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    {
      "Title": "[security][LOW] guard cleanup compares sanitized installed names vs raw pin keys (prune mismatch)",
      "Excerpt": "## Severity: LOW\n\n## Location\n`src/guard/cli.ts:263,270-271` (`cleanup`)\n\n## Summary\n`cleanup` builds the installed-server set by pushing names through `sanitize()` (strips control chars, truncates to 256), but compares them against **raw** pin keys when deciding which pins are orphans:\n\n```ts\nfor (const s of c.servers) installedServerNames.add(sanitize(s.name)); // sanitized\n...\nfor (const serverName of Object.keys(pins.servers))\n  if (!installedServerNames.has(serverName)) orphanPinned.push(se",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/getmcpm/cli/issues/28",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-01T13:30:37.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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      "Title": "[security][LOW] guard disable reconstructs original command from unauthenticated wrapped args",
      "Excerpt": "## Severity: LOW\n\n## Location\n`src/guard/wrap.ts:146-170` (`unwrapEntry`), `src/guard/orchestrator.ts:233,260`\n\n## Summary\n`mcpm guard disable` reconstructs the original server command by scanning the wrapped args for the `--server-name <name> --` marker and treating whatever follows as the original `command`/`args`. The marker is not authenticated, so a doctored wrapped entry (or a buggy manual edit) can steer `unwrapEntry` into writing an arbitrary `command` into the client config. Lower sever",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/getmcpm/cli/issues/29",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-01T13:30:43.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 0,
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    {
      "Title": "[security][LOW] guard pattern engine has no per-match regex timeout / leaf-length cap",
      "Excerpt": "## Severity: LOW\n\n## Location\n`src/guard/patterns.ts:119-160` (`normalizeForMatch`, `inspectAgainstSignatures`)\n\n## Summary\nThe pattern engine matches attacker-controlled leaves up to `MAX_LEAF_BYTES` (1 MB) synchronously on the relay hot path, with no per-match wall-clock budget.\n\n**Note:** the *currently shipped* signatures are **not** vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking — I benchmarked them (1k → 0.13 ms, 50k → 0.13 ms, 200k → 0.58 ms; linear), because the optional alternation groups are ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/getmcpm/cli/issues/27",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-01T13:30:30.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
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    {
      "Title": "[security][LOW] Config writes follow symlinks (.tmp/.bak/config) — add O_NOFOLLOW",
      "Excerpt": "## Severity: LOW\n\n## Location\n`src/config/adapters/base.ts:55-76` (`writeAtomic`)\n\n## Summary\n`writeAtomic` writes `${configPath}.tmp` and `${configPath}.bak` with plain `writeFile`, which follows existing symlinks. On a shared/multi-user machine (or via another MCP server with filesystem write access), an attacker can pre-create `<config>.bak` or `<config>.tmp` as a symlink to a sensitive file (e.g. a shell rc file) so mcpm's write lands on the symlink target. The final `rename` of `.tmp` is co",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/getmcpm/cli/issues/26",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-01T13:30:22.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
      "Rank": "top",
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    {
      "Title": "[security][LOW] Config backup (.bak) stores re-serialized JSON and is overwritten on every write",
      "Excerpt": "## Severity: LOW\n\n## Location\n`src/config/adapters/base.ts:63-68`\n\n## Summary\nThe `.bak` written before each config mutation is a re-serialized copy of the **parsed** object (`JSON.stringify(previousContent)`), not the original file bytes — so formatting, key order, and any JSONC/comments are lost. It is also overwritten on **every** write, so after two mcpm operations the user's original pre-mcpm config state is gone.\n\n## Recommended fix\nCopy the raw original file bytes, and write the backup on",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/getmcpm/cli/issues/25",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-01T13:30:14.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
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    {
