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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@mnemonik/cli/v/7.139.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@mnemonik/cli/v/7.139.0.md"
package: "@mnemonik/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@mnemonik/cli@7.139.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "7.139.0"
---

# @mnemonik/cli@7.139.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 14 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:** 7.139.0
- **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 scanner hints resolve to bundled parser and project-scanning code, not a confirmed attack chain. The manifest has no lifecycle scripts, and the reviewed updater validates signed release metadata before replacing the runtime.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 96.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-14T23:06:56.057Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-14T23:08:59.780Z
- **Download time:** 1765 ms
- **Static scan time:** 22743 ms
- **AI review time:** 99214 ms
- **Total time:** 123723 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:** Static inspection found no confirmed attack surface. The package has no install lifecycle hook, and the reviewed update path verifies signed release data before installing it.

- **Trigger:** The reviewed runtime behavior is reached through CLI or API use; no automatic install trigger is declared.

- **Impact:** No confirmed unauthorized file change, credential transfer, or remote code execution was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-14T23:08:59.780Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** No malicious mechanism was established. The flagged \`.claude\` matches relate to project-scanner ignore patterns, and the parser evaluation builds functions from embedded parser data.

- **Rationale:** The scanner hints resolve to bundled parser and project-scanning code, not a confirmed attack chain. The manifest has no lifecycle scripts, and the reviewed updater validates signed release metadata before replacing the runtime.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 96.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** package.json exposes CLI and import entrypoints and declares an empty scripts object, with no install lifecycle hook., The \`.claude\` matches are scanner comments about scoped project-directory handling; the scanner configuration uses ignore patterns, not agent configuration writes., The updater verifies a signed release manifest and matching package version and integrity before installing an update; the router calls it through the CLI update flow., The \`eval\` matches build parser functions from embedded WebAssembly parser data; the inspected source does not show remote responses reaching that sink., The reviewed scanner, authorization, and install-session files expose project-scanning and user-facing CLI functions; no concrete unauthorized credential transfer or account action was established.

- **Evidence against:** Bundled parser code contains \`eval\`-generated functions, and diagnostic helpers use child-process execution; inspected contexts are parser support and CLI tooling.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @mnemonik/cli@7.139.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @mnemonik/cli@7.139.0 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: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/diagnostics.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@mnemonik/cli@7.139.0/dist/diagnostics.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L898: import { createHash, createPublicKey, randomUUID, timingSafeEqual, verify as verifySignature } from "node:crypto";
L899: import { execFile, execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
L900: function windowsCommand(file) {
```

### 2. High: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/diagnostics.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@mnemonik/cli@7.139.0/dist/diagnostics.js>)

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5213: var func = `(${args}) => { ${body} };`;
L5214: ASM_CONSTS[start] = eval(func);
L5215: }
```

### 3. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/diagnostics.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@mnemonik/cli@7.139.0/dist/diagnostics.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import { createRequire as __createRequire } from "node:module"; const require = __createRequire(import.meta.url);
L2: var __create = Object.create;
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/install/journey.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@mnemonik/cli@7.139.0/dist/install/journey.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L7028: // packages/shared/dist/apiOrigin.js
L7029: function apiOrigin(env = process.env) {
L7030: return new URL(env.MNEMONIK_API_RESOURCE || "https://api.mnemonik.dev").origin;
L7031: }
...
L7036: import { createHash, randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
L7037: import { execFile as nodeExecFile } from "node:child_process";
L7038: import fs2 from "node:fs";
```

### 8. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/install/journey.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@mnemonik/cli@7.139.0/dist/install/journey.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L383: // WTF!
L384: // https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore
L385: // changes in [2.22.1](https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore/2.22.1)
...
L547: var parentOf = (path) => {
L548: if (path.charCodeAt(0) === SLASH_CODE || path.indexOf(DOUBLE_SLASH) >= 0) {
L549: const slices = path.split(SLASH).filter(Boolean);
...
L694: const rules = this._literalRules || (this._literalRules = this._rules.filter(
L695: ({ body: body2 }) => body2[body2.length - (body2[body2.length - 1] === SLASH ? 2 : 1)] === "*"
L696: ));
...
L876: // Detect `process` so that it can run in browsers.
L877: typeof process !== "undefined" && process.platform === "win32"
L878: ) {
```

### 9. Critical: Remote Response Code Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 98.0%
- **Path:** dist/runtime/selfUpdate.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@mnemonik/cli@7.139.0/dist/runtime/selfUpdate.js>)

Source passes code obtained from a remote response into a dynamic execution sink.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L383: // WTF!
L384: // https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore
L385: // changes in [2.22.1](https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore/2.22.1)
...
L547: var parentOf = (path) => {
L548: if (path.charCodeAt(0) === SLASH_CODE || path.indexOf(DOUBLE_SLASH) >= 0) {
L549: const slices = path.split(SLASH).filter(Boolean);
...
L694: const rules = this._literalRules || (this._literalRules = this._rules.filter(
L695: ({ body: body2 }) => body2[body2.length - (body2[body2.length - 1] === SLASH ? 2 : 1)] === "*"
L696: ));
...
L876: // Detect `process` so that it can run in browsers.
L877: typeof process !== "undefined" && process.platform === "win32"
L878: ) {
```

### 10. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/auth/credentials.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@mnemonik/cli@7.139.0/dist/auth/credentials.js>)

Source spawns a local helper that also contains network and dynamic execution context; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Cross-file remote execution chain: dist/auth/credentials.js spawns dist/auth/index.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L383: // WTF!
L384: // https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore
L385: // changes in [2.22.1](https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore/2.22.1)
...
L547: var parentOf = (path) => {
L548: if (path.charCodeAt(0) === SLASH_CODE || path.indexOf(DOUBLE_SLASH) >= 0) {
L549: const slices = path.split(SLASH).filter(Boolean);
...
L694: const rules = this._literalRules || (this._literalRules = this._rules.filter(
L695: ({ body: body2 }) => body2[body2.length - (body2[body2.length - 1] === SLASH ? 2 : 1)] === "*"
L696: ));
...
L876: // Detect `process` so that it can run in browsers.
L877: typeof process !== "undefined" && process.platform === "win32"
L878: ) {
```

### 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: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

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

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

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

- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 1
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @mnemonik/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 7.139.0
- **License:** SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE
- **Version published:** 2026-10-14T22:50:41.576Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-09T08:37:24.300Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-02T23:28:26.592Z
- **Known versions:** 169
- **Latest version:** 7.174.5
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Mnemonik installer and local project helper
- **Maintainers:** daemonhunt
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=24
- **Artifact files:** 220
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 9,893,160 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@mnemonik/cli/v/7.139.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/JayDeeCo-Limited/mnemonik-cli>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/JayDeeCo-Limited/mnemonik-cli#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/JayDeeCo-Limited/mnemonik-cli/issues>)
