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VulnCheck MCP Server

VulnCheck exploit intelligence — CVE research, exploit data, advisories, and threat analysis.

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Published as ghcr.io/vulncheck-oss/mcp:0.2.1 on oci. Runs locally.

Known issues

11 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 8.

Most discussed

[FEATURE] Derive affected products from v4 advisories and clarify v4_search_advisory matching

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Issue / Request Related to a Problem?

Follow-up to #41. CVEs without NVD CPE configurations can only be answered with "no CPE configurations are published", even though v4 advisory records still name the affected software. Using those records has two obstacles: v4_search_advisory matches vendor/product against the exact, case-sensitive CNA-published string (a near miss returns a nonzero total with zero ro

Read the thread · 2026-07-31 · closed · 0 comments

[BUG] search_purls returns incomplete findings for versionless PURLs without flagging them

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What happened?

Version matching does not apply to a PURL that names no version, so findings come back incomplete. Language-ecosystem packages are looked up by exact match on the full PURL string including the version, so a versionless PURL matches nothing at all. OS packages skip the version comparison for any CVE that has no fix available, so a versionless PURL returns those and drops everything else.

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Read the thread · 2026-07-31 · closed · 0 comments

[FEATURE] Add a tool that resolves a CVE to the products it affects

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Issue / Request Related to a Problem?

No tool answers "what software does this CVE affect?" search_cve results carry no CPE configuration data, and the only alternative — fetching the raw NVD document via search_index — returns responses large enough to exceed the client's token limit (see #39) and leaves the client to parse nested CPE configuration trees itself.

Solution

  • Add a `get_cve_affe

Read the thread · 2026-07-31 · closed · 0 comments

search_cve CVE lookups return responses that exceed the MCP client's token limit

Looking up a single CVE with search_cve can return a response large enough to exceed the client's token limit. Instead of an inline answer, the result is written to a file and parsed out-of-band.

The limit parameter drives this. search_cve enforces a minimal default limit of 1 when the caller passes none. A default that low reads as implausible, so callers override it with a higher value of their own. Because each hit aggregates data across many indices, even a modest limit could produces

Read the thread · 2026-07-30 · closed · 0 comments

Strip v prefix when waiting for Docker image

The mcp-registry.yml workflow looks for ghcr.io/vulncheck-oss/mcp:v0.1.0, but the release workflow uses type=semver,pattern={{version}} in the Docker metadata action, which strips the v prefix — publishing the image as ghcr.io/vulncheck-oss/mcp:0.1.0.

The wait loop times out after 5 minutes because the image tag never matches.

Fix

Strip the v prefix when constructing the image name in the wait step, consistent with what the Update server.json version step already does:


[Read the thread](https://github.com/vulncheck-oss/mcp/issues/28) · 2026-06-11 · closed · 0 comments

### Most recent

### Default to STDIO for docker image

Upon testing the docker image I realized that the instructions are not inline with the defaults of the docker image (HTTP), when 99% of clients leveraging the image will be running it locally over STDIO. We should update the default CMD appropriately (which users can still override if they choose to self-host this as an HTTP server).

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vulncheck-oss/mcp/issues/15) · 2026-06-04 · closed · 0 comments

### Add additional clients to install instructions

Currently we just have claude instructions as part of the initial commit, but we should definitely include additional MCP clients, including:

- Cursor
- VS Code
- Gemini CLI
- Codex CLI
- Windsurf
- Cline

This should cover the majority of clients to get started.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vulncheck-oss/mcp/issues/9) · 2026-06-03 · closed · 0 comments

### Address initial dependabot issues

There are 6 issues raised by dependabot, all low-risk dependency updates that I'm going to tackle in bulk.

- https://github.com/vulncheck-oss/mcp/pull/1
- https://github.com/vulncheck-oss/mcp/pull/2
- https://github.com/vulncheck-oss/mcp/pull/3
- https://github.com/vulncheck-oss/mcp/pull/4
- https://github.com/vulncheck-oss/mcp/pull/5
- https://github.com/vulncheck-oss/mcp/pull/6

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vulncheck-oss/mcp/issues/7) · 2026-06-03 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 11 reports Pod holds for VulnCheck](/mcp/vulncheck/issues).

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