      "Title": "[security][MEDIUM] Trust gate blind to medium severities; normaliseSeverity fails open; minTrustScore:0 overridable",
      "Excerpt": "## Severity: MEDIUM\n\n## Location\n`src/commands/publish/check.ts:49-55` (`assertTrustGate`), `src/scanner/trust-score.ts:133-159`, `src/scanner/tier2.ts:97` (`normaliseSeverity`), `src/server/tools.ts:124` + `src/server/handlers.ts:129-150`\n\n## Summary\nThree related gaps let low-quality/abusive servers slip through:\n\n1. **Medium blind spot.** The publish gate and the score's cap-to-0 rule key only on `critical`/`high`. Every `detectExfilArgs` finding is `medium` (e.g. exfil-shaped args `url`/`end",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/getmcpm/cli/issues/24",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-01T13:30:09.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
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    {
      "Title": "[security][MEDIUM] Config adapters: prototype-pollution gap on server names; import runs no trust scan",
      "Excerpt": "## Severity: MEDIUM\n\n## Location\n`src/config/adapters/base.ts` (read/addServer/removeServer/setServerDisabled), `src/commands/import.ts`\n\n## Summary\nServer names read from untrusted IDE configs and via `mcpm import` are never validated against `__proto__` / `constructor` / `prototype`, and the server maps are plain objects rather than null-prototype. Object-literal assignment (`{ [name]: ... }`) does not pollute `Object.prototype` directly, but index reads/destructures keyed on `__proto__` (`exi",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/getmcpm/cli/issues/23",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-01T13:30:00.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
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    {
      "Title": "[security][MEDIUM] mcpm_up MCP tool: documented guards are dead code; auto-confirms install/removal if revived",
      "Excerpt": "## Severity: MEDIUM\n\n## Location\n`src/server/index.ts` (registration absent), `src/server/handlers.ts:375-441` (`handleMcpUp`), `src/server/tools.ts:101-150` (`UpInput`, TOOL_DEFINITIONS entry)\n\n## Summary\n`CLAUDE.md` V1.3 claims `[x] mcpm_up MCP server tool (destructiveHint: true)` and `[x] Path traversal protection on mcpm_up MCP tool input`. Both are effectively false at runtime:\n\n- The tool is **never registered** in `src/server/index.ts` (only 8 tools are wired; registration ends at `mcpm_s",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/getmcpm/cli/issues/22",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-01T13:29:53.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
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      "Title": "[security][MEDIUM] Registry client follows redirects (SSRF) and reads unbounded response bodies",
      "Excerpt": "## Severity: MEDIUM\n\n## Location\n`src/registry/client.ts:145-173` (`get`), `src/registry/publish-client.ts:23-45`, `src/registry/pagination.ts`\n\n## Summary\nTwo issues in the shared HTTP path:\n\n1. **SSRF / redirect following.** `baseUrl` is fully overridable and `fetch` is called without `redirect: \"manual\"`, so the default redirect-follow behavior lets a registry response (or an attacker-controlled `baseUrl`) 30x-redirect the client to internal hosts (`http://169.254.169.254/...`, `http://localh",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/getmcpm/cli/issues/21",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-01T13:29:38.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
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    {
      "Title": "[security][MEDIUM] guard relay forwards full process.env to wrapped server; buildSafeEnv is dead code",
      "Excerpt": "## Severity: MEDIUM\n\n## Location\n`src/guard/run-inner.ts:160-176`, `src/guard/relay.ts:79-85,131`\n\n## Summary\n`startRelay` defaults its child env to `buildSafeEnv()` — an allowlist designed (per its own doc comment) to avoid \"leaking unrelated parent secrets (`OPENAI_API_KEY`, `AWS_*`, `GITHUB_TOKEN`) to a server we are wrapping precisely because we don't fully trust it.\" But the production caller always supplies `env`:\n\n```ts\n// run-inner.ts\nchildEnv = await resolveEnvPlaceholders(process.env);",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/getmcpm/cli/issues/20",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-01T13:29:30.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
      "Rank": "recent",
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    {
