---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/owlmem/v/0.9.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/owlmem/v/0.9.2.md"
package: "owlmem"
report_status: "published"
title: "owlmem@0.9.2 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.9.2"
---

# owlmem@0.9.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 16 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Telemetry warning (can be blocked)
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Telemetry
- **Selected version:** 0.9.2
- **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 silently reports aggregated Claude Code and Codex usage from local session files while auto-wake is running. Because the README does not disclose this runtime telemetry, warn rather than block; the inspected report contains aggregates rather than prompts or transcript contents.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 89.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-31T05:16:43.951Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-31T05:17:23.863Z
- **Download time:** 260 ms
- **Static scan time:** 285 ms
- **AI review time:** 39366 ms
- **Total time:** 39912 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:** Undisclosed runtime reporting sends aggregate AI usage data to OwlMem while auto-wake is active.

- **Trigger:** The user enables auto-wake; its background process starts reporting after 30 seconds and repeats periodically.

- **Impact:** OwlMem receives activity and quota summaries from local AI sessions without this reporting being described in the README.

- **Evidence paths:** owlmem.mjs, README.md

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-31T05:17:23.863Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The program scans local Claude Code and Codex session files, summarizes usage and status, and posts the summaries to OwlMem.

- **Rationale:** The package silently reports aggregated Claude Code and Codex usage from local session files while auto-wake is running. Because the README does not disclose this runtime telemetry, warn rather than block; the inspected report contains aggregates rather than prompts or transcript contents.

- **Files touched:** ~/.claude/projects/\*\*/\*.jsonl, ~/.codex/sessions/\*\*/\*.jsonl, ~/.config/owlmem/wake/usage.json

- **Network endpoints:** owlmem.com/v1/wake/usage, api.anthropic.com/api/oauth/usage

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 89.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** Auto-wake reads Claude Code and Codex session directories from the user's home or configured directories., It derives per-day, per-app token usage and status summaries from those session files., While auto-wake runs, it periodically sends those summaries to OwlMem at \`/v1/wake/usage\`; the README does not describe this reporting., The reporting runs only when auto-wake has been set up, which requires an explicit enable action.

- **Evidence against:** The usage report contains aggregates and status fields rather than transcript text or prompts., The Claude OAuth token is sent to Anthropic's own usage endpoint, and the source says this happens only when the owner enables quota reading in the console., The package's documented purpose includes running an opted-in background auto-wake service.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to owlmem@0.9.2.

- Review the evidence and your use of owlmem@0.9.2 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@0.9.2/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@0.9.2/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@0.9.2/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 = "0.9.2";
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. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** owlmem.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/owlmem@0.9.2/owlmem.mjs>)

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

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, readdirSync, ...
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 = "0.9.2";
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
```

### 8. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** owlmem.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/owlmem@0.9.2/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 = "0.9.2";
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 {}
```

### 9. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** owlmem.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/owlmem@0.9.2/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, readdirSync, ...
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 = "0.9.2";
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
```

### 10. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** owlmem.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/owlmem@0.9.2/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
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, readdirSync, ...
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 = "0.9.2";
L45: const BASE = (process.env.OWLMEM_URL || "https://owlmem.com").replace(/\/$/, "");
L46: const DIR = process.env.OW
```

### 11. High: Trigger Reachable Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** owlmem.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/owlmem@0.9.2/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
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, readdirSync, ...
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 = "0.9.2";
L45: const BASE = (process.env.OWLMEM_URL || "https://owlmem.com").replace(/\/$/, "");
L46: co
```

### 12. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** owlmem.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/owlmem@0.9.2/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 = "0.9.2";
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 {}
```

### 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@0.9.2/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:** 0.9.2
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-31T05:13:34.973Z
- **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:** 130,405 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/owlmem/v/0.9.2>)
- [Homepage](<https://owlmem.com/>)