---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/owlmem"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/owlmem/report.md"
package: "owlmem"
report_status: "published"
title: "owlmem@0.9.15 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.9.15"
---

# owlmem@0.9.15 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 16 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:** 0.9.15
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The flagged credential flow reads Claude Code’s sign-in only for an owner-enabled quota feature and sends it to Anthropic’s own usage endpoint; resulting quota data goes to OwlMem. The CLI’s execution and background features require explicit commands or setup, and no unrelated collection or hidden automatic behavior was found.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-04T14:11:43.810Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-04T14:12:35.712Z
- **Download time:** 1527 ms
- **Static scan time:** 304 ms
- **AI review time:** 50070 ms
- **Total time:** 51902 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. The package provides an OwlMem vault CLI and optional background auto-wake functionality.

- **Trigger:** CLI commands run when invoked; auto-wake requires explicit setup, and Claude quota reading requires an owner-enabled setting.

- **Impact:** The reviewed behavior matches the package’s stated features; no unrelated credential collection or exfiltration was identified.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-04T14:12:35.712Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Vault requests use the configured OwlMem service. When enabled, Claude quota lookup sends Claude Code’s access token to api.anthropic.com and reports quota data to OwlMem.

- **Rationale:** The flagged credential flow reads Claude Code’s sign-in only for an owner-enabled quota feature and sends it to Anthropic’s own usage endpoint; resulting quota data goes to OwlMem. The CLI’s execution and background features require explicit commands or setup, and no unrelated collection or hidden automatic behavior was found.

- **Files touched:** package.json, owlmem.mjs

- **Network endpoints:** https://owlmem.com, https://api.anthropic.com/api/oauth/usage, https://registry.npmjs.org

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest defines a CLI entrypoint and has no lifecycle scripts., The CLI sends its configured OwlMem token to the OwlMem API base URL for vault requests., Claude credentials are read only for a quota feature described as requiring the owner to enable it; the token is sent to Anthropic’s own usage endpoint., The quota is fetched only when the saved OwlMem configuration has \`read\_quota\` enabled for Claude Code., The command-line handler is guarded, so importing the module does not automatically run the CLI.

- **Evidence against:** The CLI can execute a user-specified command and pass it requested vault secrets via \`owlmem run\`., The explicitly enabled auto-wake feature runs in the background and reports usage status to OwlMem.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to owlmem@0.9.15.

- Review the evidence and your use of owlmem@0.9.15 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: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** owlmem.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/owlmem@0.9.15/owlmem.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L43: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
L44: import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L45:
```

### 2. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** owlmem.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/owlmem@0.9.15/owlmem.mjs>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L438: inputSchema: { type: "object", properties: {
L439: command: { type: "string", description: "Shell command to run (sh -c)" },
L440: env: { type: "object", description: 'Map of ENV_VAR to "item" or "item:field", e.g. {"DB_PASSWORD": "prod/db:password"}', additionalProperties: { type: "string" } },
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 6. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** owlmem.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/owlmem@0.9.15/owlmem.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L43: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
L44: import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L45: 
L46: export const VERSION = "0.9.15";
L47: const BASE = (process.env.OWLMEM_URL || "https://owlmem.com").replace(/\/$/, "");
L48: const DIR = process.env.OWLMEM_HOME || join(process.env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME || join(homedir(), ".config"), "owlmem");
```

### 7. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** owlmem.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/owlmem@0.9.15/owlmem.mjs>)

Source appears to send environment or credential material to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L16: //   owlmem vault ls
L17: //   owlmem vault get <name> [field]      prints the item (or one field) to stdout
L18: //   owlmem vault put <name> [--desc text] < value-or-json
...
L39: import { readFileSync, writeFileSync, mkdirSync, existsSync, chmodSync, copyFileSync, rmSync, statSync, realpathSync, openSync, closeSync, appendFileSync, renameSync, readdirSync, ...
L40: import { gunzipSync } from "node:zlib";
L41: import { homedir, hostname, userInfo } from "node:os";
...
L43: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
L44: import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L45: 
L46: export const VERSION = "0.9.15";
L47: const BASE = (process.env.OWLMEM_URL || "https://owlmem.com").replace(/\/$/, "");
L48: const DIR = process.env.OWLMEM_HOME || join(process.env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME || jo
```

### 8. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** owlmem.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/owlmem@0.9.15/owlmem.mjs>)

Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L43: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
L44: import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L45: 
L46: export const VERSION = "0.9.15";
L47: const BASE = (process.env.OWLMEM_URL || "https://owlmem.com").replace(/\/$/, "");
L48: const DIR = process.env.OWLMEM_HOME || join(process.env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME || join(homedir(), ".config"), "owlmem");
L49: const enc = new TextEncoder(), dec = new TextDecoder();
L50: const say = (...a) => process.stderr.write(a.join(" ") + "\n");
L51: class Fail extends Error {}
```

