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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@cachly-dev/mcp-server/v/0.10.117"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@cachly-dev/mcp-server/v/0.10.117.md"
package: "@cachly-dev/mcp-server"
report_status: "published"
title: "@cachly-dev/mcp-server@0.10.117 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.10.117"
---

# @cachly-dev/mcp-server@0.10.117 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 18 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.10.117
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

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.

Static analysis flagged 18 finding(s) at 72.0% confidence. This version is warn-only unless an AI or security-team review confirms malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 72.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-04T10:08:11.961Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-04T10:08:14.331Z
- **Download time:** 510 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1859 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 2370 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

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @cachly-dev/mcp-server@0.10.117.

- Review the evidence and your use of @cachly-dev/mcp-server@0.10.117 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](<https://unpkg.com/@cachly-dev/mcp-server@0.10.117/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.js
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@cachly-dev/mcp-server@0.10.117/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.js
```

### 3. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/bench/cachly-bench.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@cachly-dev/mcp-server@0.10.117/dist/src/bench/cachly-bench.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L40: get(key) { cmds.push(key); return this; },
L41: async exec() {
L42: return cmds.map(k => [null, store.get(k) ?? null]);
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package source references shell execution.

### 6. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

### 7. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/tools.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@cachly-dev/mcp-server@0.10.117/dist/src/tools.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2315: 'Existing lessons are NOT overwritten by default — pass overwrite=true to replace them. ' +
L2316: 'Example: brain_import(instance_id="...", share_id="abc123", topic_prefix="imported")',
L2317: inputSchema: {
```

### 8. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/confidence.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@cachly-dev/mcp-server@0.10.117/dist/src/confidence.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: // ── Confidence Decay Config ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
L3: export const CONFIDENCE_WARN_DAYS = Number(process.env.CACHLY_CONFIDENCE_WARN_DAYS ?? 5);
L4: export const CONFIDENCE_STALE_DAYS = Number(process.env.CACHLY_CONFIDENCE_STALE_DAYS ?? 10);
```

### 9. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 10. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 11. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 12. High: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/handlers/cache.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@cachly-dev/mcp-server@0.10.117/dist/src/handlers/cache.js>)

Source combines credential-like environment material and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L31: try {
L32: pretty = JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(value), null, 2);
L33: }
...
L143: try {
L144: const inst = await apiFetch(`/api/v1/instances/${instance_id}`);
L145: if (inst.vector_token) {
L146: const vectorBase = process.env.CACHLY_VECTOR_URL ?? 'https://api.cachly.dev';
L147: const statsRes = await fetch(`${vectorBase}/v1/sem/${inst.vector_token}/stats`, {
...
L216: headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
L217: body: JSON.stringify(searchPayload),
L218: signal: AbortSignal.timeout(8000),
```

### 13. High: Host Fingerprint Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@cachly-dev/mcp-server@0.10.117/dist/src/index.js>)

Source collects local host identity data and sends it to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5: import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
L6: import { execFile } from 'node:child_process';
L7: // True only when this file is the entry point (not imported by tests or other modules).
...
L40: * Configuration (env vars):
L41: *   CACHLY_API_URL      – default https://api.cachly.dev
L42: *   CACHLY_JWT          – your JWT (Keycloak access token)
...
L53: // Reassigned (if at all) before any network call is made.
L54: let API_URL = process.env.CACHLY_API_URL ?? 'https://api.cachly.dev';
L55: let JWT = process.env.CACHLY_JWT ?? '';
L56: const _EMBED_MODEL = process.env.CACHLY_EMBED_MODEL ?? '';
L57: // Resolve the package version at runtime from package.json so the telemetry
L58: // `version` field always matches the published npm version. A hardcoded constant
```

### 14. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@cachly-dev/mcp-server@0.10.117/dist/src/index.js>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5: import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
L6: import { execFile } from 'node:child_process';
L7: // True only when this file is the entry point (not imported by tests or other modules).
...
L40: * Configuration (env vars):
L41: *   CACHLY_API_URL      – default https://api.cachly.dev
L42: *   CACHLY_JWT          – your JWT (Keycloak access token)
...
L53: // Reassigned (if at all) before any network call is made.
L54: let API_URL = process.env.CACHLY_API_URL ?? 'https://api.cachly.dev';
L55: let JWT = process.env.CACHLY_JWT ?? '';
L56: const _EMBED_MODEL = process.env.CACHLY_EMBED_MODEL ?? '';
L57: // Resolve the package version at runtime from package.json so the telemetry
L58: // `version` field always matches the published npm version. A hardcoded constant
```

### 15. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/cls-hook.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@cachly-dev/mcp-server@0.10.117/dist/src/cls-hook.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L69: "files:(process.env.CLS_FILES||'').split(',').filter(Boolean)}};" +
L70: "require('child_process').execFileSync('npx',['@cachly-dev/mcp-server@latest','cls-ingest',JSON.stringify(p)]," +
L71: "{stdio:'ignore',timeout:8000});" +
```

### 16. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 17. Low: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

### 18. 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.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 2
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 8
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 2

### Published dependency entries
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.10.0 (Dependency)
- ioredis ^5.10.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @cachly-dev/mcp-server
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.10.117
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-07-04T10:05:31.505Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-04T10:08:14.331Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-21T22:16:53.572Z
- **Known versions:** 60
- **Latest version:** 0.10.214
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Your AI forgets everything between sessions. cachly fixes that permanently. Persistent memory + causal root-cause analysis for Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot & Windsurf. Learns from every bug fix, git commit, and CI run automatically. Arrives pre-briefed. P
- **Maintainers:** heinrichneb
- **Keywords:** mcp, mcp-server, model-context-protocol, ai-memory, persistent-memory, claude-code-memory, claude, claude-code, cursor, cursor-memory, copilot, github-copilot
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 99
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,130,234 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@cachly-dev/mcp-server/v/0.10.117>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/cachly-dev/cachly-mcp>)
- [Homepage](<https://cachly.dev/docs/mcp>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/cachly-dev/cachly-mcp/issues>)
