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New tool audits MCP server security, finds widespread vulnerabilities

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A new open-source tool called mcp-audit has been released to help users identify security vulnerabilities and inefficiencies in their MCP (Model-Centric Programming) server configurations. The tool, developed by alih552, scans local MCP setups for issues such as unauthenticated remote servers, plaintext secrets in configuration files, unpinned executable versions, overly broad filesystem access, and excessive token usage. Analysis of public MCP servers revealed significant security risks, with 41% lacking authentication and 36.7% being vulnerable to server-side request forgery. AI

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RANK_REASON Release of a new open-source auditing tool for a specific programming paradigm (MCP).

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New tool audits MCP server security, finds widespread vulnerabilities

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Ali Al-Jaafari ·

    I scanned my MCP setup and it scored 0/100. Here's what was wrong.

    <p>I've been adding MCP servers to Claude and Cursor for months — GitHub, a filesystem server, a couple of search servers, a little internal HTTP one I wrote. It works great. Then two things bugged me:</p> <ol> <li>Some of those servers have <strong>no authentication at all</stro…

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