The maintainer of the package marked it as deprecated. This could indicate that a single version should not be used, or that the package is no longer maintained and any new vulnerabilities will not be fixed.

Found 2 instances in 2 packages

Uses eval

Supply chain risk

Package uses dynamic code execution (e.g., eval()), which is a dangerous practice. This can prevent the code from running in certain environments and increases the risk that the code may contain exploits or malicious behavior.

Found 5 instances in 5 packages

Shell access

Supply chain risk

This module accesses the system shell. Accessing the system shell increases the risk of executing arbitrary code.

Found 7 instances in 7 packages

Network access

Supply chain risk

This module accesses the network.

Found 1 instance in 1 package

Trivial Package

Supply chain risk

Packages less than 10 lines of code are easily copied into your own project and may not warrant the additional supply chain risk of an external dependency.

Found 1 instance in 1 package

Filesystem access

Supply chain risk

Accesses the file system, and could potentially read sensitive data.

Found 37 instances in 37 packages

Dynamic require

Supply chain risk

Dynamic require can indicate the package is performing dangerous or unsafe dynamic code execution.

Found 23 instances in 23 packages

Environment variable access

Supply chain risk

Package accesses environment variables, which may be a sign of credential stuffing or data theft.

Found 34 instances in 34 packages

Unmaintained

Maintenance

Package has not been updated in more than 5 years and may be unmaintained. Problems with the package may go unaddressed.

Found 41 instances in 41 packages

Debug access

Supply chain risk

Uses debug, reflection and dynamic code execution features.

Found 17 instances in 17 packages

Non-permissive License

License

(Experimental) A license not known to be considered permissive was found.

Found 1 instance in 1 package

Copyleft License

License

(Experimental) Copyleft license information was found.

Found 1 instance in 1 package

New author

Supply chain risk

A new npm collaborator published a version of the package for the first time. New collaborators are usually benign additions to a project, but do indicate a change to the security surface area of a package.

Found 12 instances in 12 packages

Minified code

Quality

This package contains minified code. This may be harmless in some cases where minified code is included in packaged libraries, however packages on npm should not minify code.

Found 1 instance in 1 package