      "Title": "[security][MEDIUM] Integrity sidecars are unkeyed SHA-256 — no protection vs same-user/postinstall tampering",
      "Excerpt": "## Severity: MEDIUM\n\n## Location\n`src/guard/pins.ts` (`fileSha`, `*.integrity` read/write), `src/guard/policy.ts` (same pattern for `guard-policy.yaml.integrity`)\n\n## Summary\nThe `.integrity` sidecars are a plain `sha256:<hex>` of the file, stored next to the file with the same (writable) permissions. There is **no key**, so any process that can modify `pins.json` / `guard-policy.yaml` can recompute and rewrite the sidecar to match. There is no asymmetry between the attacker and the legitimate w",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/getmcpm/cli/issues/19",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-01T13:29:21.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
      "Rank": "recent",
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    {
      "Title": "[security][HIGH] health-check leaks env secrets to untrusted server (denylist instead of allowlist)",
      "Excerpt": "## Severity: HIGH\n\n## Location\n`src/scanner/health-check.ts:27-95` (`buildHealthCheckEnv`), spawn at `:188`\n\n## Summary\nThe post-install health check spawns the **freshly-installed, untrusted** MCP server and passes it an environment built by copying **all** of `process.env` and subtracting a hardcoded denylist (`SENSITIVE_ENV_NAMES` / `SENSITIVE_ENV_PREFIXES`). CLAUDE.md's 2026-05-17 decision states env should be **allowlisted, not process.env passthrough**; this is the inverse, and the denylis",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/getmcpm/cli/issues/18",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-01T13:29:12.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
      "Rank": "recent",
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    {
      "Title": "[security][HIGH] mcpm publish sends GitHub token to arbitrary --registry host (token exfiltration)",
      "Excerpt": "## Severity: HIGH\n\n## Location\n`src/registry/publish-client.ts:20-31`, `src/commands/publish/submit.ts:39`\n\n```ts\nconst url = `${registryUrl}/v0.1/servers`;\nheaders: { Authorization: `Bearer ${token}` }   // token = GITHUB_TOKEN / MCPM_TOKEN\n```\n\n## Summary\n`mcpm publish --registry <url>` flows unvalidated into the `Authorization: Bearer` header. There is no scheme check, no host allowlist, and the default `fetch` follows redirects. The token source is correctly env-only (never a CLI flag), but ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/getmcpm/cli/issues/17",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-01T13:29:02.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 0,
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    {
      "Title": "[security][HIGH] guard detection bypass: signatures don't scan structuredContent, error, or inputSchema",
      "Excerpt": "## Severity: HIGH\n\n## Location\n`src/guard/patterns.ts:56-94` (`targetSubtree`), `src/guard/signatures.ts`\n\n## Summary\nThe pattern engine narrows each signature target to a single JSON path, leaving standard MCP fields completely unscanned. A malicious server evades the headline OWASP signatures by relocating its payload:\n\n- **`tool_response`** walks only `result.content` (`patterns.ts:60`). Injection placed in `result.structuredContent` (a standard MCP result field) or in a JSON-RPC `error` obje",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/getmcpm/cli/issues/16",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-01T13:28:52.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
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    {
      "Title": "[security][HIGH] Encrypted secret store uses a non-secret encryption key (hostname + username)",
      "Excerpt": "## Severity: HIGH\n\n## Location\n`src/store/keychain.ts:26-28`\n\n```ts\nconst MACHINE_PASSPHRASE = new TextEncoder().encode(\n  `mcpm:${os.hostname()}:${os.userInfo().username}`\n);\n```\n\n## Summary\nThe AES-GCM key protecting `~/.mcpm/secrets.enc.json` is derived (PBKDF2, 600k iterations, per-value salt) from **hostname + username** only. Neither value is secret — both are trivially recoverable by anyone who obtains the encrypted file (process listings, file paths, shell history, backups, cloud sync, o",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/getmcpm/cli/issues/15",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-01T13:28:34.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
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