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@kryptosai/mcp-observatory@1.50.0
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AI Security Review
scanned 1d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiSource inspection found a guarded CI setup hook and affirmative opt-in for telemetry identity collection and event delivery. The scanner’s similarity and lifecycle hints did not establish malicious behavior in the reviewed source.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; source matched previously finalized malicious package; routed for review; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source
Trigger
Postinstall runs during installation; workflow creation requires the project setting or environment opt-in. Telemetry delivery requires affirmative telemetry opt-in.
Impact
No confirmed unauthorized project mutation, credential disclosure, or other attack impact was established from the inspected behavior.
Mechanism
The hook may create a new MCP Observatory workflow in an MCP project. Opted-in telemetry sends events to the configured telemetry endpoint.
AI rationale
Source inspection found a guarded CI setup hook and affirmative opt-in for telemetry identity collection and event delivery. The scanner’s similarity and lifecycle hints did not establish malicious behavior in the reviewed source.
Evidence
scripts/postinstall.mjsdist/src/telemetry.jsdist/src/handshake.js
Network endpoints1
mcp-observatory-telemetry.kryptosai.workers.dev
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 91.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The postinstall hook skips self-installs, CI, disabled runs, and projects that do not appear to use MCP; it creates a workflow only when an environment setting or project configuration explicitly enables setup.
- Telemetry does not request policy or inspect identity before affirmative opt-in. Events are sent by POST to the configured telemetry endpoint after initialization enables telemetry.
- MCP configuration protection is exposed as an explicit function that reads a selected configuration file; the inspected discovery helper only identifies candidate files.
- Inspected the flagged scanner, runtime, adapter, authentication, usage, and support modules, along with the prepared MCP SDK, CI metadata, and CLI dependencies; the reviewed behavior supports the package’s MCP security and CLI functions.
- The inspected dependency code delegates MCP request streams and checks task states, validates OAuth URL and resource inputs and formats OAuth errors, and provides CLI argument validation, executable spawning, and error types.
- The CLI helper filters hidden commands from help, and option flags are derived from the supplied flag string.
Evidence against
Source & flagged code
10 flagged · loading sourcepackage.jsonView file
•scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.mjs
High
Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.
package.jsonView on unpkg•scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.mjs
Medium
Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.
package.jsonView on unpkgdist/src/ci-issue.jsView file
1import { execFile } from "node:child_process";
L2: import { mkdtemp, rm, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
High
Child Process
Package source references child process execution.
dist/src/ci-issue.jsView on unpkg · L1Findings
1 Critical8 High5 Medium4 Low
CriticalPrevious Version Dangerous Deltadist/src/checks/source-audit.js
HighInstall Time Lifecycle Scriptspackage.json
HighChild Processdist/src/ci-issue.js
HighShell
HighRuntime Package Installdist/src/commands/test.js
HighSemantic Analysis Limiteddist/src/checks/skill-scan.js#virtual:normalized:round1
HighKnown Malware Source Similaritydist/src/commands/helpers.js
HighKnown Malware Source Similaritydist/src/risk-graph.js
HighKnown Malware Source Similaritydist/src/utils/failure-diagnosis.js
MediumAmbiguous Install Lifecycle Scriptpackage.json
MediumDynamic Requiredist/src/commands/demo.js
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to @kryptosai/mcp-observatory@1.50.0.
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