Crossref — the complete, unedited output of the deterministic mcptrustchecker engine v1.13.0, scanned . Every finding, capability tag and score component below is exactly what the engine produced — no AI, no post-processing.
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"methodologyVersion": "mcptrustchecker-1.13"
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"target": {
"id": "crossref-mcp",
"source": {
"kind": "package",
"origin": "crossref-mcp"
},
"server": {
"name": "crossref-mcp"
}
},
"grade": "A",
"score": {
"score": 96,
"threatScore": 100,
"grade": "A",
"band": "A",
"categorySubtotals": {
"injection": 0,
"exfiltration": 0,
"permissions": 0,
"supply-chain": 0,
"network": 0,
"hygiene": 0
},
"vector": [
{
"kind": "client",
"term": "capability-exposure",
"level": "moderate",
"label": "capability blast radius (moderate) — client exposure if the model is manipulated",
"appliedPenalty": 3
},
{
"kind": "client",
"term": "verification-discount",
"level": "repo",
"label": "publisher verification (public source) — no provenance, but the source is public and inspectable",
"appliedPenalty": 1
},
{
"kind": "client",
"term": "coverage-honesty",
"level": "source",
"label": "inspection depth (source) — how much of the target the scan could see",
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}
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"gatesFired": [],
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"level": "moderate",
"reasons": [
"ingests untrusted external content (a prompt-injection entry point)"
],
"tags": [
"untrusted-input"
]
},
"coverage": {
"level": "source",
"inputs": {
"toolSurface": true,
"implementationSource": true,
"packageMetadata": true,
"liveTransport": false
},
"caveats": [
"Tools were statically extracted from the published source (17 recovered), not enumerated from a running server. Tool-poisoning, Unicode-smuggling, capability and toxic-flow analysis ran on this inferred surface, but a mis-parsed registration could be missed or mis-attributed, so tool-derived findings are capped below “confirmed”. To grade the real runtime surface, scan the running server: --command \"npx -y <package>\"."
]
},
"findings": [
{
"ruleId": "MTC-SRC-001",
"title": "Dynamic code execution in packaging/dev tooling (tests/test_ratelimit_redis.py)",
"category": "permissions",
"severity": "low",
"confidence": "heuristic",
"description": "In a packaging/dev/install script (shipped, but not the server runtime) (`tests/test_ratelimit_redis.py:50`): Evaluating strings as code is the most direct RCE primitive; if any tool input reaches it, the server executes attacker-chosen code. This is read from the code itself — not from the tool description — so a poisoned server cannot hide it behind honest-looking metadata.",
"remediation": "Review this call path: confirm it never receives unsanitized tool input, constrain it, or remove it. Treat a server whose code reaches these sinks as high-capability regardless of what its tools claim.",
"location": {
"kind": "server",
"name": "tests/test_ratelimit_redis.py"
},
"evidence": "edis: async def eval(self, *a, **k): raise RuntimeError(\"redis down\") bucket = RedisTokenBucket",
"owasp": "LLM05:2025 Improper Output Handling",
"data": {
"rule": "MTC-SRC-001",
"file": "tests/test_ratelimit_redis.py",
"line": 50,
"nonRuntime": true
}
}
],
"toxicFlows": [],
"capabilities": [
{
"tool": "search_funders",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "get_funder",
"tags": [
"untrusted-input"
],
"reasons": {
"untrusted-input": [
"keyword \"fetch\""
]
}
},
{
"tool": "get_funder_works",
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},
{
"tool": "search_journals",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "get_journal",
"tags": [
"untrusted-input"
],
"reasons": {
"untrusted-input": [
"keyword \"fetch\""
]
}
},
{
"tool": "get_journal_works",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "search_members",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "get_member",
"tags": [
"untrusted-input"
],
"reasons": {
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"keyword \"fetch\""
]
}
},
{
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},
{
"tool": "list_types",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "get_type",
"tags": [
"untrusted-input"
],
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"keyword \"fetch\""
]
}
},
{
"tool": "list_licenses",
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},
{
"tool": "get_prefix",
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},
{
"tool": "search_works",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "get_work",
"tags": [
"untrusted-input"
],
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"keyword \"fetch\""
]
}
},
{
"tool": "get_work_references",
"tags": [],
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{
"tool": "get_work_quality",
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}
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"stats": {
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"resources": 0,
"findingsBySeverity": {
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"high": 0,
"medium": 0,
"low": 1,
"info": 0
}
}
}