### 9. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** owlmem.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/owlmem@0.9.15/owlmem.mjs>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L16: //   owlmem vault ls
L17: //   owlmem vault get <name> [field]      prints the item (or one field) to stdout
L18: //   owlmem vault put <name> [--desc text] < value-or-json
...
L39: import { readFileSync, writeFileSync, mkdirSync, existsSync, chmodSync, copyFileSync, rmSync, statSync, realpathSync, openSync, closeSync, appendFileSync, renameSync, readdirSync, ...
L40: import { gunzipSync } from "node:zlib";
L41: import { homedir, hostname, userInfo } from "node:os";
...
L43: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
L44: import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L45: 
L46: export const VERSION = "0.9.15";
L47: const BASE = (process.env.OWLMEM_URL || "https://owlmem.com").replace(/\/$/, "");
L48: const DIR = process.env.OWLMEM_HOME || join(process.env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME || jo
```

### 10. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** owlmem.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/owlmem@0.9.15/owlmem.mjs>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: manifest.bin -> owlmem.mjs
L16: //   owlmem vault ls
L17: //   owlmem vault get <name> [field]      prints the item (or one field) to stdout
L18: //   owlmem vault put <name> [--desc text] < value-or-json
...
L39: import { readFileSync, writeFileSync, mkdirSync, existsSync, chmodSync, copyFileSync, rmSync, statSync, realpathSync, openSync, closeSync, appendFileSync, renameSync, readdirSync, ...
L40: import { gunzipSync } from "node:zlib";
L41: import { homedir, hostname, userInfo } from "node:os";
...
L43: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
L44: import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L45: 
L46: export const VERSION = "0.9.15";
L47: const BASE = (process.env.OWLMEM_URL || "https://owlmem.com").replace(/\/$/, "");
L48: const DIR = process.env.O
```

### 11. High: Trigger Reachable Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** owlmem.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/owlmem@0.9.15/owlmem.mjs>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches credential exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable credential exfiltration chain: manifest.bin -> owlmem.mjs
L16: //   owlmem vault ls
L17: //   owlmem vault get <name> [field]      prints the item (or one field) to stdout
L18: //   owlmem vault put <name> [--desc text] < value-or-json
...
L39: import { readFileSync, writeFileSync, mkdirSync, existsSync, chmodSync, copyFileSync, rmSync, statSync, realpathSync, openSync, closeSync, appendFileSync, renameSync, readdirSync, ...
L40: import { gunzipSync } from "node:zlib";
L41: import { homedir, hostname, userInfo } from "node:os";
...
L43: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
L44: import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L45: 
L46: export const VERSION = "0.9.15";
L47: const BASE = (process.env.OWLMEM_URL || "https://owlmem.com").replace(/\/$/, "");
L48: c
```

### 12. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** owlmem.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/owlmem@0.9.15/owlmem.mjs>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches command-output exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable command-output exfiltration chain: manifest.bin -> owlmem.mjs
L43: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
L44: import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L45: 
L46: export const VERSION = "0.9.15";
L47: const BASE = (process.env.OWLMEM_URL || "https://owlmem.com").replace(/\/$/, "");
L48: const DIR = process.env.OWLMEM_HOME || join(process.env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME || join(homedir(), ".config"), "owlmem");
L49: const enc = new TextEncoder(), dec = new TextDecoder();
L50: const say = (...a) => process.stderr.write(a.join(" ") + "\n");
L51: class Fail extends Error {}
```

### 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. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** owlmem.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/owlmem@0.9.15/owlmem.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_alias_growth_limit_exceeded; limitedFiles = 1
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** owlmem
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.9.15
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-11-04T14:08:16.952Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-10-24T02:02:01.165Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T14:12:35.712Z
- **Known versions:** 23
- **Latest version:** 0.9.15
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** OwlMem command line: connect your AI apps to OwlMem in one command (npx -y owlmem install), an end-to-end encrypted vault for your AI agents, and a local MCP server.
- **Maintainers:** owlmem
- **Keywords:** mcp, ai-agents, vault, secrets, claude, codex, cursor
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 4
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 146,050 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/owlmem>)
- [Homepage](<https://owlmem.com/>)