---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/owlmem/v/0.9.9"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/owlmem/v/0.9.9.md"
package: "owlmem"
report_status: "published"
title: "owlmem@0.9.9 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.9.9"
---

# owlmem@0.9.9 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:** 0.9.9
- **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.

Auto-wake sends local per-app token usage and quota summaries to OwlMem, but the README does not disclose this reporting. The Claude OAuth flow is gated by an owner setting and sends the token to Anthropic for its own quota service, so the evidence supports suspicious telemetry rather than credential exfiltration.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-03T00:28:42.494Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-03T00:29:25.206Z
- **Download time:** 251 ms
- **Static scan time:** 305 ms
- **AI review time:** 42155 ms
- **Total time:** 42712 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 telemetry reports local AI usage and quota summaries to OwlMem during auto-wake.

- **Trigger:** Starts during an explicitly enabled auto-wake run and repeats periodically; Claude quota collection additionally requires the owner-enabled \`read\_quota\` setting.

- **Impact:** OwlMem receives information about per-app token usage and quota status, which can reveal team activity. No credential theft or transcript-content exfiltration was identified.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-03T00:29:25.206Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Reads local session usage data, aggregates counters, and posts daily app usage and quota status to OwlMem. When enabled, it also reads Claude's OAuth token and uses it only for Anthropic's quota endpoint.

- **Rationale:** Auto-wake sends local per-app token usage and quota summaries to OwlMem, but the README does not disclose this reporting. The Claude OAuth flow is gated by an owner setting and sends the token to Anthropic for its own quota service, so the evidence supports suspicious telemetry rather than credential exfiltration.

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

- **Network endpoints:** owlmem.com, api.anthropic.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** Auto-wake reads local Claude Code and Codex session files and aggregates token usage by app and day., The runtime sends those aggregates and quota status to OwlMem's usage endpoint., The README describes auto-wake but does not mention this usage reporting., Claude OAuth is read for quota reporting only when the live agent has \`read\_quota\` enabled; the token goes to Anthropic's usage endpoint, and OwlMem receives quota percentages and reset times.

- **Evidence against:** The manifest has no lifecycle scripts; the package is a CLI whose entry point runs only when invoked as a command., The usage data is derived locally and consists of aggregate counters and quota status, not transcript text or file paths., The Claude credential flow uses the credential with its own service, api.anthropic.com, and is gated by the owner's quota setting.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to owlmem@0.9.9.

- Review the evidence and your use of owlmem@0.9.9 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@0.9.9/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@0.9.9/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@0.9.9/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 = "0.9.9";
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@0.9.9/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 = "0.9.9";
L47: const BASE = (process.env.OWLMEM_URL || "https://owlmem.com").replace(/\/$/, "");
L48: 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@0.9.9/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 = "0.9.9";
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@0.9.9/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 = "0.9.9";
L47: const BASE = (process.env.OWLMEM_URL || "https://owlmem.com").replace(/\/$/, "");
L48: 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@0.9.9/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 = "0.9.9";
L47: const BASE = (process.env.OWLMEM_URL || "https://owlmem.com").replace(/\/$/, "");
L48: 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@0.9.9/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 = "0.9.9";
L47: const BASE = (process.env.OWLMEM_URL || "https://owlmem.com").replace(/\/$/, "");
L48: co
```

### 12. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** owlmem.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/owlmem@0.9.9/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 = "0.9.9";
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@0.9.9/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:** 0.9.9
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-11-03T00:25:57.473Z
- **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:** 140,950 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/owlmem/v/0.9.9>)
- [Homepage](<https://owlmem.com/>)