---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/burnboard-cli/v/0.3.4"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/burnboard-cli/v/0.3.4.md"
package: "burnboard-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "burnboard-cli@0.3.4 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.3.4"
---

# burnboard-cli@0.3.4 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Remote server-controlled code can execute repeatedly and future package versions are fetched automatically.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Remote Code Execution
- **Selected version:** 0.3.4
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Explicit setup installs an unpinned remote JavaScript payload and persistently executes it. It also modifies Claude Code telemetry settings and schedules automatic latest-version updates.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 96.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-23T13:20:58.145Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-23T13:21:47.355Z
- **Download time:** 504 ms
- **Static scan time:** 48 ms
- **AI review time:** 48658 ms
- **Total time:** 49210 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Explicit setup installs an unpinned remote JavaScript payload and persistently executes it. It also modifies Claude Code telemetry settings and schedules automatic latest-version updates.

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

- **Impact:** Remote server-controlled code can execute repeatedly and future package versions are fetched automatically.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-23T13:21:47.355Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Remote payload download with recurring persistence and AI-tool configuration mutation.

- **Attack narrative:** A user-invoked setup obtains a remote agent without integrity pinning, writes it outside the package, and runs it immediately. The installer establishes cron, systemd, desktop-autostart, or Windows scheduled-task persistence so the remote-controlled agent runs every five minutes; it also schedules automatic installation of the latest CLI. It deletes Claude Code OpenTelemetry configuration, including exporter endpoints and headers, from the user's settings.

- **Rationale:** Although there is no install lifecycle hook, explicit CLI setup creates a concrete remote-code-execution and persistence chain and mutates a foreign AI-agent configuration surface. The source does not provide the downloaded agent for audit or pin it to a trusted digest.

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

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

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 96.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** Setup downloads an unpinned remote agent into ~/.burnboard., The downloaded agent is persistently run every five minutes and package updates are scheduled., Installer deletes Claude Code telemetry/export configuration, including endpoint and headers., Windows setup hides recurring execution behind VBS scheduled tasks.

- **Evidence against:** No npm preinstall/install/postinstall hook is declared., Behavior activates 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@0.3.4/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@0.3.4/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@0.3.4/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@0.3.4/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 = 6711
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:** install/burnboard-setup.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/burnboard-cli@0.3.4/install/burnboard-setup.sh>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = burnboard-cli@0.3.3
matchedIdentity = npm:YnVybmJvYXJkLWNsaQ:0.3.3
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:** 0.3.4
- **Version published:** 2026-08-23T13:18:45.574Z
- **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
- **Keywords:** burnboard, codex, claude-code, cursor, antigravity
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 4
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 22,165 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/burnboard-cli/v/0.3.4>)