---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/burnboard-cli/v/0.4.6"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/burnboard-cli/v/0.4.6.md"
package: "burnboard-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "burnboard-cli@0.4.6 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.4.6"
---

# burnboard-cli@0.4.6 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:** 0.4.6
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **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 implements a real persistent collection and upload capability that changes an AI-tool configuration and self-updates. Because activation follows an explicit CLI sign-in and there is no npm lifecycle hook, this warrants a warning rather than a publication block.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-04T15:51:41.391Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-04T15:53:47.351Z
- **Download time:** 507 ms
- **Static scan time:** 174 ms
- **AI review time:** 125279 ms
- **Total time:** 125960 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 interactive sign-in, the CLI installs a persistent local tracker. It reads AI-tool usage records and uploads aggregated buckets to the configured BurnBoard server.

- **Trigger:** The user runs the CLI and completes sign-in, or later runs setup, sync, or the installed scheduled job.

- **Impact:** It changes Claude configuration, persists background jobs, and sends local AI usage metadata to BurnBoard.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-04T15:53:47.351Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Local AI usage collection, upload, and recurring self-update setup.

- **Rationale:** The package implements a real persistent collection and upload capability that changes an AI-tool configuration and self-updates. Because activation follows an explicit CLI sign-in and there is no npm lifecycle hook, this warrants a warning rather than a publication block.

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

- **Network endpoints:** burnboard.cc, 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 agent reads local Codex session files and uploads collected usage buckets with a stored bearer token., The setup script alters Claude settings and creates recurring sync plus automatic latest-version update jobs., A successful interactive sign-in automatically launches the installer and enables five-minute syncing.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook., The observed network upload sends aggregated usage buckets; the code does not upload session text.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to burnboard-cli@0.4.6.

- Review the evidence and your use of burnboard-cli@0.4.6 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@0.4.6/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 { DatabaseSync } from "node:sqlite";
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** install/burnboard-agent.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/burnboard-cli@0.4.6/install/burnboard-agent.mjs>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L40: `;
L41: spawnSync("powershell.exe", ["-NoLogo", "-NoProfile", "-NonInteractive", "-EncodedCommand", Buffer.from(script, "utf16le").toString("base64")], {
L42: stdio:"ignore", env:{ ...process.env, BURNBOARD_NOTIFICATION_TITLE:title, BURNBOARD_NOTIFICATION_MESSAGE:message, BURNBOARD_NOTIFICATION_URL:notificationUrl },
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/burnboard-cli@0.4.6/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
L95: fs.writeFileSync(path.join(burnboardRoot, "config.json"), `${JSON.stringify({ serverUrl:server, token:enrollment.token, profileUrl:enrollment.profileUrl }, null, 2)}\n`);
L96: if (process.env.BURNBOARD_CLI_TEST_MODE === "1") return;
L97: 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...
...
L105: if (fs.existsSync(existingConfigPath)) try { savedServer = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(existingConfigPath, "utf8").replace(/^\uFEFF/, "")).serverUrl; } catch {}
L106: const server = requestedServer || serverOverride || (mode !== "connect" ? savedServer : undefined) || "https://burnboard.cc";
L107: if (!name || name.startsWith("--")) throw new Error('A name is re
```

### 8. Critical: Hardcoded Runtime Data Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/burnboard-cli@0.4.6/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";
...
L12: const installRoot = path.join(packageRoot, "install");
L13: const burnboardRoot = path.join(os.homedir(), ".burnboard");
L14: const cliVersion = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(packageRoot, "package.json"), "utf8")).version;
L15: const installedVersionPath = path.join(burnboardRoot, "cli-version");
...
L21: const args = process.argv.slice(optionOnly ? 2 : 3);
L22: const richTerminal = Boolean(process.stdout.isTTY && process.stdin.isTTY);
L23: const brandColorEnabled = richTerminal && !process.env.NO_COLOR && process.env.TERM !== "dumb";
L24: const brandColor = (r
```

### 9. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/burnboard-cli@0.4.6/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";
...
L12: const installRoot = path.join(packageRoot, "install");
L13: const burnboardRoot = path.join(os.homedir(), ".burnboard");
L14: const cliVersion = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(packageRoot, "package.json"), "utf8")).version;
L15: const installedVersionPath = path.join(burnboardRoot, "cli-version");
...
L21: const args = process.argv.slice(optionOnly ? 2 : 3);
L22: const richTerminal = Boolean(process.stdout.isTTY && process.stdin.isTTY);
L23: const brandColorEnabled = richTerminal && !process.env.NO_COLOR && process.env.TERM !== "dumb";
L24: const brandColor = (red, green, blue) => (value) => brandColorEnabled
...
L74: if (process.env.BURN
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 12. 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@0.4.6/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]
```

### 13. 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.

### 14. 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:** 2
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 2

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** burnboard-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.4.6
- **Version published:** 2026-09-04T13:12:56.770Z
- **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: \>=22.5.0
- **Artifact files:** 7
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 83,795 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/burnboard-cli/v/0.4.6>)