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Audited by Socket on Sep 6, 2026
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AnomalyAnomalyreferences/node-essentials.md
LOWAnomalyLOW
references/node-essentials.md
No overt malicious behavior (e.g., exfiltration, reverse shells, crypto-mining, credential theft, obfuscated payloads) is evident in the provided fragment. The primary risk is operational/supply-chain execution surface: it directly executes shell commands and spawns a local Node script artifact using a relative working directory with inherited environment. Combined with weak HTTP hardening (permissive CORS and unhandled JSON.parse on untrusted input), this warrants deeper review of any executed scripts and surrounding package lifecycle hooks. Confidence is limited because the contents of the spawned local script (and cleanup()) are not included.
Confidence: 52%Severity: 58%
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