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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/crescodb/v/0.2.8"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/crescodb/v/0.2.8.md"
package: "crescodb"
report_status: "published"
title: "crescodb@0.2.8 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.2.8"
---

# crescodb@0.2.8 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:** 0.2.8
- **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.

Source inspection found no covert installation hook, remote payload loading, credential harvesting, or exfiltration chain. The package nevertheless embeds an approval-bypassable, unsandboxed AI command runner, so it warrants a warning for dangerous runtime capability rather than a publish block.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 90.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-13T12:47:33.712Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-13T12:48:50.737Z
- **Download time:** 507 ms
- **Static scan time:** 557 ms
- **AI review time:** 75961 ms
- **Total time:** 77025 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:** No install-time attack behavior was found. During explicit \`cresco dev\` use, the built-in AI agent can edit project files and execute shell commands; commands are normally approval-gated but an owner setting can enable automatic execution.

- **Trigger:** User runs \`cresco dev\` and uses the localhost AI-agent interface; auto-execution requires its runtime setting.

- **Impact:** An agent prompt or compromised AI response could execute commands with the developer's privileges when auto-run is enabled.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-07-13T12:48:50.737Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Local AI-agent project editing and shell-command execution.

- **Rationale:** Source inspection found no covert installation hook, remote payload loading, credential harvesting, or exfiltration chain. The package nevertheless embeds an approval-bypassable, unsandboxed AI command runner, so it warrants a warning for dangerous runtime capability rather than a publish block.

- **Files touched:** ~/.cresco/config.json, \<project-root\>/.env, \<project-root\>/config.json, \<project-root\>/cresco.db, \<project-root\>/cresco.routes.js

- **Network endpoints:** https://api.crescodb.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 90.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** \`src/core/agent-exec.js\` runs arbitrary shell commands in the project with developer privileges., \`src/server/dev-server.js\` can auto-run agent-requested commands when its owner setting enables it., \`src/ai/provider.js\` reads \`~/.cresco/config.json\` for a login token and sends AI requests to the package platform.

- **Evidence against:** \`package.json\` has no preinstall, install, postinstall, or prepare lifecycle hook., AI filesystem operations are project-root constrained and refuse \`.env\`, \`config.json\`, and database files in \`src/core/agent-fs.js\`., Custom-route dynamic import loads the developer project's supplied routes file, not a remote payload., Observed platform host is package-aligned: \`https://api.crescodb.com\`.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to crescodb@0.2.8.

- Review the evidence and your use of crescodb@0.2.8 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@0.2.8/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@0.2.8/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. Medium: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** src/server/manifest.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/crescodb@0.2.8/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:** 0.2.8
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-07-13T12:31:33.368Z
- **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:** 174
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,745,029 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/crescodb/v/0.2.8>)