ps-list — Greenflagged

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

sindresorhus

Keywords

psprocprocessprocesseslistrunningtasklist

Accepted risks

Findings the reviewer chose to accept rather than block on.

Source	Rule	Reason	Accepted by	When
npm-metadata	bundled-binaries	AI (npm-metadata): fastlist-*.exe are documented Windows helper binaries for process listing; stable across versions of this package.	ai	2026/04/29
semgrep	semgrep:env-spread	AI (semgrep): env spread is used to pass environment to a child process with LC_ALL override; standard subprocess pattern, not exfiltration.	ai	2026/04/29

Versions (showing 1 of 1)

Version	Deps	Published
9.0.0	0 / 3	2025-09-26

v9.0.0

4 findings

HIGH Bundled binary files (2) npm-metadata

Package contains compiled binaries that could be backdoors: • vendor/fastlist-0.3.0-x64.exe • vendor/fastlist-0.3.0-x86.exe

HIGH env-spread: index.js:208 semgrep

Spreading entire process.env into an object — may capture all secrets Source: https://github.com/sindresorhus/ps-list/blob/9670043961725d24b462ba2500e86528c150112b/index.js#L208 206 | maxBuffer: DEFAULT_MAX_BUFFER, 207 | encoding: 'utf8', > 208 | env: { 209 | ...process.env, 210 | LC_ALL: 'C',

HIGH env-spread: index.js:258 semgrep

Spreading entire process.env into an object — may capture all secrets Source: https://github.com/sindresorhus/ps-list/blob/9670043961725d24b462ba2500e86528c150112b/index.js#L258 256 | maxBuffer: DEFAULT_MAX_BUFFER, 257 | encoding: 'utf8', > 258 | env: { 259 | ...process.env, 260 | LC_ALL: 'C',

LOW No provenance attestation provenance

Package was published without Sigstore provenance. Only ~12% of npm packages have provenance, so this is common but not ideal.