---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/crescodb/v/0.2.4"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/crescodb/v/0.2.4.md"
package: "crescodb"
report_status: "published"
title: "crescodb@0.2.4 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.2.4"
---

# crescodb@0.2.4 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 10 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:** 0.2.4
- **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.

No concrete malicious chain was found: there are no lifecycle hooks, hidden payloads, or unconsented broad control-surface writes. The package nevertheless provides a remote-model-assisted, approval-gated shell capability that merits a warning as dangerous dual-use functionality.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-12T22:46:22.426Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-12T22:49:11.617Z
- **Download time:** 250 ms
- **Static scan time:** 605 ms
- **AI review time:** 168335 ms
- **Total time:** 169191 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:** The local AI coding agent can modify project files and execute arbitrary shell commands proposed by a remote model. Command execution requires a developer approval round-trip; no install-time execution or foreign agent-control mutation was found.

- **Trigger:** Run \`cresco dev\`, invoke the AI agent, then approve its proposed command.

- **Impact:** Approved commands can act with the developer's privileges in the project; model requests use the package-aligned platform API.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, src/server/dev-server.js, src/core/agent-exec.js, src/core/agent-fs.js, src/ai/provider.js, src/server/routes-loader.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-07-12T22:49:11.617Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Approval-gated model-driven project filesystem, SQL, and shell execution.

- **Rationale:** No concrete malicious chain was found: there are no lifecycle hooks, hidden payloads, or unconsented broad control-surface writes. The package nevertheless provides a remote-model-assisted, approval-gated shell capability that merits a warning as dangerous dual-use functionality.

- **Files touched:** src/server/dev-server.js, src/core/agent-exec.js, src/core/agent-fs.js, src/ai/provider.js, ~/.cresco/config.json, \<project-root\>

- **Network endpoints:** https://api.crescodb.com, https://api.crescodb.com/ai/openai/v1, https://api.crescodb.com/ai/anthropic

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** \`src/core/agent-exec.js\` passes agent-proposed commands to \`/bin/sh -c\` or PowerShell., \`src/server/dev-server.js\` exposes agent file, SQL, and command capabilities while \`cresco dev\` runs., \`src/ai/provider.js\` sends invoked AI work through \`https://api.crescodb.com\` when no local provider key exists.

- **Evidence against:** \`package.json\` has no preinstall, install, or postinstall lifecycle hook., \`src/server/dev-server.js\` pauses every \`run\_command\` request for explicit approval., \`src/core/agent-fs.js\` confines file operations to the project and refuses \`.env\`, \`config.json\`, and database writes., \`src/server/routes-loader.js\` imports only an existing project-owned routes file during dev reload.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to crescodb@0.2.4.

- Review the evidence and your use of crescodb@0.2.4 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. Medium: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** src/server/manifest.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/crescodb@0.2.4/src/server/manifest.js>)

Package contains a possible secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = generic_password
severity = medium
line = 36
matchedText = { method...} },
```

### 3. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** src/server/routes-loader.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/crescodb@0.2.4/src/server/routes-loader.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L22: try {
L23: const mod = await import(pathToFileURL(routesPath).href + '?t=' + Date.now());
L24: defs = mod.default || mod.routes || [];
```

### 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. 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. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** src/server/dev-server.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/crescodb@0.2.4/src/server/dev-server.js>)

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 = crescodb@0.2.1
matchedIdentity = npm:Y3Jlc2NvZGI:0.2.1
similarity = 0.931
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

### 10. Medium: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** src/server/manifest.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/crescodb@0.2.4/src/server/manifest.js>)

Hardcoded password in src/server/manifest.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = generic_password
severity = medium
line = 37
matchedText = { method...} },
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 12
- **Optional dependencies:** 5
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 1
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 17

### Published dependency entries
- @anthropic-ai/sdk ^0.105.0 (Dependency)
- better-sqlite3 ^12.11.1 (Dependency)
- chalk ^5.3.0 (Dependency)
- chokidar ^3.6.0 (Dependency)
- commander ^12.1.0 (Dependency)
- cors ^2.8.5 (Dependency)
- dotenv ^17.4.2 (Dependency)
- express ^4.19.2 (Dependency)
- openai ^4.47.1 (Dependency)
- ora ^8.0.1 (Dependency)
- uuid ^10.0.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^3.25.76 (Dependency)
- @aws-sdk/client-s3 ^3.1076.0 (OptionalDependency)
- embedded-postgres ^18.4.0-beta.17 (OptionalDependency)
- ioredis ^5.11.1 (OptionalDependency)
- mysql2 ^3.22.5 (OptionalDependency)
- pg ^8.22.0 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** crescodb
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.2.4
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-07-12T22:44:06.797Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-04T08:27:24.865Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-01T13:21:16.378Z
- **Known versions:** 13
- **Latest version:** 1.3.3
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Instant local backend — SQLite + auto REST API + AI schema generation
- **Deprecated:** Upgrade to crescodb@latest — versions below 1.0.0 are no longer supported and will be refused by the platform.
- **Maintainers:** saintray
- **Keywords:** sqlite, rest-api, cli, backend, scaffold
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 172
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,703,462 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/crescodb/v/0.2.4>)