---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/burnboard-cli/v/0.3.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/burnboard-cli/v/0.3.0.md"
package: "burnboard-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "burnboard-cli@0.3.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.3.0"
---

# burnboard-cli@0.3.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 12 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Remote Code Execution
- **Selected version:** 0.3.0
- **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: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

This is not an automatic install-time attack, but the explicit command exposes a real unpinned remote-code and persistence capability controlled by a configurable endpoint. The host-data upload compounds that risk.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 93.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-19T23:30:05.890Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-19T23:39:03.082Z
- **Download time:** 757 ms
- **Static scan time:** 39 ms
- **AI review time:** 536396 ms
- **Total time:** 537192 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 or connect commands can retrieve executable JavaScript from a configurable server and persist recurring execution. The installer also changes Claude settings and sends host identity details during connection.

- **Trigger:** User runs burnboard setup or burnboard connect.

- **Impact:** A selected server can supply code that runs repeatedly under the user account; hostname and platform are disclosed to that server.

- **Evidence paths:** cli.mjs, install/burnboard-setup.sh

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-19T23:39:03.082Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Remote agent download, scheduled execution, and host metadata upload.

- **Rationale:** This is not an automatic install-time attack, but the explicit command exposes a real unpinned remote-code and persistence capability controlled by a configurable endpoint. The host-data upload compounds that risk.

- **Files touched:** $HOME/.burnboard/agent.mjs, $HOME/.burnboard/config.json, $HOME/.claude/settings.json, user crontab

- **Network endpoints:** https://burnboard-public.vercel.app

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 93.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** The CLI accepts a caller-controlled server URL and invokes a setup script., Setup downloads an unpinned agent script from that server, then schedules it to run every five minutes., The connect command sends the machine hostname and platform to the selected server., The installer removes Claude telemetry environment settings.

- **Evidence against:** The manifest contains only a prepack script and no install lifecycle hook., The risky setup path is reached through explicit CLI commands, not package import.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to burnboard-cli@0.3.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of burnboard-cli@0.3.0 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. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 4. High: Host Fingerprint Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/burnboard-cli@0.3.0/cli.mjs>)

Source collects local host identity data and sends it to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: import path from "node:path";
L5: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L6: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
...
L9: const installRoot = path.join(packageRoot, "install");
L10: const burnboardRoot = path.join(os.homedir(), ".burnboard");
L11: const cliVersion = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(packageRoot, "package.json"), "utf8")).version;
L12: const installedVersionPath = path.join(burnboardRoot, "cli-version");
...
L24: if (result.error) throw result.error;
L25: process.exitCode = result.status ?? 1;
L26: return result.status ?? 1;
...
L30: const name = nameOverride || option("--name", args.find((value) => !value.startsWith("-")));
L31: const server = option("--server", "https://burnboard-public.vercel.app");
```

### 5. High: Entrypoint Foreign Package Code Overwrite
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/burnboard-cli@0.3.0/cli.mjs>)

Manifest-reachable source overwrites another installed package with package-defined remote behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source resolves another installed package, overwrites its runtime code, and injects package-defined remote behavior.
cli.mjs:
const server = option("--server", "https://burnboard-public.vercel.app");
fs.writeFileSync(installedVersionPath, `${cliVersion}\n`);
fs.writeFileSync(lastUpdateCheckPath, `${new Date().toISOString()}\n`);
const server = option("--server", "https://burnboard-public.vercel.app");
fs.writeFileSync(path.join(burnboardRoot, "config.json"), `${JSON.stringify({ serverUrl:server, token:body.token, profileUrl:body.profileUrl }, null, 2)}\n`);
fs.writeFileSync(lastUpdateCheckPath, `${new Date().toISOString()}\n`);
```

### 6. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/burnboard-cli@0.3.0/cli.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: import path from "node:path";
L5: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L6: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
...
L9: const installRoot = path.join(packageRoot, "install");
L10: const burnboardRoot = path.join(os.homedir(), ".burnboard");
L11: const cliVersion = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(packageRoot, "package.json"), "utf8")).version;
L12: const installedVersionPath = path.join(burnboardRoot, "cli-version");
...
L24: if (result.error) throw result.error;
L25: process.exitCode = result.status ?? 1;
L26: return result.status ?? 1;
...
L30: const name = nameOverride || option("--name", args.find((value) => !value.startsWith("-")));
L31: const server = option("--server", "https://burnboard-public.vercel.app");
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 9. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** install/burnboard-setup.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/burnboard-cli@0.3.0/install/burnboard-setup.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = install/burnboard-setup.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 3359
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 10. 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.

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 12. Medium: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/burnboard-cli@0.3.0/cli.mjs>)

The CLI accepts a caller-controlled server URL and invokes a setup script.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
function setup(nameOverride) {
  const name = nameOverride || option("--name", args.find((value) => !value.startsWith("-")));
  const server = option("--server", "https://burnboard-public.vercel.app");
  if (!name || name.startsWith("--")) throw new Error('A name is required. Example: npx burnboard-cli setup --name "Harsh Sawant"');
  let status;
  if (process.platform === "win32") {
    status = run("powershell.exe", ["-NoLogo", "-NoProfile", "-ExecutionPolicy", "Bypass", "-File", path.join(installRoot, "burnboard-setup.ps1"), "-Name", name, "-ServerUrl", server]);
  } else {
    status = run
```

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

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** burnboard-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.3.0
- **Version published:** 2026-08-23T09:57:05.508Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-23T07:58:10.527Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-19T23:39:03.082Z
- **Known versions:** 17
- **Latest version:** 0.4.6
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Connect local AI coding token usage to BurnBoard
- **Maintainers:** harshsawant2505
- **Keywords:** burnboard, codex, claude-code, cursor, antigravity
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 4
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 18,381 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/burnboard-cli/v/0.3.0>)