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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/stream-chat/v/9.50.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/stream-chat/v/9.50.2.md"
package: "stream-chat"
report_status: "published"
title: "stream-chat@9.50.2 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "9.50.2"
---

# stream-chat@9.50.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 9 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 9.50.2
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The scanner's lifecycle finding is a false positive for this published artifact: its guarded Husky helper is absent, so postinstall performs no mutation. Source inspection shows normal, explicitly invoked chat SDK networking and no concrete malicious chain.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 97.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-16T09:46:40.945Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-16T09:47:56.097Z
- **Download time:** 1029 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3847 ms
- **AI review time:** 70276 ms
- **Total time:** 75152 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:** No confirmed malicious attack surface is established. The inert postinstall guard references an absent helper, while runtime networking is the expected Stream Chat SDK API/WebSocket behavior.

- **Trigger:** Client construction followed by explicit Stream Chat API or WebSocket use; package installation only evaluates the inert postinstall guard.

- **Impact:** No confirmed unconsented execution, persistence, file mutation, credential exfiltration, or remote payload loading.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, src/index.ts, src/client.ts, dist/esm/index.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-07-16T09:47:56.097Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** explicit SDK HTTP/WebSocket requests to the configured Stream Chat endpoint

- **Rationale:** The scanner's lifecycle finding is a false positive for this published artifact: its guarded Husky helper is absent, so postinstall performs no mutation. Source inspection shows normal, explicitly invoked chat SDK networking and no concrete malicious chain.

- **Files touched:** package.json, src/index.ts, src/client.ts, dist/esm/index.mjs

- **Network endpoints:** https://chat.stream-io-api.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 97.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** \`package.json\` defines a \`postinstall\` command., \`package.json\` also defines \`prepare\`, which runs the package build command.

- **Evidence against:** The published package has no \`scripts/\` directory or \`scripts/install-husky.mjs\`; \`postinstall\` short-circuits without importing anything., \`prepare\` invokes \`yarn run build\`; no install-time arbitrary shell, download, or agent-control mutation is present in the published files., \`src/index.ts\` is exports-only, with no import-time filesystem, process, or network action., \`src/client.ts\` sends SDK requests only after client construction and API method use, defaulting to the Stream Chat API host., No source use of child-process execution, file writes, credential harvesting, or AI-agent configuration paths was found.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to stream-chat@9.50.2.

- Review the evidence and your use of stream-chat@9.50.2 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/stream-chat@9.50.2/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node -e "require('fs').existsSync('scripts/install-husky.mjs') && import('./scripts/install-husky.mjs')"
```

### 2. Critical: Red Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 95.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/stream-chat@9.50.2/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script matches a deterministic static-gate block pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node -e "require('fs').existsSync('scripts/install-husky.mjs') && import('./scripts/install-husky.mjs')"
```

### 3. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

### 4. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 9. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepare
- **Dependencies:** 9
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 23
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 9

### Published dependency entries
- @types/jsonwebtoken ^9.0.8 (Dependency)
- @types/ws ^8.18.1 (Dependency)
- axios ^1.16.1 (Dependency)
- base64-js ^1.5.1 (Dependency)
- form-data ^4.0.5 (Dependency)
- isomorphic-ws ^5.0.0 (Dependency)
- jsonwebtoken ^9.0.3 (Dependency)
- linkifyjs ^4.3.3 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.20.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** stream-chat
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 9.50.2
- **License:** SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE
- **Version published:** 2026-07-16T09:39:38.938Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-05T02:21:13.686Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-05T03:02:35.804Z
- **Known versions:** 11
- **Latest version:** 9.54.4
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** JS SDK for the Stream Chat API
- **Author:** GetStream.io, Inc.
- **Maintainers:** tbarbugli, tschellenbach, vishtree, stream-release-bot, vangalilea88, zita.szupera, caleb.murphy, martincupela, link512
- **Keywords:** chat, messaging, conversation, react, stream, getstream, getstream.io
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 265
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 8,085,832 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/stream-chat/v/9.50.2>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/GetStream/stream-chat-js>)
- [Homepage](<https://getstream.io/chat/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/GetStream/stream-chat-js/issues>)
