0 ? void 0 : _a$1.node) !== null && _b$1 !== voi...
```

### 13. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/socket@1.13.0/dist/cli.js>)

Source spawns a local helper that also contains network and dynamic execution context; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Cross-file remote execution chain: dist/cli.js spawns dist/vendor.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L21: var spawn = require('../external/@[redacted]');
L22: var childProcess = require('node:child_process');
L23: var bin = require('../external/@socketsecurity/registry/lib/bin');
...
L85: if (!result.ok) {
L86: process.exitCode = result.code ?? 1;
L87: }
...
L187: titles: Object.keys(data.top_five_alert_types),
L188: data: Object.values(data.top_five_alert_types)
L189: });
...
L1079: const {
L1080: cwd = process.cwd(),
L1081: defaultBranch,
```

### 14. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/vendor.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/socket@1.13.0/dist/vendor.js>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: manifest.exports -> dist/cli.js -> dist/vendor.js
L8: var os$4 = require('node:os');
L9: var require$$2$4 = require('node:https');
L10: var require$$1$7 = require('node:http');
...
L32: var node_buffer = require$$0$b;
L33: var childProcess = require('node:child_process');
L34: var require$$0$j = require$$0$i;
...
L46: var require$$6$4 = Pi;
L47: var require$$0$o = require('node:dns');
L48: var require$$0$p = require('node:net');
...
L954: var _a$1, _b$1, _c$1;
L955: const minNodeVersion$1 = process && process.env && process.env.YARGS_MIN_NODE_VERSION ? Number(process.env.YARGS_MIN_NODE_VERSION) : 12;
L956: const nodeVersion$1 = (_b$1 = (_a$1 = process === null || process === void 0 ? void 0 : process.versions) === null || _a$1 === void 0 ? void 0 : _a$1.node) !== n
```

### 15. High: Trigger Reachable Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/vendor.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/socket@1.13.0/dist/vendor.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches credential exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable credential exfiltration chain: manifest.exports -> dist/cli.js -> dist/vendor.js
L8: var os$4 = require('node:os');
L9: var require$$2$4 = require('node:https');
L10: var require$$1$7 = require('node:http');
...
L32: var node_buffer = require$$0$b;
L33: var childProcess = require('node:child_process');
L34: var require$$0$j = require$$0$i;
...
L46: var require$$6$4 = Pi;
L47: var require$$0$o = require('node:dns');
L48: var require$$0$p = require('node:net');
...
L954: var _a$1, _b$1, _c$1;
L955: const minNodeVersion$1 = process && process.env && process.env.YARGS_MIN_NODE_VERSION ? Number(process.env.YARGS_MIN_NODE_VERSION) : 12;
L956: const nodeVersion$1 = (_b$1 = (_a$1 = process === null || process === void 0 ? void 0 : process.versions) === null || _a$1 === void 0 ? v
```

### 16. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/socket@1.13.0/dist/cli.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches persistence behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable persistence chain: manifest.exports -> dist/cli.js
L21: var spawn = require('../external/@[redacted]');
L22: var childProcess = require('node:child_process');
L23: var bin = require('../external/@socketsecurity/registry/lib/bin');
...
L85: if (!result.ok) {
L86: process.exitCode = result.code ?? 1;
L87: }
...
L187: titles: Object.keys(data.top_five_alert_types),
L188: data: Object.values(data.top_five_alert_types)
L189: });
...
L1079: const {
L1080: cwd = process.cwd(),
L1081: defaultBranch,
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 19. Medium: Ships Native Binary
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/manifest-scripts/dotnet-tool/Microsoft.Build.Locator.dll
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/socket@1.13.0/dist/manifest-scripts/dotnet-tool/Microsoft.Build.Locator.dll>)

Package ships native binary artifacts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dist/manifest-scripts/dotnet-tool/Microsoft.Build.Locator.dll
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 44576
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 20. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/socket-completion.bash
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/socket@1.13.0/dist/socket-completion.bash>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = dist/socket-completion.bash
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 8951
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 21. Medium: Ships Compressed Blob
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/manifest-scripts/maven-extension/coana-maven-extension.jar
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/socket@1.13.0/dist/manifest-scripts/maven-extension/coana-maven-extension.jar>)

Package ships compressed or archive-like blobs.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dist/manifest-scripts/maven-extension/coana-maven-extension.jar
kind = compressed_blob
sizeBytes = 41037
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 22. High: Ships High Entropy Blob
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/manifest-scripts/maven-extension/coana-maven-extension.jar
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/socket@1.13.0/dist/manifest-scripts/maven-extension/coana-maven-extension.jar>)

Package ships high-entropy non-source blobs.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dist/manifest-scripts/maven-extension/coana-maven-extension.jar
kind = high_entropy_blob
sizeBytes = 41037
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 23. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/vendor.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/socket@1.13.0/dist/vendor.js>)

Package contains source files above the normal full-analysis size ceiling.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/vendor.js
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 7030122
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 24. Low: Nested Archive Needs Inspection
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/manifest-scripts/maven-extension/coana-maven-extension.jar
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/socket@1.13.0/dist/manifest-scripts/maven-extension/coana-maven-extension.jar>)

Package ships a nested archive or MCP bundle that was inventoried but not recursively analyzed.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dist/manifest-scripts/maven-extension/coana-maven-extension.jar
kind = nested_archive_needs_inspection
sizeBytes = 41037
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 25. 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.

### 26. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/vendor.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/socket@1.13.0/dist/vendor.js>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_path_work_budget_exceeded; limitedFiles = 9
```

### 27. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/socket@1.13.0/dist/cli.js>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = socket@1.11.2
matchedIdentity = npm:c29ja2V0:1.11.2
similarity = 0.992
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 2
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 105
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 2

### Published dependency entries
- @socketsecurity/socket-patch 2.0.0 (Dependency)
- form-data 4.0.6 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** socket
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.13.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-11-03T13:00:45.647Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T08:38:47.109Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-03T13:08:22.364Z
- **Known versions:** 50
- **Latest version:** 1.13.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** CLI for Socket.dev
- **Author:** Socket Inc
- **Maintainers:** feross, socket-bot
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18.20.8, pnpm: \>=10.33.0
- **Artifact files:** 1041
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 23,620,329 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/socket/v/1.13.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/SocketDev/socket-cli>)