socket@1.4.0
CLI for Socket.dev
AI Security Review
scanned 1mo ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe inspected source supports ordinary CLI and dependency-analysis functionality, with no concrete malicious chain identified. Process execution, generated functions, and the bundled Maven extension are aligned with those operations.
Static reason
High-risk behavior combination matched malicious policy.
Trigger
Users invoke the CLI or its package-manager wrappers; no automatic install hook was found.
Impact
No malicious credential export, destructive action, or unconsented agent-control mutation was established.
Mechanism
The CLI launches local tools and bundled analysis helpers; inspected dynamic functions implement formatting and validation.
AI rationale
The inspected source supports ordinary CLI and dependency-analysis functionality, with no concrete malicious chain identified. Process execution, generated functions, and the bundled Maven extension are aligned with those operations.
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 87.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- package.json has no registry-install lifecycle hooks or runtime self-dependency.
- bin/cli.js launches the bundled CLI with user arguments.
- The terminal library generates formatting functions, and dist/vendor.js compiles schema validators.
- The bundled packing library runs prepack scripts for requested directory packages.
- The Maven archive contains a dependency-record engine; the CLI supplies its task and record-output arguments.
- Telemetry sanitization redacts API-token arguments.
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@1.4.0.
See all versions of socket for other recorded verdicts.
- Review the evidence and your use of socket@1.4.0 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.
Evidence last updated: .
Think this verdict is wrong? Dispute it on GitHub or read how reports are produced.