socket@1.8.0
CLI for Socket.dev
AI Security Review
scanned 23d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe source supports ordinary CLI and package-manager functionality, with no install lifecycle hook or confirmed attack chain. The scanner matches correspond to generated-code compilation and CI token handling scoped to the runner-provided endpoint.
Static reason
High-risk behavior combination matched malicious policy.
Trigger
A user invokes the Socket CLI or one of its package-manager wrappers.
Impact
The inspected behavior does not establish credential exfiltration, unrequested account actions, or install-time mutation.
Mechanism
The reported dynamic code compiles terminal capabilities or generated validators; the inspected CI token helper requests a token through the runner-provided endpoint.
AI rationale
The source supports ordinary CLI and package-manager functionality, with no install lifecycle hook or confirmed attack chain. The scanner matches correspond to generated-code compilation and CI token handling scoped to the runner-provided endpoint.
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 93.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The package manifest defines CLI executables and no install lifecycle hook; bin/cli.js forwards user arguments to the CLI.
- The terminal library compiles generated terminal capability code, and the bundled validator compiles generated schema code.
- The bundled CI token helper uses the GitHub Actions runner-provided URL and token to request an OIDC token.
- The Maven extension is invoked as part of Maven analysis and its inspected archive inventory contains Coana extension classes.
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@1.8.0.
See all versions of socket for other recorded verdicts.
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- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
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