---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/owlmem/v/0.7.7"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/owlmem/v/0.7.7.md"
package: "owlmem"
report_status: "published"
title: "owlmem@0.7.7 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.7.7"
---

# owlmem@0.7.7 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 13 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:** 0.7.7
- **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 inspected package has no lifecycle hook, and its vault token requests target the configurable service base, which defaults to OwlMem. The MCP vault\_run tool exposes caller-supplied shell execution with vault values, so it warrants a dangerous-capability warning without establishing malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-28T00:08:35.913Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-28T00:10:36.178Z
- **Download time:** 260 ms
- **Static scan time:** 261 ms
- **AI review time:** 119743 ms
- **Total time:** 120265 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 MCP server offers a tool that runs caller-supplied shell commands and can place selected vault values in their environment. This is a dangerous capability, though the inspected code does not show hidden command execution or package-controlled credential export.

- **Trigger:** A connected MCP client invokes vault\_run.

- **Impact:** A command can transmit or transform injected vault values; output masking does not restrict what the subprocess does.

- **Evidence paths:** owlmem.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-28T00:10:36.178Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The tool resolves requested vault items, starts sh -c with the supplied command, and returns output after masking exact secret strings.

- **Rationale:** The inspected package has no lifecycle hook, and its vault token requests target the configurable service base, which defaults to OwlMem. The MCP vault\_run tool exposes caller-supplied shell execution with vault values, so it warrants a dangerous-capability warning without establishing malicious behavior.

- **Network endpoints:** https://owlmem.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 manifest exposes a CLI entry point and contains no lifecycle hook., Vault authentication uses OWLMEM\_TOKEN or the saved config token, sends it to BASE, and defaults BASE to https://owlmem.com; the MCP branch is reached when the user runs the CLI with the mcp command., The MCP server exposes vault\_run. It places selected vault values in the environment of caller-supplied shell code and returns the command output with exact-value masking., Other flagged excerpts resolve to vault key, item, and auto-start helper code; they do not establish a separate credential recipient.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to owlmem@0.7.7.

- Review the evidence and your use of owlmem@0.7.7 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@0.7.7/owlmem.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L41: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
L42: import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L43:
```

### 2. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** owlmem.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/owlmem@0.7.7/owlmem.mjs>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L436: inputSchema: { type: "object", properties: {
L437: command: { type: "string", description: "Shell command to run (sh -c)" },
L438: 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@0.7.7/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
L41: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
L42: import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L43: 
L44: export const VERSION = "0.7.7";
L45: const BASE = (process.env.OWLMEM_URL || "https://owlmem.com").replace(/\/$/, "");
L46: const DIR = process.env.OWLMEM_HOME || join(process.env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME || join(homedir(), ".config"), "owlmem");
```

### 7. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** owlmem.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/owlmem@0.7.7/owlmem.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L41: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
L42: import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L43: 
L44: export const VERSION = "0.7.7";
L45: const BASE = (process.env.OWLMEM_URL || "https://owlmem.com").replace(/\/$/, "");
L46: const DIR = process.env.OWLMEM_HOME || join(process.env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME || join(homedir(), ".config"), "owlmem");
L47: const enc = new TextEncoder(), dec = new TextDecoder();
L48: const say = (...a) => process.stderr.write(a.join(" ") + "\n");
L49: class Fail extends Error {}
```

### 8. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** owlmem.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/owlmem@0.7.7/owlmem.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L14: //   owlmem vault ls
L15: //   owlmem vault get <name> [field]      prints the item (or one field) to stdout
L16: //   owlmem vault put <name> [--desc text] < value-or-json
...
L37: import { readFileSync, writeFileSync, mkdirSync, existsSync, chmodSync, copyFileSync, rmSync, statSync, realpathSync, openSync, closeSync, appendFileSync, renameSync } from "node:f...
L38: import { gunzipSync } from "node:zlib";
L39: import { homedir, hostname, userInfo } from "node:os";
...
L41: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
L42: import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L43: 
L44: export const VERSION = "0.7.7";
L45: const BASE = (process.env.OWLMEM_URL || "https://owlmem.com").replace(/\/$/, "");
L46: const DIR = process.env.OWLMEM_HOME || join(process.env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME || joi
```

### 9. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** owlmem.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/owlmem@0.7.7/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
L41: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
L42: import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L43: 
L44: export const VERSION = "0.7.7";
L45: const BASE = (process.env.OWLMEM_URL || "https://owlmem.com").replace(/\/$/, "");
L46: const DIR = process.env.OWLMEM_HOME || join(process.env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME || join(homedir(), ".config"), "owlmem");
L47: const enc = new TextEncoder(), dec = new TextDecoder();
L48: const say = (...a) => process.stderr.write(a.join(" ") + "\n");
L49: class Fail extends Error {}
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 12. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

### 13. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** owlmem.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/owlmem@0.7.7/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:** 0.7.7
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-28T00:06:13.116Z
- **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:** 114,292 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/owlmem/v/0.7.7>)
- [Homepage](<https://owlmem.com/>)