[Bug]: Security issues when I'm installing new playwright version from 1.49.1 to 1.50.1

[rafael3686]

Version

1.50.1

Steps to reproduce

npm i @playwright/test@latest
npx playwright install

Expected behavior

Should be installed successfully

Actual behavior

Additional context

Hello, I am having some issues, and I can't use the latest playwright version.

And I received this information about the cyber security team:

"This tool is essentially a Potentially Unwanted Program, as it is used by threat actors. We don’t want to globally allow it and would want to create a machine-specific exclusion."

Environment

Windows 11

[mxschmitt]

The program was used before v1,50, now its just downloaded optionally via the CDN instead of shipped via the NPM zip. The source code of it is here.

Does this help you? Usually we require it to run Playwright, its a tool to check missing dependencies on Windows.

[mxschmitt]

Closing as per above.