jira-browser-fetch
Audited by Socket on May 19, 2026
2 alerts found:
AnomalySecurityNo explicit indicators of malware or overtly malicious behavior are present in the provided snippet because it is documentation describing a legitimate browser-authenticated Jira fetch workflow. The primary security concern is the high-privilege handling of live SSO cookies via Chrome remote debugging and the potential for session mix-ups when reusing shared DevTools ports/profiles. Because the actual script implementation and referenced dependencies are not included, enforcement of network/file-path safety controls cannot be verified, leaving moderate residual security risk.
This module is primarily legitimate-looking DevTools automation for SSO/session verification, but it includes a powerful credential-harvesting primitive: it extracts real authentication cookies from a local Chromium session via CDP Network.getCookies and supplies them to caller code. It also launches the browser with permissive remote-debugging/origin relaxation (--remote-allow-origins=*), which increases potential impact if the local debugging port is reachable or misused. No explicit malware/exfiltration to remote domains is present in this snippet, but the capability is sufficiently sensitive that the module should be treated as high-risk and used only with strict input control and isolation of the browser profile/debugging context.