Notes: This is a legitimate browser installation helper script that is part of Microsoft Playwright's testing framework. The script downloads and installs Microsoft Edge Dev browser packages on macOS systems. While the script does have security weaknesses (downloads packages from user-supplied URLs without integrity checks and installs them with sudo privileges), this appears to be intentional functionality for automated testing environments where the URL would be controlled and trusted. The script is not malware but rather a utility for test automation that assumes it will be used in controlled environments with trusted package sources.

Confidence: 1.00

Severity: 0.60

From: ? → npm/playwright@1.57.0 → npm/playwright-core@1.57.0

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