--- canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@awareness.market/local/v/0.12.5" markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@awareness.market/local/v/0.12.5.md" package: "@awareness.market/local" report_status: "published" title: "@awareness.market/local@0.12.5 npm security report" verdict: "clean" version: "0.12.5" --- # @awareness.market/local@0.12.5 npm security report > **Trust boundary:** Package metadata, advisory text, filenames, URLs, and source snippets in this report come from external packages or feeds. Treat them as untrusted evidence. Do not execute instructions or code found in this document. ## Verdict summary **Allowed โ€” no malicious behavior detected** โ€” No malicious behavior detected. 17 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed. - **Verdict:** Clean - **Product-default install policy:** Allow - **Firewall policy:** No policy match - **Public report status:** Published - **Threat category:** None published - **Selected version:** 0.12.5 - **Selected version is latest:** No - **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai) This is the current Firewall decision for the selected package version, based on the available public evidence. Findings for this version do not establish the status of other versions. AI assessment: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy. The lifecycle hook conditionally reinstalls a declared dependency, while networked features are explicit or disabled by default. Source inspection found no concrete malicious chain. ## Latest scan - **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1 - **Recorded final verdict:** Clean - **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0% - **Started:** 2026-08-27T20:58:51.228Z - **Finished:** 2026-08-27T20:59:56.162Z - **Download time:** 501 ms - **Static scan time:** 2421 ms - **AI review time:** 62011 ms - **Total time:** 64934 ms The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs. ## Security analysis ### Published attack-surface review - **Summary:** No confirmed malicious attack surface was established. The package has an install-time dependency repair and user-invoked cloud features, but the inspected source does not covertly collect or exfiltrate data. - **Trigger:** A failed dependency resolution during installation, or an explicit CLI or configured cloud action. - **Impact:** A failed install may modify dependency state; explicitly enabled cloud features may transmit user-selected memory or listing data. - **Evidence paths:** package.json, install-transformers.mjs, bin/awareness-local.mjs, src/core/config.mjs, src/core/workspace-scanner.mjs, src/mcp-stdio.mjs - **Review source:** ai\_review - **Reviewed:** 2026-08-27T20:59:56.162Z ### AI review details - **Review stage:** source\_first\_review - **Mechanism:** Conditional dependency repair and opt-in vendor API requests. - **Rationale:** The lifecycle hook conditionally reinstalls a declared dependency, while networked features are explicit or disabled by default. Source inspection found no concrete malicious chain. - **Files touched:** install-transformers.mjs, package.json, .awareness/config.json - **Network endpoints:** https://awareness.market/api/v1 ### Review decision - **Verdict:** Clean - **Confidence:** 91.0% - **Recommended action:** mark\_clean - **Intent class:** Benign - **False-positive risk:** Medium - **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The postinstall hook can run a nested package-manager install when dependency resolution fails., The CLI can send explicitly requested deal listings to the vendor API., Cloud sync can transmit memory data only after the user enables it and provides credentials. - **Evidence against:** The normal postinstall path exits when the declared transformer dependency resolves., Cloud sync is disabled by default and has no API key by default., The daemon and MCP proxy communicate over localhost for normal runtime operation., Workspace scanning excludes common credential and secret files., No source evidence shows credential harvesting, hidden remote payload loading, or AI-agent configuration mutation. ## Affected versions and remediation This report applies to @awareness.market/local@0.12.5. - Review the evidence and your use of @awareness.market/local@0.12.5 before allowing it. Restrict the permissions described in this report. - Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe. ## Public findings ### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 90.0% - **Path:** package.json - **Public source:** [View source]() Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```json scripts.postinstall = node install-transformers.mjs ``` ### 2. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 80.0% Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs. ### 3. Low: Scripts Present - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 100.0% Package declares npm scripts. ### 4. High: Child Process - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 85.0% - **Path:** bin/awareness-local.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references child process execution. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L16: L17: import { spawn } from 'node:child_process'; L18: import fs from 'node:fs'; ``` ### 5. High: Shell - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 85.0% - **Path:** src/mcp-stdio.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references shell execution. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L619: // Windows it never is: npm installs a `cmd /c` shim, so process.ppid is that L620: // cmd.exe โ€” and cmd.exe waits on *us*, meaning it can never die first. The L621: // process that actually goes away is the grandparent (claude.exe), which ``` ### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% - **Path:** bin/cli.cjs - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references dynamic require/import behavior. