bal-util
Common utility functions for Node.js used and maintained by Benjamin Lupton
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MIT
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Provenance
Supply chain provenance
Status for the latest visible version.
No SLSA provenance
npm registry signatures
gitHead linked
Without SLSA provenance there is no cryptographic link between this tarball and the public source — the axios compromise (March 2026) relied on exactly this gap.
Maintainers
baluptonbevryme
Keywords
javascriptflowcontrolasyncsynctasksbatchutilityutilutilitiespathspatheventseventmodulemodulescomparecomparisonhtml
Accepted risks
Findings the reviewer chose to accept rather than block on.
| Source | Rule | Reason | Accepted by | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| provenance | no-provenance | AI (provenance): Package is 5455 days old; provenance attestation did not exist when it was published. This is expected and stable across all versions of this package. | ai | |
| phantom-deps | phantom-dep:request | AI (phantom-deps): The request dependency is declared in package.json and referenced in config; minor structural issue with no security implications for this package. | ai | |
| phantom-deps | phantom-dep:ambi | AI (phantom-deps): ambi is explicitly listed in dependencies and is a legitimate Bevry utility package used by bal-util. Phantom dep detection is a false positive here. | ai | |
| provenance | publisher-changed | AI (provenance): bevryme is Benjamin Lupton's organization npm account (bevry org); this is a documented legitimate transition, not a compromise. Consistent across all Bevry packages. | ai | |
| maintainer-change | maintainer-added | AI (maintainer-change): bevryme is the Bevry organization account owned by the original author Benjamin Lupton. Legitimate org account transition. | ai | |
| semgrep | semgrep:dynamic-require | AI (semgrep): Dynamic require is an intentional feature of bal-util's module management utilities (cache-busting reload). Not a security risk in this context. | ai | |
| semgrep | semgrep:child-process-import | AI (semgrep): child_process.spawn is used as part of a documented process-execution utility in this general-purpose library. No malicious command construction present. | ai |