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Archived MCP Servers See Quadrupled Downloads, Exposing Users to Unpatched Vulnerabilities

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Despite being archived 17 months ago, five Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers—GitHub, PostgreSQL, Slack, Puppeteer, and Brave Search—have seen their downloads quadruple. These deprecated packages continue to be installed and used, with millions of downloads since their archival. A critical SQL injection vulnerability was discovered in the PostgreSQL server package, and while a fix was merged on the same day the server was archived, it was never published to npm, leaving users of the deprecated version exposed. AI

IMPACT Highlights the risks of using unmaintained software dependencies in agent setups, potentially impacting AI system security and reliability.

RANK_REASON The article discusses the continued use and download growth of deprecated software packages, highlighting a security vulnerability in one of them, which falls under software maintenance and security tooling.

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Archived MCP Servers See Quadrupled Downloads, Exposing Users to Unpatched Vulnerabilities

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Srinathprasanna N S ·

    Five MCP servers were archived 17 months ago. Their downloads have quadrupled since.

    <p><em>What your agent reads, part 6. You approve an MCP server once. This series is about what happens after.</em></p> <p>On 29 May 2025, the Model Context Protocol project archived 14 of its reference servers. The commit is titled "Archive unmaintained servers". Five of them, G…

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