---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/excalidrop/v/0.2.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/excalidrop/v/0.2.1.md"
package: "excalidrop"
report_status: "published"
title: "excalidrop@0.2.1 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.2.1"
---

# excalidrop@0.2.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 19 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Credential Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 0.2.1
- **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’s documented relay feature sends a GitHub token to the vendor’s default relay during requested screenshot or viewport operations. Because the relay is disclosed and the transfer is tied to those operations, this is a warning-level credential exposure risk rather than clear evidence of malicious collection.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-01T11:00:15.681Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-01T11:01:22.805Z
- **Download time:** 506 ms
- **Static scan time:** 5568 ms
- **AI review time:** 61049 ms
- **Total time:** 67124 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:** A GitHub credential is exposed to the package’s relay during relay-backed canvas operations.

- **Trigger:** An MCP client requests a screenshot or viewport operation while relay use is enabled by default.

- **Impact:** The relay receives a GitHub credential that may carry broader account or repository access than the requested canvas operation requires.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/mcp.js, README.md

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-01T11:01:22.805Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The server obtains a GitHub token from the environment, GitHub CLI, or its saved token file and includes it as a Bearer token in a POST to the relay.

- **Rationale:** The package’s documented relay feature sends a GitHub token to the vendor’s default relay during requested screenshot or viewport operations. Because the relay is disclosed and the transfer is tied to those operations, this is a warning-level credential exposure risk rather than clear evidence of malicious collection.

- **Files touched:** ~/.config/excalidrop/gh\_token

- **Network endpoints:** excalidrop.wtf403.workers.dev, api.github.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 86.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The MCP server resolves a GitHub token from GITHUB\_TOKEN, \`gh auth token\`, or \`~/.config/excalidrop/gh\_token\`., Relay requests send that token as a Bearer authorization header to the configured relay, which defaults to \`excalidrop.wtf403.workers.dev\`; relay use is enabled by default., The relay path is used for screenshot requests, and the README identifies screenshots and viewport control as shared-relay features., The token is sent during a requested relay operation, rather than automatically during package installation or server startup.

- **Evidence against:** The package’s stated purpose is a remote GitHub-backed canvas, and its normal drawing and storage operations use GitHub’s API., The README discloses the shared relay and documents \`EXCALIDROP\_NO\_RELAY\` as a way to use a GitHub command-queue fallback., The manifest’s \`prepare\` and \`prepublishOnly\` scripts build the package; no install-time data collection was identified.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to excalidrop@0.2.1.

- Review the evidence and your use of excalidrop@0.2.1 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: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

### 2. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. High: High Secret
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/frontend/assets/index-GTq6y6g6.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/excalidrop@0.2.1/dist/frontend/assets/index-GTq6y6g6.js>)

Package contains a high-severity secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 41
```

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/mcp.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/excalidrop@0.2.1/dist/mcp.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5: process.env.NO_COLOR = '1';
L6: import { execSync } from 'node:child_process';
L7: import { deflateSync } from 'zlib';
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package source references shell execution.

### 6. High: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/frontend/assets/subset-shared.chunk.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/excalidrop@0.2.1/dist/frontend/assets/subset-shared.chunk.js>)

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{bB as Vg}from"./index-GTq6y6g6.js";var vC=(()=>{let F=new Uint8Array(128);for(let L=0;L<64;L++)F[L<26?L+65:L<52?L+71:L<62?L-4:L*4-205]=L;return L=>{let I=L.length,c=new Uint...
L2: ${I.extraStackTrace()}`),hI(A)}function sI(A,g,C,Q){w(`Assertion failed: ${$(A)}, at: ${[g?$(g):"unknown filename",C,Q?$(Q):"unknown function"]}`)}function NI(A){return yA(A)}funct...
L3: "use strict";    return body.apply(this, arguments);
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 10. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/mcp.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/excalidrop@0.2.1/dist/mcp.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L49: }
L50: const APP_CLIENT_ID = process.env.GITHUB_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID || 'Iv23liuS2fx3QOEIoDmx';
L51: const RELAY_URL = process.env.EXCALIDROP_RELAY_URL || 'https://excalidrop.wtf403.workers.dev';
L52: const CONFIG_NAME = '.excalidrop.json';
...
L59: try {
L60: const t = execSync('gh auth token', { encoding: 'utf8', stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'ignore'] }).trim();
L61: if (t)
```

### 11. Critical: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** skills/excalidraw-skill/scripts/gh-helper.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/excalidrop@0.2.1/skills/excalidraw-skill/scripts/gh-helper.cjs>)

Source executes local commands and sends command output to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
bounded command output exfiltration = const { execsync } = require('node:child_process');\n\nconst branch = process.env.canvas_branch || 'excalidrop';\nconst scene_path = process.env.scene_path || 'canvas.excalidraw';\n\nfunction repofromargs(args, envdefault) {\n  const i = args.findindex((a) => a === '--repo');\n  if (i !== -1 && args[i + 1]) return args[i + 1];\n  const flag = args.find((a) => a.startswith('--repo='));\n  if (flag) return flag.split('=').slice(1).join('=');\n  if (process.env.excalidrop_repo) return process.env.excalidrop_repo;\n  if (envdefault) return envdefault;\n  try {\n    const url = execsync('git config --get remote.origin.url', { encoding: 'utf8' }).trim().replace(/\.git$/, '');\n    const m = url.match(/github\.com[:/](.+)/);\n    if (m) return m[1].tolowercas
```

### 12. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/excalidrop@0.2.1/dist/cli.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L189: const WRANGLER = ['-y', 'wrangler@4'];
L190: const create = spawnSync('npx', [...WRANGLER, 'pages', 'project', 'create', project, '--force', '--production-branch=main'], { stdio: 'pipe', encoding: 'utf8', env: process.env });
L191: const createOut = (create.stdout || '') + (create.stderr || '');
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 15. 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.

### 16. Medium: Wildcard Dependency
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest contains a wildcard dependency.

### 17. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/frontend/assets/advancedFormat-CsxROTkH.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/excalidrop@0.2.1/dist/frontend/assets/advancedFormat-CsxROTkH.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 8
```

### 18. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/excalidrop@0.2.1/dist/cli.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 = excalidrop@0.1.4
matchedIdentity = npm:ZXhjYWxpZHJvcA:0.1.4
similarity = 0.817
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

### 19. High: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/frontend/assets/index-GTq6y6g6.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/excalidrop@0.2.1/dist/frontend/assets/index-GTq6y6g6.js>)

Google API key in dist/frontend/assets/index-GTq6y6g6.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 41
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepare, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 4
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 12
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 4

### Published dependency entries
- @clack/prompts ^0.9.1 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk latest (Dependency)
- dotenv ^16.3.1 (Dependency)
- zod ^3.22.4 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** excalidrop
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.2.1
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-12T15:41:06.506Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-12T00:45:40.591Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-01T11:06:45.471Z
- **Known versions:** 11
- **Latest version:** 0.2.15
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Remote GitHub-backed Excalidraw canvas + MCP server — no local server, one-command setup
- **Author:** yctimlin
- **Maintainers:** wtf403
- **Keywords:** excalidrop, excalidraw, model-context-protocol, ai, drawing, diagrams, canvas, real-time, websocket, visualization, claude, ai-tools
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 185
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 9,270,139 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/excalidrop/v/0.2.1>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/wtf403/excalidrop>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/wtf403/excalidrop#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/wtf403/excalidrop/issues>)
