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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@echomem/mcp/v/1.4.38"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@echomem/mcp/v/1.4.38.md"
package: "@echomem/mcp"
report_status: "published"
title: "@echomem/mcp@1.4.38 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.4.38"
---

# @echomem/mcp@1.4.38 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as AI-agent capability risk** — Allowed by default with warning: agent-facing configuration or capability changes need review before use.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only AI-agent capability risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** AI-agent capability abuse
- **Selected version:** 1.4.38
- **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: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

This is a dangerous, user-invoked AI-agent control and self-update capability, not confirmed malware. The package lacks install-time execution, so it does not meet the blocking threshold.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 93.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-09T04:15:02.841Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-09T04:16:02.656Z
- **Download time:** 1010 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3890 ms
- **AI review time:** 54914 ms
- **Total time:** 59815 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:** Explicit setup/init mutates global Codex and Claude configuration, guidance, skills, and optional completion hooks. It also supports background installation of newer EchoMem runtime versions after the MCP server starts.

- **Trigger:** User runs echomem-mcp init, setup, or update; runtime update check runs while the MCP server is active.

- **Impact:** Can steer agent behavior toward EchoMem, trigger package commands at agent lifecycle events, and replace the runtime with a later registry version.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/setup.js, dist/hud/hooks.js, dist/index.js, dist/headless-runtime.js, dist/update-check.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-09T04:16:02.656Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Global AI-agent configuration injection and self-updating runtime

- **Rationale:** This is a dangerous, user-invoked AI-agent control and self-update capability, not confirmed malware. The package lacks install-time execution, so it does not meet the blocking threshold.

- **Files touched:** ~/.codex/config.toml, ~/.codex/AGENTS.md, ~/.codex/hooks.json, ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, ~/.claude/settings.json, ~/.config/echomem/mcp-runtime

- **Network endpoints:** https://echo-mem-chrome.vercel.app, https://registry.npmjs.org/%40echomem%2Fmcp/latest

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 93.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** dist/setup.js: init invokes setup for all detected agents and enables save hooks by default., dist/setup.js writes EchoMem directives into ~/.codex/AGENTS.md and ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, including preference over other memory providers and automatic saving., dist/hud/hooks.js installs Codex/Claude Stop hooks that execute this package's CLI., dist/index.js auto-downloads newer package versions after a background registry update check., dist/headless-runtime.js runs npm install of the selected newer version into a durable user runtime.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no preinstall, install, or postinstall lifecycle hook., Agent configuration and hooks are reached only through explicit init/setup/update commands., No source evidence of credential harvesting, arbitrary remote code execution, or stealth exfiltration., Default network API is package-aligned: echo-mem-chrome.vercel.app.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @echomem/mcp@1.4.38.

- Review the evidence and your use of @echomem/mcp@1.4.38 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/forensics.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@echomem/mcp@1.4.38/dist/forensics.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L19: import path from "node:path";
L20: import { execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
L21: import { calculateContextMetrics } from "./context-metrics/calculate.js";
```

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

Package source references shell execution.

### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/headless-runtime.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@echomem/mcp@1.4.38/dist/headless-runtime.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L65: 'if (!fs.existsSync(entry)) throw new Error("EchoMem MCP runtime is missing; run `npx -y @echomem/mcp@latest update --all`.");',
L66: "await import(pathToFileURL(entry).href);",
L67: "",
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

### 7. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/hud/autostart.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@echomem/mcp@1.4.38/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;
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 9. 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@1.4.38/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(/\/$/, "");
L16: const PRICING_URL = (process.env.ECHO_PRICING_URL || "https://echoknows.com/account").replace(/\/$/, "");
```

### 10. High: 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@1.4.38/dist/hud/hooks.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:
import fs from "node:fs";
import os from "node:os";
import path from "node:path";
import { fileurltopath } from "node:url";
export function installhooks(mode) {
    const written = [];
    if (mode === "codex" || mode === "both" || mode === "auto") {
        written.push(installcodexhooks());
    }
    if (mode === "claude-code" || mode === "both" || mode === "auto") {
        written.push(installclaudecodesnippet());
    }
    return written;
}
export function installsavecheckpointhooks(mode) {
    const written = [];
    if (mode === "codex" || mode === "both" || mode === "auto") {
        written.push(installcodexsavecheckpointhook());
    }
    if (mode === "claude-code" || mode === "both" || mod
```

### 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. Medium: Ships Wasm Module
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/city/vendor/rive.wasm
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@echomem/mcp@1.4.38/dist/city/vendor/rive.wasm>)

Package ships WebAssembly modules.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dist/city/vendor/rive.wasm
kind = wasm_module
sizeBytes = 1740592
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 14. 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.

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 16. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/setup.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@echomem/mcp@1.4.38/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@1.4.36
matchedIdentity = npm:QGVjaG9tZW0vbWNw:1.4.36
similarity = 0.957
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:** 1.4.38
- **Version published:** 2026-08-07T23:02:20.455Z
- **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: cloud-first memory tools and the Agent Doctor workspace forensics report (cost ledger + 3D repo city)
- **Maintainers:** echomem
- **Artifact files:** 110
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 25,275,655 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@echomem/mcp/v/1.4.38>)