---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@crbonfree/cli/v/0.2.3"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@crbonfree/cli/v/0.2.3.md"
package: "@crbonfree/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@crbonfree/cli@0.2.3 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.2.3"
---

# @crbonfree/cli@0.2.3 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 20 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:** 0.2.3
- **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 manifest has no install lifecycle hook, and the reviewed credential flow uses the configured server, defaulting to the package's own Crbon API. The network and persistence behavior is consistent with the CLI's stated sign-in, usage-sync, and onboarding functions.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-30T21:33:45.888Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-30T21:34:31.149Z
- **Download time:** 513 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2718 ms
- **AI review time:** 42029 ms
- **Total time:** 45261 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 attack was identified. The CLI sends credentials and usage data to its configured Crbon backend as part of user-invoked setup and sync.

- **Trigger:** A user runs a CLI command such as install or sync; recurring sync can be configured during onboarding.

- **Impact:** Expected service authentication and agent usage syncing; no evidence of credential forwarding to an unrelated host.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-30T21:34:31.149Z

### AI review details

- **Review stage:** source\_first\_review

- **Mechanism:** The CLI reads credentials from environment variables or saved configuration and uses the configured server URL for service requests. The default backend is api.crbonfree.com.

- **Rationale:** The manifest has no install lifecycle hook, and the reviewed credential flow uses the configured server, defaulting to the package's own Crbon API. The network and persistence behavior is consistent with the CLI's stated sign-in, usage-sync, and onboarding functions.

- **Network endpoints:** api.crbonfree.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest lists build and development scripts, with no install, preinstall, or postinstall lifecycle script., The API key and server URL come from the user's environment or saved configuration; the default backend is api.crbonfree.com., The CLI sends the key to the configured server's memory configuration endpoint and rejects redirects., The install command is described as onboarding with sign-in, scheduler setup, and a first sync; the sync command describes its upload as local coding-agent token usage.

- **Evidence against:** The package exposes CLI commands and hook installers that can access agent session data when used., The install command can set up recurring sync after sign-in, and memory setup is offered during onboarding.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @crbonfree/cli@0.2.3.

- Review the evidence and your use of @crbonfree/cli@0.2.3 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. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/updateBin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@crbonfree/cli@0.2.3/dist/updateBin.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L455: // src/openBrowser.ts
L456: import { execFile } from "child_process";
L457: import { readFileSync as readFileSync6 } from "fs";
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/mechanisms/compressCliBin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@crbonfree/cli@0.2.3/dist/mechanisms/compressCliBin.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L496: const result = spawnSync(command, {
L497: shell: true,
L498: encoding: "utf-8",
```

### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/updateBin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@crbonfree/cli@0.2.3/dist/updateBin.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L686: const modPath = "./openclawPlugin.js";
L687: const mod = await import(modPath);
L688: if (typeof mod.installOpenClawPlugin === "function") {
```

### 5. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/mechanisms/readCacheCliBin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@crbonfree/cli@0.2.3/dist/mechanisms/readCacheCliBin.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: // src/mechanisms/readCacheCli.ts
L4: import { spawnSync } from "child_process";
L5: 
...
L47: if (bytesRead === 0) break;
L48: const parts = decoder.write(buffer.subarray(0, bytesRead)).split("\n");
L49: const tail = parts.pop() ?? "";
...
L69: try {
L70: yield JSON.parse(line);
L71: } catch {
...
L80: function configDir() {
L81: return process.env.CRBON_HOME ?? join3(homedir2(), ".crbon");
L82: }
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

### 8. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@crbonfree/cli@0.2.3/dist/cli.js>)

Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L230: try {
L231: payload = JSON.parse(trimmed);
L232: } catch {
...
L494: if (bytesRead === 0) break;
L495: const parts = decoder.write(buffer.subarray(0, bytesRead)).split("\n");
L496: const tail = parts.pop() ?? "";
...
L543: function realFolder(input, env = {}) {
L544: const home = env.home ?? homedir();
L545: const platform = env.platform ?? process.platform;
L546: const expanded = input === "~" ? home : input.startsWith("~/") ? join2(home, input.slice(2)) : input;
...
L748: function configDir() {
L749: return process.env.CRBON_HOME ?? join3(homedir2(), ".crbon");
```

### 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:** dist/proxyServerBin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@crbonfree/cli@0.2.3/dist/proxyServerBin.js>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L20: });
L21: import { spawn } from "child_process";
L22: function buildGatewayCommand(port) {
...
L25: args: ["-y", GATEWAY_PACKAGE, `--port=${port}`],
L26: env: { ...process.env, PORT: String(port) }
L27: };
...
L33: try {
L34: await doFetch(url, { signal: AbortSignal.timeout(2e3) });
L35: return true;
```

