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mcpm MCP Server

MCP package manager with trust scoring, a runtime guard, and Sigstore provenance verification.

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Published as @getmcpm/cli on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

15 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

[security][LOW] guard cleanup compares sanitized installed names vs raw pin keys (prune mismatch)

Severity: LOW

Location

src/guard/cli.ts:263,270-271 (cleanup)

Summary

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:

for (const s of c.servers) installedServerNames.add(sanitize(s.name)); // sanitized
...
for (const serverName of Object.keys(pins.servers))
  if (!installedServerNames.has(serverName)) orphanPinned.push(se

[Read the thread](https://github.com/getmcpm/cli/issues/28) · 2026-06-01 · closed · 1 comment

### [security][LOW] guard disable reconstructs original command from unauthenticated wrapped args

## Severity: LOW

## Location
`src/guard/wrap.ts:146-170` (`unwrapEntry`), `src/guard/orchestrator.ts:233,260`

## Summary
`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

[Read the thread](https://github.com/getmcpm/cli/issues/29) · 2026-06-01 · closed · 0 comments

### [security][LOW] guard pattern engine has no per-match regex timeout / leaf-length cap

## Severity: LOW

## Location
`src/guard/patterns.ts:119-160` (`normalizeForMatch`, `inspectAgainstSignatures`)

## Summary
The 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.

**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 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/getmcpm/cli/issues/27) · 2026-06-01 · closed · 0 comments

### [security][LOW] Config writes follow symlinks (.tmp/.bak/config) — add O_NOFOLLOW

## Severity: LOW

## Location
`src/config/adapters/base.ts:55-76` (`writeAtomic`)

## Summary
`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

[Read the thread](https://github.com/getmcpm/cli/issues/26) · 2026-06-01 · closed · 0 comments

### [security][LOW] Config backup (.bak) stores re-serialized JSON and is overwritten on every write

## Severity: LOW

## Location
`src/config/adapters/base.ts:63-68`

## Summary
The `.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.

## Recommended fix
Copy the raw original file bytes, and write the backup on

[Read the thread](https://github.com/getmcpm/cli/issues/25) · 2026-06-01 · closed · 0 comments

### Most recent

### [security][MEDIUM] Registry client follows redirects (SSRF) and reads unbounded response bodies

## Severity: MEDIUM

## Location
`src/registry/client.ts:145-173` (`get`), `src/registry/publish-client.ts:23-45`, `src/registry/pagination.ts`

## Summary
Two issues in the shared HTTP path:

1. **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

[Read the thread](https://github.com/getmcpm/cli/issues/21) · 2026-06-01 · closed · 0 comments

### [security][MEDIUM] guard relay forwards full process.env to wrapped server; buildSafeEnv is dead code

## Severity: MEDIUM

## Location
`src/guard/run-inner.ts:160-176`, `src/guard/relay.ts:79-85,131`

## Summary
`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`:

```ts
// run-inner.ts
childEnv = await resolveEnvPlaceholders(process.env);

[Read the thread](https://github.com/getmcpm/cli/issues/20) · 2026-06-01 · closed · 0 comments

### [security][MEDIUM] Integrity sidecars are unkeyed SHA-256 — no protection vs same-user/postinstall tampering

## Severity: MEDIUM

## Location
`src/guard/pins.ts` (`fileSha`, `*.integrity` read/write), `src/guard/policy.ts` (same pattern for `guard-policy.yaml.integrity`)

## Summary
The `.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

[Read the thread](https://github.com/getmcpm/cli/issues/19) · 2026-06-01 · closed · 0 comments

### [security][HIGH] health-check leaks env secrets to untrusted server (denylist instead of allowlist)

## Severity: HIGH

## Location
`src/scanner/health-check.ts:27-95` (`buildHealthCheckEnv`), spawn at `:188`

## Summary
The 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

[Read the thread](https://github.com/getmcpm/cli/issues/18) · 2026-06-01 · closed · 0 comments

### [security][HIGH] mcpm publish sends GitHub token to arbitrary --registry host (token exfiltration)

## Severity: HIGH

## Location
`src/registry/publish-client.ts:20-31`, `src/commands/publish/submit.ts:39`

```ts
const url = `${registryUrl}/v0.1/servers`;
headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${token}` }   // token = GITHUB_TOKEN / MCPM_TOKEN

Summary

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

Read the thread · 2026-06-01 · closed · 0 comments

[security][HIGH] guard detection bypass: signatures don't scan structuredContent, error, or inputSchema

Severity: HIGH

Location

src/guard/patterns.ts:56-94 (targetSubtree), src/guard/signatures.ts

Summary

The 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:

  • 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

Read the thread · 2026-06-01 · closed · 0 comments

[security][HIGH] Encrypted secret store uses a non-secret encryption key (hostname + username)

Severity: HIGH

Location

src/store/keychain.ts:26-28

const MACHINE_PASSPHRASE = new TextEncoder().encode(
  `mcpm:${os.hostname()}:${os.userInfo().username}`
);

Summary

The 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

Read the thread · 2026-06-01 · closed · 0 comments

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