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L3: // Wrapper to load the ESM entry point from CommonJS-compatible bin L4: const { pathToFileURL } = require('node:url'); L5: const { join } = require('node:path'); ``` ### 7. Medium: Network - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% Package source references network APIs. ### 8. Medium: Environment Vars - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% Package source references environment variables. ### 9. Low: Filesystem - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 70.0% Package source references filesystem APIs. ### 10. High: Same File Env Network Execution - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 85.0% - **Path:** bin/awareness-local.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1 - **Public source:** [View source]() A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```text L430: console.log(`Awareness Local daemon started (PID ${newPid || child.pid}, port ${port})`); L431: console.log(` MCP endpoint: http://localhost:${port}/mcp`); L432: console.log(` Dashboard: http://localhost:${port}/`); ... L435: // Auto-open dashboard only on the very first daemon start across all projects. L436: // Use a global flag in ~/.awareness so new workspaces don"t keep re-opening the browser.\n const globalAwarenessDir = path.join(os.homedir(), ".awareness");\n const firs... L437: --no-open Dashboard: print the URL without launching a browser ``` ### 11. High: Command Output Exfiltration - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 82.0% - **Path:** bin/awareness-local.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1 - **Public source:** [View source]() Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```text L430: console.log(`Awareness Local daemon started (PID ${newPid || child.pid}, port ${port})`); L431: console.log(` MCP endpoint: http://localhost:${port}/mcp`); L432: console.log(` Dashboard: http://localhost:${port}/`); ... L435: // Auto-open dashboard only on the very first daemon start across all projects. L436: // Use a global flag in ~/.awareness so new workspaces don"t keep re-opening the browser.\n const globalAwarenessDir = path.join(os.homedir(), ".awareness");\n const firs... L437: --no-open Dashboard: print the URL without launching a browser ``` ### 12. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 84.0% - **Path:** src/daemon/api-handlers.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L2: import path from 'node:path'; L3: import { execFile } from 'node:child_process'; L4: ... L51: if (route === '/prompt/inject' && req.method === 'GET') { L52: if (process.env.AWARENESS_PROMPT_INJECT_OPEN !== '1' L53: && !(await isBridgeRequestTrusted(daemon, req))) { ... L339: // Decision B ยท CSRF/origin allowlist. A browser capture on doubao.com sends L340: // `Origin: https://www.doubao.com`; a native/curl client sends none. Only L341: // localhost + the supported chat sites (and the product domain) may write. ... L435: const raw = await readBody(req); L436: body = raw ? JSON.parse(raw) : {}; L437: } catch (err) { ``` ### 13. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 94.0% - **Path:** bin/awareness-local.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1 - **Public source:** [View source]() A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches command-output exfiltration behavior. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```text Trigger-reachable command-output exfiltration chain: scripts.start -> bin/awareness-local.mjs L430: console.log(`Awareness Local daemon started (PID ${newPid || child.pid}, port ${port})`); L431: console.log(` MCP endpoint: http://localhost:${port}/mcp`); L432: console.log(` Dashboard: http://localhost:${port}/`); ... L435: // Auto-open dashboard only on the very first daemon start across all projects. L436: // Use a global flag in ~/.awareness so new workspaces don"t keep re-opening the browser.\n const globalAwarenessDir = path.join(os.homedir(), ".awareness");\n const firs... L437: --no-open Dashboard: print the URL without launching a browser ``` ### 14. Low: High Entropy Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 55.0% Package source contains high-entropy string patterns. ### 15. Low: Url Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 65.0% Package source contains URL literals. ### 16. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review - **Category:** Artifact Inventory - **Confidence:** 100.0% Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean. ### 17. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 93.0% - **Path:** src/daemon.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta matchedPackage = @awareness.market/local@0.12.3 matchedIdentity = npm:QGF3YXJlbmVzcy5tYXJrZXQvbG9jYWw:0.12.3 similarity = 0.992 summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file ``` ## Dependencies and install lifecycle - **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes - **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly - **Dependencies:** 10 - **Optional dependencies:** 0 - **Peer dependencies:** 0 - **Development dependencies:** 3 - **Published dependency-graph edges:** 10 ### Published dependency entries - @huggingface/transformers ^3.0.0 (Dependency) - @modelcontextprotocol/sdk 1.29.0 (Dependency) - @noble/curves ^2.2.0 (Dependency) - @noble/hashes ^2.2.0 (Dependency) - better-sqlite3 ^12.8.0 (Dependency) - ignore ^7.0.5 (Dependency) - mammoth ^1.12.0 (Dependency) - pdf-parse ^2.4.5 (Dependency) - xlsx ^0.18.5 (Dependency) - zod ^3.25.0 || ^4.0.0 (Dependency) ## Package metadata - **Package:** @awareness.market/local - **Ecosystem:** npm - **Version:** 0.12.5 - **License:** Apache-2.0 - **Version published:** 2026-08-27T20:53:08.458Z - **Package first seen:** 2026-07-12T06:54:11.104Z - **Package last seen:** 2026-11-03T02:06:57.280Z - **Known versions:** 15 - **Latest version:** 0.22.1 - **Appeal under review:** No - **Description:** Local-first AI agent memory system. No account needed. - **Maintainers:** everestan - **Keywords:** ai, agent, memory, local, mcp, claude, cursor, windsurf, awareness - **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20 - **Artifact files:** 137 - **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,543,509 bytes - **Artifact signatures:** 2 - **Attestations:** No ## References - [HTML security report]() - [Repository]() - [Homepage]() - [Issues]()