Openocd — 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"
},
"target": {
"id": "openocd-mcp",
"source": {
"kind": "package",
"origin": "openocd-mcp"
},
"server": {
"name": "openocd-mcp"
}
},
"grade": "B",
"score": {
"score": 89,
"threatScore": 100,
"grade": "B",
"band": "B",
"categorySubtotals": {
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"exfiltration": 0,
"permissions": 0,
"supply-chain": 0,
"network": 0,
"hygiene": 0
},
"vector": [
{
"kind": "client",
"term": "capability-exposure",
"level": "critical",
"label": "capability blast radius (critical) — client exposure if the model is manipulated",
"appliedPenalty": 10
},
{
"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",
"appliedPenalty": 0
}
],
"gatesFired": [],
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},
"capability": {
"level": "critical",
"reasons": [
"ingests untrusted external content (a prompt-injection entry point)",
"reads sensitive or local data",
"has a read → egress path (a data-exfiltration surface)",
"can execute shell commands or code",
"untrusted-input, sensitive-source and egress co-exist across tools (toxic-flow surface)",
"untrusted input can reach code execution"
],
"tags": [
"untrusted-input",
"sensitive-source",
"code-exec"
]
},
"coverage": {
"level": "source",
"inputs": {
"toolSurface": true,
"implementationSource": true,
"packageMetadata": true,
"liveTransport": false
},
"caveats": [
"Tools were statically extracted from the published source (39 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-FLOW-002",
"title": "Completed toxic-flow trifecta across tools",
"category": "exfiltration",
"severity": "critical",
"confidence": "strong",
"description": "This server (without client built-ins) exposes a complete data-exfiltration chain: install_openocd → read_registers → run_command. Untrusted input is ingested, private data is read, and it can be sent to an external sink via the agent composing the tools (→). Static analysis proves the primitive exists, not that a specific run will occur.",
"remediation": "Remove one leg of the trifecta: isolate untrusted-input tools from secret-reading tools and from egress tools, or require human approval between them.",
"location": {
"kind": "flow",
"name": "install_openocd → read_registers → run_command"
},
"owasp": "LLM02:2025 Sensitive Information Disclosure",
"references": [],
"data": {
"untrusted": [
"install_openocd"
],
"sources": [
"read_registers"
],
"sinks": [
"run_command"
],
"path": [
"install_openocd",
"read_registers",
"run_command"
],
"edges": [
{
"from": "install_openocd",
"to": "read_registers",
"kind": "agent-mediated"
},
{
"from": "read_registers",
"to": "run_command",
"kind": "agent-mediated"
}
],
"wired": false
}
},
{
"ruleId": "MTC-CAP-001",
"title": "Tool \"run_command\" exposes command/code execution",
"category": "permissions",
"severity": "high",
"confidence": "strong",
"description": "Tool \"run_command\" appears to run shell commands or evaluate code (keyword \"run_command\" in tool name). Arbitrary execution driven by model input is one of the most dangerous MCP capabilities; combined with any untrusted input it becomes RCE.",
"remediation": "Sandbox execution, allowlist commands/arguments, and never pass model output to a shell unescaped.",
"location": {
"kind": "tool",
"name": "run_command"
},
"owasp": "LLM05:2025 Improper Output Handling",
"data": {
"tags": [
"code-exec"
]
}
},
{
"ruleId": "MTC-SRC-002",
"title": "Shell/command execution in server code (openocd_mcp/launcher.py)",
"category": "permissions",
"severity": "high",
"confidence": "strong",
"description": "In the server's implementation (`openocd_mcp/launcher.py:109`): 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": {
"kind": "server",
"name": "openocd_mcp/launcher.py"
},
"evidence": "self._proc = subprocess.Popen( cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, s",
"owasp": "LLM05:2025 Improper Output Handling",
"data": {
"rule": "MTC-SRC-002",
"file": "openocd_mcp/launcher.py",
"line": 109,
"nonRuntime": false
}
},
{
"ruleId": "MTC-CAP-005",
"title": "Mutating tool \"run_command\" declares no destructiveHint",
"category": "hygiene",
"severity": "low",
"confidence": "heuristic",
"description": "Tool \"run_command\" can mutate/egress but declares no destructiveHint. Clients that don't default to spec-safe behavior may not prompt before running it.",
"remediation": "Declare accurate annotations, and gate destructive tools on user confirmation regardless.",
"location": {
"kind": "tool",
"name": "run_command"
},
"data": {
"tags": [
"code-exec"
]
}
}
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{
"id": "flow-1",
"severity": "critical",
"confidence": "strong",
"untrustedInput": [
"install_openocd"
],
"sensitiveSource": [
"read_registers"
],
"externalSink": [
"run_command"
],
"selfContained": false,
"path": [
"install_openocd",
"read_registers",
"run_command"
],
"pathWired": false,
"description": "A cross-tool exfiltration chain exists: install_openocd → read_registers → run_command."
}
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"tool": "configure",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "show_config",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "set_permissions",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "install_openocd",
"tags": [
"untrusted-input"
],
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"keyword \"download\""
]
}
},
{
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},
{
"tool": "stop_openocd",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "status",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
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{
"tool": "connect",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "halt",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "resume",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "reset",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "step",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "read_registers",
"tags": [
"sensitive-source"
],
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"keyword \"dump\""
]
}
},
{
"tool": "read_register",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "write_register",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "read_memory",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "write_memory",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "read_peripheral",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "add_breakpoint",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "remove_breakpoint",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "add_watchpoint",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "remove_watchpoint",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "list_breakpoints",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "remove_all_breakpoints",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "add_conditional_breakpoint",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "remove_conditional_breakpoint",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "flash_write",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "flash_info",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "flash_erase_sector",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "load_elf",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "read_variable",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "write_variable",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "list_variables",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "watch_variables",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "load_svd",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "read_peripheral_register",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "write_peripheral_register",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "list_peripheral_registers",
"tags": [],
"reasons": {}
},
{
"tool": "run_command",
"tags": [
"code-exec"
],
"reasons": {
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"keyword \"run_command\" in tool name"
]
}
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"surfaceDigest": "09c25da133b64532d19ba835cc8af5e188cf79ea789780beb2fec45d418855fe",
"stats": {
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"prompts": 0,
"resources": 0,
"findingsBySeverity": {
"critical": 1,
"high": 2,
"medium": 0,
"low": 1,
"info": 0
}
}
}