socket@1.2.1
CLI for Socket.dev
AI Security Review
scanned 1mo ago · by lpm-firewall-aiStatic inspection found a user-invoked Socket CLI and no install-time hook, credential harvesting, persistence, or agent-control mutation. The reviewed behavior is consistent with a security CLI.
Static reason
High-risk behavior combination matched malicious policy.
Trigger
A user must invoke a Socket CLI command.
Impact
No confirmed malicious impact was established.
Mechanism
The launcher passes user arguments to the bundled CLI; login is interactive.
AI rationale
Static inspection found a user-invoked Socket CLI and no install-time hook, credential harvesting, persistence, or agent-control mutation. The reviewed behavior is consistent with a security CLI.
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 90.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The manifest exposes CLI binaries and its scripts shown are build-related; no automatic install lifecycle hook was found.
- The CLI launcher starts the bundled CLI with the caller's arguments only when the command is invoked.
- Login asks interactively for a Socket API token before configuring the client.
- The inspected required bundled paths, including the Maven archive, showed no package-specific attack behavior.
Evidence against
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsEvalFilesystemNativeBindingsNetworkShell
HighEntropyStringsPossibleObfuscationUrlStrings
Source & flagged code
17 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 Critical9 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
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
HighSemantic Analysis Limiteddist/vendor.js
Medium
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to socket@1.2.1.
See all versions of socket for other recorded verdicts.
- Review the evidence and your use of socket@1.2.1 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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