---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@echomem/mcp"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@echomem/mcp/report.md"
package: "@echomem/mcp"
report_status: "published"
title: "@echomem/mcp@1.4.71 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.4.71"
---

# @echomem/mcp@1.4.71 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 14 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Telemetry warning (can be blocked)
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Telemetry
- **Selected version:** 1.4.71
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **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: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

This is intentional runtime telemetry, but the package README does not disclose it, so it warrants a warning. The inspected events contain usage and installation identifiers rather than credentials, file contents, or other sensitive machine data.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 87.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-30T07:02:35.904Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-30T07:04:00.215Z
- **Download time:** 771 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2144 ms
- **AI review time:** 81394 ms
- **Total time:** 84311 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:** Undisclosed runtime product analytics sends CLI and onboarding usage data to PostHog.

- **Trigger:** A user runs CLI setup, connect, or login flows, or advances through onboarding.

- **Impact:** The vendor’s analytics service can associate product usage with an installation and, after sign-in, an Echo account. No credentials or file contents were observed in the analytics payloads inspected.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/product-analytics.js, dist/setup.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-30T07:04:00.215Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The package posts analytics events to https://us.i.posthog.com/i/v0/e/ with command, platform, version, installation identity, and some onboarding usage fields.

- **Rationale:** This is intentional runtime telemetry, but the package README does not disclose it, so it warrants a warning. The inspected events contain usage and installation identifiers rather than credentials, file contents, or other sensitive machine data.

- **Files touched:** ~/.echomem/installation-id, ~/.echomem/analytics-anon-id, ~/.echomem/analytics-user-id, ECHO\_CONFIG\_DIR/installation-id, ECHO\_CONFIG\_DIR/analytics-anon-id, ECHO\_CONFIG\_DIR/analytics-user-id

- **Network endpoints:** https://us.i.posthog.com/i/v0/e/

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 87.0%

- **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn

- **Intent class:** Unknown

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The package sends CLI and onboarding funnel analytics to PostHog when users run setup or login flows; the package README does not disclose this telemetry., Events include the command and may include configured host IDs and import session counts, in addition to platform and version data., The analytics code uses a random installation ID and, after sign-in, an Echo account ID; the inspected fields do not include credentials or file contents., Users can disable telemetry with ECHO\_TELEMETRY, ECHO\_DISABLE\_TELEMETRY, or DO\_NOT\_TRACK.

- **Evidence against:** No install lifecycle scripts are declared; analytics runs during CLI commands and onboarding flows., The setup API defaults to EchoMem’s API, and the bearer token is sent to that configured API endpoint., The telemetry code filters sensitive fields and normalizes errors before sending them.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @echomem/mcp@1.4.71.

- Review the evidence and your use of @echomem/mcp@1.4.71 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/durable-entry.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@echomem/mcp@1.4.71/dist/durable-entry.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L2: import fs from "node:fs";
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/setup.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@echomem/mcp@1.4.71/dist/setup.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L730: };
L731: const result = spawnSync(process.env.ComSpec || "cmd.exe", ["/d", "/s", "/c", `"${shellCommand}"`], spawnOptions);
L732: if (result.error)
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

### 6. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/hud/autostart.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@echomem/mcp@1.4.71/dist/hud/autostart.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: import path from "node:path";
L4: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L5: // Show-after-restart for the HUD via a macOS LaunchAgent. We ship a CLI, not an .app bundle, so this is
...
L9: export function autostartPlistPath() {
L10: return path.join(os.homedir(), "Library", "LaunchAgents", `${LABEL}.plist`);
L11: }
L12: export function autostartSupported() {
L13: return process.platform === "darwin";
L14: }
...
L20: }
L21: function launchctlUid() {
L22: return typeof process.getuid === "function" ? process.getuid() : 501;
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/hud/server.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@echomem/mcp@1.4.71/dist/hud/server.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import http from "node:http";
L2: import fs from "node:fs";
L3: import path from "node:path";
L4: import { execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
L5: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
...
L14: import { readSessionWorkingDirectory, } from "./session-launcher.js";
L15: const API_BASE = (process.env.ECHO_API_BASE_URL || "https://echo-mem-chrome.vercel.app").replace(/\/$/, "");
L16: const PRICING_URL = (process.env.ECHO_PRICING_URL || "https://echoknows.com/dashboard/account").replace(/\/$/, "");
```

### 9. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/setup.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@echomem/mcp@1.4.71/dist/setup.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/setup.js:
import readline from "node:readline";
return configuredProfileDirectory("CODEX_HOME", ".codex");
return configuredProfileDirectory("CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR", ".claude");
if (env.CLAUDE_DESKTOP_SUPPORT_DIR?.trim())
...claudeDesktopClients,
{ id: "codex", label: "Codex", kind: "command", detectDir: codexHome(), configPath: path.join(codexHome(), "config.toml"), note: "add to ~/.codex/config.toml under [mcp_servers.ech...
* can merge the user entry into ~/.claude.json without a CLI, a profile is enough to act on.
return fs.existsSync(home(".claude")) || fs.existsSync(home(".claude.json")) || claudeCodeCliAvailable();
```

### 10. High: Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/hud/hooks.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@echomem/mcp@1.4.71/dist/hud/hooks.js>)

Manifest-trigger-reachable source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-trigger-reachable source links an external AI-agent control path to a behavior-bearing write operation.
continue;
            atomicwritejsonobject(file, content);
            files.push(file);
        }
        catch {
                                                                                    
        }
    }
    return files;
}
function refreshlifecyclecommands(hooks, target, repairpinned) {
    if (!hooks || typeof hooks !== "object" || array.isarray(hooks))
        return false;
    let changed = false;
    for (const groups of object.values(hooks)) {
        if (!array.isarray(groups))
            continue;
        for (const group of groups.filter(isecholifecyclegroup)) {
            const entries = group.hooks;
            if (!array.isarray(entries))
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 13. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 14. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/setup.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@echomem/mcp@1.4.71/dist/setup.js>)

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 = @echomem/mcp@1.4.69
matchedIdentity = npm:QGVjaG9tZW0vbWNw:1.4.69
similarity = 0.897
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 3
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 4
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 3

### Published dependency entries
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.0.1 (Dependency)
- axios ^1.6.8 (Dependency)
- zod ^3.22.4 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @echomem/mcp
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.4.71
- **Version published:** 2026-10-29T19:54:00.769Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T00:08:45.565Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-30T07:04:00.215Z
- **Known versions:** 40
- **Latest version:** 1.4.71
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** EchoMem MCP bridge for cross-agent memory, local history import, and recall
- **Maintainers:** echomem
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 96
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 7,713,722 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@echomem/mcp>)