Kicad — 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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"threatScore": 100,
"grade": "A",
"band": "A",
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"network": 0,
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"kind": "client",
"term": "capability-exposure",
"level": "high",
"label": "capability blast radius (high) — client exposure if the model is manipulated",
"appliedPenalty": 6
},
{
"kind": "client",
"term": "verification-discount",
"level": "repo",
"label": "publisher verification (public source) — no provenance, but the source is public and inspectable",
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{
"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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"inputs": {
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"implementationSource": true,
"packageMetadata": true,
"liveTransport": false
},
"caveats": [
"Tools were statically extracted from the published source (54 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>\"."
]
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"title": "Shell/command execution in server code (bin/kicad-mcp.js)",
"category": "permissions",
"severity": "high",
"confidence": "strong",
"description": "In the server's implementation (`bin/kicad-mcp.js:8`): Spawning a shell/process is command-execution capability; with unsanitized tool input it is command injection / RCE. 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": {
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"name": "bin/kicad-mcp.js"
},
"evidence": "nSync } = require(\"node:child_process\"); const packageRoot = path.resolve(__dirname, \"..\"); const pluginDir = path.join",
"owasp": "LLM05:2025 Improper Output Handling",
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"file": "bin/kicad-mcp.js",
"line": 8,
"nonRuntime": false
}
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"title": "Shell/command execution in server code (kicad-ai-plugin/plugin.py)",
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"confidence": "strong",
"description": "In the server's implementation (`kicad-ai-plugin/plugin.py:888`): Spawning a shell/process is command-execution capability; with unsanitized tool input it is command injection / RCE. 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": {
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"name": "kicad-ai-plugin/plugin.py"
},
"evidence": ": process = subprocess.Popen( [_python_executable(), str(SERVER_PATH)], cwd=",
"owasp": "LLM05:2025 Improper Output Handling",
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"file": "kicad-ai-plugin/plugin.py",
"line": 888,
"nonRuntime": false
}
},
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"ruleId": "MTC-SRC-002",
"title": "Shell/command execution in server code (kicad-ai-plugin/tools/common.py)",
"category": "permissions",
"severity": "high",
"confidence": "strong",
"description": "In the server's implementation (`kicad-ai-plugin/tools/common.py:96`): Spawning a shell/process is command-execution capability; with unsanitized tool input it is command injection / RCE. 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.",
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"evidence": "Result: completed = subprocess.run( list(command), text=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,",
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"title": "Shell/command execution in server code (kicad-ai-plugin/tools/drc.py)",
"category": "permissions",
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"confidence": "strong",
"description": "In the server's implementation (`kicad-ai-plugin/tools/drc.py:168`): Spawning a shell/process is command-execution capability; with unsanitized tool input it is command injection / RCE. 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.",
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"evidence": "-> str: completed = subprocess.run( [kicad_cli, \"pcb\", \"drc\", \"--help\"], text=True, stdout=s",
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"title": "Shell/command execution in server code (kicad-ai-plugin/tools/gerber.py)",
"category": "permissions",
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"confidence": "strong",
"description": "In the server's implementation (`kicad-ai-plugin/tools/gerber.py:16`): Spawning a shell/process is command-execution capability; with unsanitized tool input it is command injection / RCE. This is read from the code itself — not from the tool description — so a poisoned server cannot hide it behind honest-looking metadata.",
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