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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"label": "inspection depth (source) — how much of the target the scan could see",
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"caveats": [
"Tools were statically extracted from the published source (109 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 (mcp_server_kicad/_freerouting.py)",
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"description": "In the server's implementation (`mcp_server_kicad/_freerouting.py:84`): 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": "try: result = subprocess.run( [\"java\", \"-version\"], capture_output=True, t",
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"title": "Shell/command execution in server code (mcp_server_kicad/_shared.py)",
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"description": "In the server's implementation (`mcp_server_kicad/_shared.py:833`): 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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"evidence": "try: return subprocess.run( [executable] + args, capture_output=True, te",
"owasp": "LLM05:2025 Improper Output Handling",
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"title": "Shell/command execution in packaging/dev tooling (tests/conftest.py)",
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"description": "In a packaging/dev/install script (shipped, but not the server runtime) (`tests/conftest.py:485`): 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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"evidence": "f): self.proc = subprocess.Popen( self.argv, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=s",
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