---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/burnboard-cli/v/0.3.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/burnboard-cli/v/0.3.1.md"
package: "burnboard-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "burnboard-cli@0.3.1 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.3.1"
---

# burnboard-cli@0.3.1 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:** 0.3.1
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Explicit setup fetches an unbundled tracker from the configured BurnBoard server, executes it, and makes it recurring. It also changes Claude Code telemetry configuration.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-23T11:02:05.394Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-23T11:02:47.893Z
- **Download time:** 513 ms
- **Static scan time:** 54 ms
- **AI review time:** 41931 ms
- **Total time:** 42499 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Explicit setup fetches an unbundled tracker from the configured BurnBoard server, executes it, and makes it recurring. It also changes Claude Code telemetry configuration.

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

- **Impact:** The remotely supplied tracker can access and upload local AI-tool history on a persistent schedule.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, cli.mjs, install/burnboard-setup.sh, install/burnboard-setup.ps1

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-23T11:02:47.893Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** remote tracker download with recurring execution and AI-tool config mutation

- **Rationale:** No malicious install-time behavior is present, but explicit setup creates persistence for opaque remotely fetched code and mutates a foreign AI-tool configuration. This warrants warning rather than block.

- **Files touched:** ~/.burnboard/config.json, ~/.burnboard/agent.mjs, ~/.claude/settings.json

- **Network endpoints:** https://burnboard-public.vercel.app/api/enroll, https://burnboard-public.vercel.app/burnboard-agent.mjs

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** Explicit setup downloads a remote JavaScript tracker, then persistence executes it every five minutes., Setup deletes Claude Code telemetry-related environment settings in ~/.claude/settings.json., The installer invokes the opaque tracker for “uploading local history” and schedules automatic package updates.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no preinstall, install, or postinstall lifecycle hook., The installer is reached only through explicit CLI connect/setup commands.

## 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@0.3.1/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@0.3.1/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@0.3.1/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@0.3.1/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 = 5757
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:** 91.0%
- **Path:** install/burnboard-setup.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/burnboard-cli@0.3.1/install/burnboard-setup.sh>)

Explicit setup downloads a remote JavaScript tracker, then persistence executes it every five minutes.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
printf '[2/5] Downloading tracker...\n'; curl -fsS "$SERVER_URL/burnboard-agent.mjs" -o "$INSTALL_DIR/agent.mjs"
```

## 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:** 0.3.1
- **Version published:** 2026-08-23T11:00:59.411Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-23T07:58:10.527Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-23T13:21:47.355Z
- **Known versions:** 7
- **Latest version:** 0.3.4
- **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:** 20,779 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/burnboard-cli/v/0.3.1>)