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MalDet · Static Security Report

redis-ui

github.com/patrikx3/redis-ui
Scanned 24 September 2026 at 10:00  ·  Report generated 29 October 2026  ·  JavaScript  ·  808 stars
Overall assessment
Medium
Combined score 57  ·  50 findings after filtering

Summary

This repository has a medium vulnerability score of 53.0, which means there are several insecure coding patterns that an attacker could exploit to cause problems like denial-of-service or data theft. The most critical issues involve the use of regular expressions that might slow down your application and allowing the container to run as root, both of which require immediate attention before deployment. While some findings suggest potential malicious intent, many of these appear to be standard security checks rather than signs of a hidden attack, so they are not necessarily proof of bad faith behavior. However, because the code allows users to input paths that could lead to file traversal issues and uses loose version constraints for dependencies, it is safer to treat this as a risky project until those specific vulnerabilities are fixed.

Written by a language model running locally on the scanning machine, from the findings in this report. The risk levels above and below were decided by the scoring model, not by this summary.

Risk, by type

MalDet scores two different questions separately, because they call for different responses: code can be badly written without being hostile, and hostile code is not always badly written.

Vulnerability
Medium (53)
Insecure coding an attacker could exploit. Usually mistakes, and usually fixable in place.
Malicious pattern
Low (4)
Signs the code may be trying to do harm: hidden payloads, credential access, persistence, exfiltration.

What each detector found

DetectorLooks for HighMediumLowTotal
semgrep Insecure coding patterns across many languages 1 29 1 31
dep_checker Vulnerable, unpinned or typosquatted dependencies 0 0 15 15
yara Signatures of malicious behaviour in source files 1 0 1 2
guarddog Malicious package and install-time behaviour 0 1 1 2

29 of 50 findings were rated more likely genuine than noise by the classifier.

Evidence

Identical findings are grouped, so a single rule firing many times takes one row. Ordered worst first. “Seen” is how many times that finding occurred.

SeverityDetectorFindingSeenExample location
high semgrep By not specifying a USER, a program in the container may run as 'root'. This is a security hazard. If an attacker can control a process running as root, they may have control over the container. Ensure that the last USER in a Dockerfile is a USER other than 'root'. 1 /Dockerfile:17
high yara YARA rule matched: detect_persistence_mechanism — Modifies a startup/scheduling location - legitimate application code essentially never does this 1 /artifacts/readme/start-up-server.md
medium semgrep RegExp() called with a `year` function argument, this might allow an attacker to cause a Regular Expression Denial-of-Service (ReDoS) within your application as RegExP blocks the main thread. For this reason, it is recommended to use hardcoded regexes instead. If your regex is run on user-controlled 1 /scripts/fix-change-log.js:23
medium semgrep Service 'registry' is running with a writable root filesystem. This may allow malicious applications to download and run additional payloads, or modify container files. If an application inside a container has to save something temporarily consider using a tmpfs. Add 'read_only: true' to this servic 1 /docker-compose.yml:4
medium semgrep Service 'registry' allows for privilege escalation via setuid or setgid binaries. Add 'no-new-privileges:true' in 'security_opt' to prevent this. 1 /docker-compose.yml:4
medium guarddog Detects unicode homoglyphs and uncommon characters used for obfuscation [threat-runtime-obfuscation-unicode] 1 /src/strings/ky/index.mjs:116
medium semgrep No validation of origin is done by the addEventListener API. It may be possible to exploit this flaw to perform Cross Origin attacks such as Cross-Site Scripting(XSS). 2 /src/electron/window/main/onload.mjs:164
medium semgrep The target origin of the window.postMessage() API is set to "*". This could allow for information disclosure due to the possibility of any origin allowed to receive the message. 2 /src/electron/window/main/onload.mjs:93
medium semgrep GitHub Actions step uses a mutable tag or branch reference. Tags and branch names can be silently repointed by the action owner, enabling supply-chain attacks — as seen in the trivy-action and kics-github-action compromises. Pin the reference to a full 40-character commit SHA instead, e.g. `uses: ac 20 /.github/workflows/build.yml:265
medium semgrep Detected possible user input going into a `path.join` or `path.resolve` function. This could possibly lead to a path traversal vulnerability, where the attacker can access arbitrary files stored in the file system. Instead, be sure to sanitize or validate user input first. 1 /scripts/fix-change-log.js:22
medium semgrep In Kubernetes, each pod runs in its own isolated environment with its own set of security policies. However, certain container images may contain `setuid` or `setgid` binaries that could allow an attacker to perform privilege escalation and gain access to sensitive resources. To mitigate this risk, 1 /k8s/manifests/deployment.yaml:18
low guarddog Detects reading of environment variables (credential access, often contains secrets) [threat-runtime-environment-read] 1 /scripts/notarize.js:16
low semgrep When running containers in Kubernetes, it's important to ensure that they are properly secured to prevent privilege escalation attacks. One potential vulnerability is when a container is allowed to run applications as the root user, which could allow an attacker to gain access to sensitive resou 1 /k8s/manifests/deployment.yaml:15
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'p3x-redis-ui-server^2026.10.100' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'rimraf^6.1.3' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: '@fontsource/roboto^5.3.0' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'playwright^1.62.1' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'p3x-redis-ui-material^2026.10.100' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'node-fetch^3.3.2' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'electron^44.1.1' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'electron-updater^6.8.9' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'electron-store^11.0.2' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'electron-builder^26.15.3' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'corifeus-utils^2026.4.142' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'corifeus-builder^2026.4.163' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'copyfiles^2.4.1' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'axios^1.20.0' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: '@playwright/test^1.62.1' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low yara YARA rule matched: detect_downloader — Downloads a remote resource - common and low-signal alone; see detect_download_and_execute for the composite version 1 /README.md

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