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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/hippo-memory/v/1.52.4"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/hippo-memory/v/1.52.4.md"
package: "hippo-memory"
report_status: "published"
title: "hippo-memory@1.52.4 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "1.52.4"
---

# hippo-memory@1.52.4 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 15 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 1.52.4
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Source inspection found no concrete attack behavior. The postinstall does not perform first-time agent setup, while CLI integrations are user-invoked and the network code supports configured embedding providers.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-09T05:43:28.139Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-09T05:44:19.303Z
- **Download time:** 510 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3698 ms
- **AI review time:** 46955 ms
- **Total time:** 51164 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 attack was identified in the inspected source. The install hook repairs only a previously configured Codex wrapper and provides setup guidance; agent integration is initiated through the CLI.

- **Trigger:** Package installation runs the postinstall hook; agent integrations run when a user invokes CLI setup commands.

- **Impact:** No confirmed malicious effect or attack surface was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-09T05:44:19.303Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Postinstall checks for existing wrapper metadata before repairing it. CLI setup detects agent configuration and installs package-owned hooks or plugins. Embedding requests use the configured provider and HTTPS-validated endpoint.

- **Rationale:** Source inspection found no concrete attack behavior. The postinstall does not perform first-time agent setup, while CLI integrations are user-invoked and the network code supports configured embedding providers.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The postinstall imports a repair routine that returns without action when no prior Codex wrapper metadata exists., Capture code reads session files from the user’s local Claude projects directory., Project hook setup runs from the CLI init command; it detects agent config files and can be disabled with --no-hooks., The OpenCode plugin installer is an exported setup operation, and the package exposes a matching uninstall operation., Embedding API use depends on configured provider and credentials; configured base URLs must use HTTPS except for localhost., Predictions code uses the package’s local database and memory store.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to hippo-memory@1.52.4.

- Review the evidence and your use of hippo-memory@1.52.4 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/hippo-memory@1.52.4/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.cjs
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/hippo-memory@1.52.4/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.cjs
```

### 3. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 5. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** dist/embeddings.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/hippo-memory@1.52.4/dist/embeddings.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L99: // Promise<object> names that honestly without claiming a specific module shape.
L100: const _dynImport = new Function('s', 'return import(s)');
L101: /**
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/rerankers/cross-encoder.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/hippo-memory@1.52.4/dist/rerankers/cross-encoder.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: const MODEL_NAME = 'Xenova/ms-marco-MiniLM-L-6-v2';
L4: const _require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
L5: const TRANSFORMERS_PACKAGES = ['@huggingface/transformers', '@xenova/transformers'];
```

### 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: Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/hooks.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/hippo-memory@1.52.4/dist/hooks.js>)

Manifest-trigger-reachable source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-trigger-reachable source links an external AI-agent control path to a behavior-bearing write operation.
}
        }
    }
    return out;
}
function [redacted](historypath, startoffsetbytes) {
    if (!fs.existssync(historypath))
        return [];
    const raw = fs.readfilesync(historypath);
    if (startoffsetbytes >= raw.length)
        return [];
    const delta = raw.subarray(startoffsetbytes).tostring('utf8');
    const seen = new set();
    const ordered = [];
    for (const line of delta.split('\n')) {
        if (!line.trim())
            continue;
        try {
            const parsed = json.parse(line);
            const sessionid = parsed.session_id;
            if (isjsonstring(sessionid) && sessionid && !seen.has(sessionid)) {
                seen.add(sessionid);
```

### 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: 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. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/embedding-provider.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/hippo-memory@1.52.4/dist/embedding-provider.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 = 5
```

### 15. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/predictions.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/hippo-memory@1.52.4/dist/predictions.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = hippo-memory@1.24.0
matchedPath = dist/predictions.js
matchedIdentity = npm:aGlwcG8tbWVtb3J5:1.24.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 5
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** hippo-memory
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.52.4
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-28T10:34:50.026Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-02T20:54:08.157Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-16T11:25:08.945Z
- **Known versions:** 52
- **Latest version:** 2.1.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Memory for AI agents that learns what is wrong and stops repeating it. MCP server and hooks for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. SQLite, zero runtime deps.
- **Author:** Keith
- **Maintainers:** kitfunso
- **Keywords:** memory, agent-memory, ai-memory, llm-memory, long-term-memory, persistent-memory, memory-layer, mcp, mcp-server, model-context-protocol, claude-code, claude
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.16.0
- **Artifact files:** 275
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 3,689,807 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/hippo-memory/v/1.52.4>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/kitfunso/hippo-memory>)
- [Homepage](<https://hippo-memory.com/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/kitfunso/hippo-memory/issues>)
