---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/burnboard-cli/v/0.3.3"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/burnboard-cli/v/0.3.3.md"
package: "burnboard-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "burnboard-cli@0.3.3 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.3.3"
---

# burnboard-cli@0.3.3 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:** 0.3.3
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Explicit setup fetches and executes a remote tracker, alters Claude settings, and persists recurring execution. The shipped source does not contain the tracker payload.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-23T11:59:41.515Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-23T12:00:21.848Z
- **Download time:** 505 ms
- **Static scan time:** 50 ms
- **AI review time:** 39778 ms
- **Total time:** 40333 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Explicit setup fetches and executes a remote tracker, alters Claude settings, and persists recurring execution. The shipped source does not contain the tracker payload.

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

- **Impact:** A server-controlled agent can execute repeatedly and observe local AI-tool history after user setup.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-23T12:00:21.848Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** remote agent download with persistent scheduled execution

- **Rationale:** The package has no install hook, but its explicit setup path fetches executable code from the network and persists it while modifying an AI-tool configuration. This warrants a warning rather than a block under the stated explicit-user-command policy.

- **Files touched:** ~/.burnboard/agent.mjs, ~/.burnboard/config.json, ~/.claude/settings.json, ~/.config/systemd/user/burnboard-sync.service, ~/.config/autostart/burnboard.desktop

- **Network endpoints:** https://burnboard.cc, $SERVER\_URL/burnboard-agent.mjs

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 93.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for:** Explicit setup downloads an unpinned remote agent into ~/.burnboard/agent.mjs., Setup removes Claude telemetry/exporter environment settings., Setup persists five-minute agent execution and daily self-updates via cron, systemd, or autostart., The downloaded agent is immediately run during setup.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no npm install lifecycle hook., Risky setup is reached only through explicit CLI connect/setup/update 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@0.3.3/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;
...
L34: if (fs.existsSync(existingConfigPath)) try { savedServer = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(existingConfigPath, "utf8").replace(/^\uFEFF/, "")).serverUrl; } catch {}
L35: const server = requestedServer || serverOverride || (mode
```

### 5. High: Entrypoint Foreign Package Code Overwrite
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/burnboard-cli@0.3.3/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 = requestedServer || serverOverride || (mode !== "connect" ? savedServer : undefined) || "https://burnboard.cc";
fs.writeFileSync(installedVersionPath, `${cliVersion}\n`);
fs.writeFileSync(lastUpdateCheckPath, `${new Date().toISOString()}\n`);
const server = option("--server", "https://burnboard.cc");
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@0.3.3/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;
...
L34: if (fs.existsSync(existingConfigPath)) try { savedServer = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(existingConfigPath, "utf8").replace(/^\uFEFF/, "")).serverUrl; } catch {}
L35: const server = requestedServer || serverOverride || (mode
```

### 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@0.3.3/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 = 6425
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. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/burnboard-cli@0.3.3/cli.mjs>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = burnboard-cli@0.3.2
matchedIdentity = npm:YnVybmJvYXJkLWNsaQ:0.3.2
similarity = 0.667
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## 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:** 0.3.3
- **Version published:** 2026-08-23T11:52:36.321Z
- **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:** 21,879 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/burnboard-cli/v/0.3.3>)