---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/burnboard-cli/v/0.4.5"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/burnboard-cli/v/0.4.5.md"
package: "burnboard-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "burnboard-cli@0.4.5 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.4.5"
---

# burnboard-cli@0.4.5 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as AI-agent capability risk** — Allowed by default with warning: agent-facing configuration or capability changes need review before use.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only AI-agent capability risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** AI-agent capability abuse
- **Selected version:** 0.4.5
- **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.

The package has a real privacy and persistence risk because an explicit command installs continuous cross-tool data collection, uploads it, and mutates Claude settings. No automatic npm lifecycle trigger or confirmed secret or conversation-content theft was found.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-13T16:03:34.643Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-13T16:04:27.106Z
- **Download time:** 520 ms
- **Static scan time:** 116 ms
- **AI review time:** 51826 ms
- **Total time:** 52463 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:** After an explicit CLI setup or connection, the package creates a persistent tracker that reads AI-tool usage records and uploads usage buckets. It also changes Claude configuration and schedules recurring execution and updates.

- **Trigger:** The user runs a BurnBoard join, connect, setup, or update command.

- **Impact:** Local AI-tool metadata is continuously sent to the configured BurnBoard server, and the user's Claude settings and background scheduler are modified.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-13T16:04:27.106Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Persistent collection and upload of local AI-tool usage metadata.

- **Rationale:** The package has a real privacy and persistence risk because an explicit command installs continuous cross-tool data collection, uploads it, and mutates Claude settings. No automatic npm lifecycle trigger or confirmed secret or conversation-content theft was found.

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

- **Network endpoints:** https://burnboard.cc, http://127.0.0.1

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** The CLI reads local Claude, Cursor, OpenCode, Codex, and Antigravity usage records and sends aggregated usage to the configured server., It extracts an Antigravity CSRF token from local logs and uses it to query a loopback conversation service., Explicit setup installs a recurring background sync and an automatic update command that fetches the latest package release., Setup removes telemetry-related settings from the user's Claude configuration.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no preinstall, install, or postinstall lifecycle hook., The risky setup path is reached from explicit CLI connection or setup actions, not package installation., The submitted records are usage buckets; the inspected upload code does not transmit conversation text.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to burnboard-cli@0.4.5.

- Review the evidence and your use of burnboard-cli@0.4.5 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. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** install/burnboard-agent.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/burnboard-cli@0.4.5/install/burnboard-agent.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: import path from "node:path";
L4: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L5: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** install/burnboard-agent.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/burnboard-cli@0.4.5/install/burnboard-agent.mjs>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L50: `;
L51: spawnSync("powershell.exe", ["-NoLogo", "-NoProfile", "-NonInteractive", "-EncodedCommand", Buffer.from(script, "utf16le").toString("base64")], {
L52: stdio:"ignore", env:{ ...process.env, BURNBOARD_NOTIFICATION_TITLE:title, BURNBOARD_NOTIFICATION_MESSAGE:message, BURNBOARD_NOTIFICATION_URL:notificationUrl },
```

### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** install/burnboard-agent.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/burnboard-cli@0.4.5/install/burnboard-agent.mjs>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: let DatabaseSync;
L7: try { if (!process.env.BURNBOARD_FORCE_SQLITE_FALLBACK) ({ DatabaseSync } = await import("node:sqlite")); } catch {}
L8:
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

### 6. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/burnboard-cli@0.4.5/cli.mjs>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L98: fs.writeFileSync(path.join(burnboardRoot, "config.json"), `${JSON.stringify({ serverUrl:server, token:enrollment.token, profileUrl:enrollment.profileUrl }, null, 2)}\n`);
L99: if (process.env.BURNBOARD_CLI_TEST_MODE === "1") return;
L100: if (setup("Connected BurnBoard User", "connect", server) !== 0) throw new Error("Connected, but the local tracker could not be installed. Run `npx --yes burnboard-cli@latest update...
...
L108: if (fs.existsSync(existingConfigPath)) try { savedServer = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(existingConfigPath, "utf8").replace(/^\uFEFF/, "")).serverUrl; } catch {}
L109: const server = requestedServer || serverOverride || (mode !== "connect" ? savedServer : undefined) || "https://burnboard.cc";
L110: if (!name || name.startsWith("--")) throw new Error('A name is r
```

### 9. Critical: Hardcoded Runtime Data Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/burnboard-cli@0.4.5/cli.mjs>)

Source sends credentials or rich application records to a package-controlled external receiver enabled by default.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Source sends the broad process environment to a literal external destination.
L4: import path from "node:path";
L5: import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L6: import { randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
...
L15: const installRoot = path.join(packageRoot, "install");
L16: const burnboardRoot = path.join(os.homedir(), ".burnboard");
L17: const cliVersion = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(packageRoot, "package.json"), "utf8")).version;
L18: const installedVersionPath = path.join(burnboardRoot, "cli-version");
...
L24: const args = process.argv.slice(optionOnly ? 2 : 3);
L25: const richTerminal = Boolean(process.stdout.isTTY && process.stdin.isTTY);
L26: const brandColorEnabled = richTerminal && !process.env.NO_COLOR && process.env.TERM !== "dumb";
L27: const brandColor = (r
```

### 10. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/burnboard-cli@0.4.5/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 { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L6: import { randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
...
L15: const installRoot = path.join(packageRoot, "install");
L16: const burnboardRoot = path.join(os.homedir(), ".burnboard");
L17: const cliVersion = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(packageRoot, "package.json"), "utf8")).version;
L18: const installedVersionPath = path.join(burnboardRoot, "cli-version");
...
L24: const args = process.argv.slice(optionOnly ? 2 : 3);
L25: const richTerminal = Boolean(process.stdout.isTTY && process.stdin.isTTY);
L26: const brandColorEnabled = richTerminal && !process.env.NO_COLOR && process.env.TERM !== "dumb";
L27: const brandColor = (red, green, blue) => (value) => brandColorEnabled
...
L77: if (process.env.BURN
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 13. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** install/burnboard-register-notifications.ps1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/burnboard-cli@0.4.5/install/burnboard-register-notifications.ps1>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = install/burnboard-register-notifications.ps1
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 4418
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 14. 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.

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

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

- **Dependencies:** 3
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 3

### Published dependency entries
- @clack/prompts ^0.11.0 (Dependency)
- better-sqlite3 ^11.10.0 (Dependency)
- picocolors ^1.1.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** burnboard-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.4.5
- **Version published:** 2026-09-02T21:41:32.193Z
- **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, opencode
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 7
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 85,679 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/burnboard-cli/v/0.4.5>)