@mnemonik/cli@7.139.4
Mnemonik installer and local project helper
AI Security Review
scanned 20d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThis is a conditional credential-forwarding risk: an existing service bearer can be sent to an unrestricted configured origin. The default is package-aligned and the transfer is in the user-invoked installation flow, so the evidence supports a warning rather than a publish block.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.
Trigger
A user runs the CLI installation flow while a CLI bearer is available and MNEMONIK_API_RESOURCE selects a different origin.
Impact
The configured recipient may receive an existing service credential. The inspected source does not establish disclosure to an unrelated host when the default origin is used.
Mechanism
The flow attaches the bearer to install-session requests built with apiOrigin(); the source shows no recipient host allowlist.
AI rationale
This is a conditional credential-forwarding risk: an existing service bearer can be sent to an unrestricted configured origin. The default is package-aligned and the transfer is in the user-invoked installation flow, so the evidence supports a warning rather than a publish block.
Evidence
dist/install/journey.jsdist/auth/index.jsdist/router.js
Network endpoints1
api.mnemonik.dev
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Suspicious at 84.0% confidence as Dangerous Capability with medium false-positive risk.
Evidence for warning
- package.json has no lifecycle scripts and launches the CLI through dist/bin.js.
- After installation, journey.js retrieves a managed CLI bearer and sends it in install-session requests to apiOrigin().
- apiOrigin() accepts the MNEMONIK_API_RESOURCE origin without a host allowlist; authentication also uses that environment override, defaulting to api.mnemonik.dev.
- The router obtains the bearer from saved CLI credentials and passes it to the installation flow.
- The installation flow has explicit host and component choices and prompts interactively to “Install and upload.”
- The eight indicated .claude locations are scanner ignore-pattern comments, not agent configuration writes.
Evidence against
- The bearer transfer occurs in the CLI installation flow, not an npm lifecycle hook; the default API origin is api.mnemonik.dev.
- The source shows no separate evidence of a transfer to an unrelated recipient when the default origin is used.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequire
Source & flagged code
7 flaggeddist/diagnostics.jsView file
898import { createHash, createPublicKey, randomUUID, timingSafeEqual, verify as verifySignature } from "node:crypto";
L899: import { execFile, execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
L900: function windowsCommand(file) {
High
Child Process
Package source references child process execution.
dist/diagnostics.jsView on unpkg · L8985213var func = `(${args}) => { ${body} };`;
L5214: ASM_CONSTS[start] = eval(func);
L5215: }
High
1import { createRequire as __createRequire } from "node:module"; const require = __createRequire(import.meta.url);
L2: var __create = Object.create;
Medium
Dynamic Require
Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.
dist/diagnostics.jsView on unpkg · L1Findings
1 Critical5 High4 Medium4 Low
CriticalRemote Response Code Executiondist/runtime/selfUpdate.js
HighChild Processdist/diagnostics.js
HighEvaldist/diagnostics.js
HighSame File Env Network Executiondist/install/journey.js
HighSandbox Evasion Gated Capabilitydist/install/journey.js
HighCross File Remote Execution Contextdist/auth/credentials.js
MediumDynamic Requiredist/diagnostics.js
MediumNetwork
MediumEnvironment Vars
MediumStructural Risk Force Deep Review
LowFilesystem
LowHigh Entropy Strings
LowUrl Strings
LowNo License
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to @mnemonik/cli@7.139.4.
See all versions of @mnemonik/cli for other recorded verdicts.
- Review the evidence and your use of @mnemonik/cli@7.139.4 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.
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