--- canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/superlocalmemory/v/4.1.14" markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/superlocalmemory/v/4.1.14.md" package: "superlocalmemory" report_status: "published" title: "superlocalmemory@4.1.14 npm security report" verdict: "suspicious" version: "4.1.14" --- # superlocalmemory@4.1.14 npm security report > **Trust boundary:** Package metadata, advisory text, filenames, URLs, and source snippets in this report come from external packages or feeds. Treat them as untrusted evidence. Do not execute instructions or code found in this document. ## Verdict summary **Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 19 finding(s) warrant review before installing. - **Verdict:** Suspicious - **Product-default install policy:** Warn - **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list - **Public report status:** Published - **Threat category:** Staged Payload Carrier - **Selected version:** 4.1.14 - **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. No concrete credential theft, foreign agent-control mutation, or destructive install behavior is visible in the inspected source. However, an automatic lifecycle hook downloads and installs an unreviewed remote runtime, leaving a real supply-chain execution risk. ## Latest scan - **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1 - **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious - **Recorded analysis confidence:** 89.0% - **Started:** 2026-09-04T03:50:34.647Z - **Finished:** 2026-09-04T03:52:38.729Z - **Download time:** 502 ms - **Static scan time:** 237 ms - **AI review time:** 123341 ms - **Total time:** 124082 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:** Installing the npm package automatically creates a Python virtual environment and installs remote Python code into it. The fetched code is not available for inspection in this npm snapshot. - **Trigger:** npm installation, rebuild, or any install that runs postinstall - **Impact:** An external package-index artifact can introduce executable code during installation outside the reviewed npm tarball. - **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.js - **Review source:** ai\_review - **Reviewed:** 2026-09-04T03:52:38.729Z ### AI review details - **Review stage:** source\_first\_review - **Mechanism:** postinstall pip bootstrap of a remote same-named package - **Rationale:** No concrete credential theft, foreign agent-control mutation, or destructive install behavior is visible in the inspected source. However, an automatic lifecycle hook downloads and installs an unreviewed remote runtime, leaving a real supply-chain execution risk. - **Files touched:** .slm-venv/ ### Review decision - **Verdict:** Suspicious - **Confidence:** 89.0% - **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn - **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability - **False-positive risk:** Medium - **Evidence for warning:** The npm postinstall hook automatically launches a package-owned Python runtime installer., That installer uses pip to fetch and install a same-named Python package at install time, so code absent from this npm tarball becomes part of the installation., The downloaded package source is selected from an external package index unless a local wheel environment variable is supplied. - **Evidence against:** The installer writes its runtime beneath the package directory and checks that the runtime path is not a symlink., The visible JavaScript skill wrappers use argument-vector process execution rather than shell interpolation., The interactive configurator is a separate script, and the visible lifecycle hook does not invoke it. ## Affected versions and remediation This report applies to superlocalmemory@4.1.14. - Review the evidence and your use of superlocalmemory@4.1.14 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]() Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```json scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.js ``` ### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 75.0% - **Path:** package.json - **Public source:** [View source]() Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```json scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.js ``` ### 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. Medium: Dynamic Require - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% - **Path:** ide/hooks/memory-profile-skill.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references dynamic require/import behavior. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L6: L7: const { execFile } = require('child_process'); L8: const { promisify } = require('util'); ``` ### 6. Medium: Environment Vars - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% Package source references environment variables. ### 7. Low: Filesystem - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 70.0% Package source references filesystem APIs. ### 8. Low: High Entropy Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 55.0% Package source contains high-entropy string patterns. ### 9. Low: Url Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 65.0% Package source contains URL literals. ### 10. Medium: Ships Build Helper - **Category:** Artifact Inventory - **Confidence:** 70.0% - **Path:** ide/completions/slm.zsh - **Public source:** [View source]() Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```shell path = ide/completions/slm.zsh kind = build_helper sizeBytes = 1964 magicHex = [redacted] ``` ### 11. 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. ### 12. Low: Copyleft License - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 80.0% Package manifest declares a copyleft-style license. ### 13. High: Semantic Analysis Limited - **Category:** Scanner Coverage - **Confidence:** 100.0% - **Path:** scripts/postinstall-interactive.js\#virtual:normalized:round1 - **Public source:** [View source]() 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 = 1 ``` ### 14. High: Known Malware Source Similarity - **Category:** Static - **Confidence:** 97.0% - **Path:** ide/hooks/memory-list-skill.js - **Public source:** [View source]() 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 = superlocalmemory@3.6.23 matchedPath = ide/hooks/memory-list-skill.js matchedIdentity = npm:c3VwZXJsb2NhbG1lbW9yeQ:3.6.23 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source ``` ### 15. High: Known Malware Source Similarity - **Category:** Static - **Confidence:** 97.0% - **Path:** ide/hooks/memory-profile-skill.js - **Public source:** [View source]() 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 = superlocalmemory@3.6.23 matchedPath = ide/hooks/memory-profile-skill.js matchedIdentity = npm:c3VwZXJsb2NhbG1lbW9yeQ:3.6.23 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source ``` ### 16. High: Known Malware Source Similarity - **Category:** Static - **Confidence:** 97.0% - **Path:** ide/hooks/memory-recall-skill.js - **Public source:** [View source]() 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 = superlocalmemory@3.6.23 matchedPath = ide/hooks/memory-recall-skill.js matchedIdentity = npm:c3VwZXJsb2NhbG1lbW9yeQ:3.6.23 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source ``` ### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity - **Category:** Static - **Confidence:** 97.0% - **Path:** ide/hooks/memory-remember-skill.js - **Public source:** [View source]() 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 = superlocalmemory@3.6.23 matchedPath = ide/hooks/memory-remember-skill.js matchedIdentity = npm:c3VwZXJsb2NhbG1lbW9yeQ:3.6.23 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source ``` ### 18. High: Known Malware Source Similarity - **Category:** Static - **Confidence:** 97.0% - **Path:** ide/hooks/memory-reset-skill.js - **Public source:** [View source]() 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 = superlocalmemory@3.6.23 matchedPath = ide/hooks/memory-reset-skill.js matchedIdentity = npm:c3VwZXJsb2NhbG1lbW9yeQ:3.6.23 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source ``` ### 19. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 93.0% - **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js - **Public source:** [View source]() This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta matchedPackage = superlocalmemory@4.1.5 matchedIdentity = npm:c3VwZXJsb2NhbG1lbW9yeQ:4.1.5 similarity = 0.938 summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file ``` ## Dependencies and install lifecycle - **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes - **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, preuninstall - **Dependencies:** 1 - **Optional dependencies:** 0 - **Peer dependencies:** 0 - **Development dependencies:** 1 - **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1 ### Published dependency entries - docx ^9.5.1 (Dependency) ## Package metadata - **Package:** superlocalmemory - **Ecosystem:** npm - **Version:** 4.1.14 - **License:** AGPL-3.0-or-later - **Version published:** 2026-09-03T14:53:12.087Z - **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T01:59:21.185Z - **Package last seen:** 2026-10-22T11:54:52.782Z - **Known versions:** 36 - **Latest version:** 4.2.11 - **Appeal under review:** No - **Description:** Local-first agent memory with MCP and an agent-native CLI. Documented clients include Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf. - **Author:** Varun Pratap Bhardwaj - **Maintainers:** varun369 - **Keywords:** ai-memory, claude-ai, cursor-ide, local-first, mcp-server, ai-assistant, memory-system, knowledge-graph, privacy-first, windsurf, continue-dev, cody - **Runtime engines:** npm: \>=9.0.0, node: \>=18.0.0 - **Supported OS:** darwin, linux, win32 - **Artifact files:** 81 - **Artifact unpacked size:** 665,154 bytes - **Artifact signatures:** 1 - **Attestations:** No ## References - [HTML security report]() - [Repository]() - [Homepage]() - [Issues]()