### 11. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@crbonfree/cli@0.2.3/dist/cli.js>)

Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration.
dist/cli.js:
writeFileSync
function writeFileAtomic(path, content, mode = 384) {
writeFileSync(tmp, content, { encoding: "utf-8", mode });
writeFileAtomic(path, `${JSON.stringify(data, null, 2)}
writeFileAtomic(configPath(), JSON.stringify(cfg, null, 2), 384);
import { existsSync as existsSync14, readFileSync as readFileSync14, rmSync as rmSync3, writeFileSync as writeFileSync5 } from "fs";
writeFileSync5(path, `${JSON.stringify(updated, null, 2)}
const target = provider === "claude" ? [base([".claude", "settings.json"]), removeFromSettings] : provider === "gemini" ? [base([".gemini", "settings.json"]), removeFromSettings] :...
```

### 12. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@crbonfree/cli@0.2.3/dist/cli.js>)

Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L9203: init_config();
L9204: import { spawnSync as spawnSync3 } from "child_process";
L9205: import { homedir as homedir9 } from "os";
...
L9209: function promptHidden(question) {
L9210: return new Promise((resolve6) => {
L9211: const rl = createInterface4({
L9212: input: process.stdin,
L9213: output: process.stderr,
L9214: terminal: true
L9215: });
L9216: process.stderr.write(question);
L9217: rl._writeToOutput = () => {
```

### 13. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/proxyServerBin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@crbonfree/cli@0.2.3/dist/proxyServerBin.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L20: });
L21: import { spawn } from "child_process";
L22: function buildGatewayCommand(port) {
...
L25: args: ["-y", GATEWAY_PACKAGE, `--port=${port}`],
L26: env: { ...process.env, PORT: String(port) }
L27: };
...
L33: try {
L34: await doFetch(url, { signal: AbortSignal.timeout(2e3) });
L35: return true;
...
L58: }
L59: proc.stdout?.on("data", (c) => process.stderr.write(`[gateway] ${c}`));
L60: proc.stderr?.on("data", (c) => process.stderr.write(`[gateway] ${c}`));
```

### 14. High: External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@crbonfree/cli@0.2.3/dist/cli.js>)

Runtime or CLI source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Runtime or CLI code links a write operation to an explicit external AI-agent control path:
const modpath = "./openclawplugin.js";
    const mod = await import(modpath);
    if (typeof mod.uninstallopenclawplugin === "function") {
      const { removedfiles, removedconfig } = mod.uninstallopenclawplugin({
        openclawdir: homedir ? join15(homedir, ".openclaw") : void 0
      });
      const removed = [];
      if (removedfiles) removed.push("plugin files");
      if (removedconfig) removed.push("config patch");
      console.error(
        removed.length > 0 ? `removed crbon openclaw ${removed.join(" and ")}.` : "no crbon openclaw plugin found to remove."
      );
    }
  } catch (exc) {
    console.error(`warning: openclaw plugin uninstall unavailable (${exc}).`);
  }
}
async function
```

### 15. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@crbonfree/cli@0.2.3/dist/cli.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches command-output exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable command-output exfiltration chain: manifest.bin -> dist/cli.js
L9203: init_config();
L9204: import { spawnSync as spawnSync3 } from "child_process";
L9205: import { homedir as homedir9 } from "os";
...
L9209: function promptHidden(question) {
L9210: return new Promise((resolve6) => {
L9211: const rl = createInterface4({
L9212: input: process.stdin,
L9213: output: process.stderr,
L9214: terminal: true
L9215: });
L9216: process.stderr.write(question);
L9217: rl._writeToOutput = () => {
```

### 16. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@crbonfree/cli@0.2.3/dist/cli.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches persistence behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable persistence chain: manifest.bin -> dist/cli.js
L230: try {
L231: payload = JSON.parse(trimmed);
L232: } catch {
...
L494: if (bytesRead === 0) break;
L495: const parts = decoder.write(buffer.subarray(0, bytesRead)).split("\n");
L496: const tail = parts.pop() ?? "";
...
L543: function realFolder(input, env = {}) {
L544: const home = env.home ?? homedir();
L545: const platform = env.platform ?? process.platform;
L546: const expanded = input === "~" ? home : input.startsWith("~/") ? join2(home, input.slice(2)) : input;
...
L748: function configDir() {
L749: return process.env.CRBON_HOME ?? join3(homedir2(), ".crbon");
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 19. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 95.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

### 20. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/hooks/installerBin.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@crbonfree/cli@0.2.3/dist/hooks/installerBin.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 2
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 9
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 10
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 9

### Published dependency entries
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.0.0 (Dependency)
- @tokenlens/helpers ^1.3.1 (Dependency)
- @tokenlens/models ^1.3.0 (Dependency)
- better-sqlite3 ^12.11.1 (Dependency)
- commander ^12.0.0 (Dependency)
- diff ^7.0.0 (Dependency)
- gpt-tokenizer ^3.4.0 (Dependency)
- tokenlens ^1.3.1 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.0.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @crbonfree/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.2.3
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-30T21:30:32.472Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-28T21:18:46.893Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-02T07:10:36.907Z
- **Known versions:** 14
- **Latest version:** 0.2.4
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** See the carbon footprint of your AI coding agents, and give them a shared memory across every tool.
- **Maintainers:** crbonlabs
- **Keywords:** crbon, carbon, co2e, ai, coding-agent, memory, mcp, token-usage, telemetry, cli
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 21
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 908,738 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@crbonfree/cli/v/0.2.3>)
- [Homepage](<https://crbonfree.com/>)