Scitex Scholar — the complete, unedited output of the deterministic mcptrustchecker engine v1.8.0, scanned . Every finding, capability tag and score component below is exactly what the engine produced — no AI, no post-processing.
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"server": {
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"grade": "B",
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"score": 89,
"threatScore": 100,
"grade": "B",
"band": "B",
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"level": "critical",
"label": "capability blast radius (critical) — client exposure if the model is manipulated",
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{
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"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",
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"label": "inspection depth (source) — how much of the target the scan could see",
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"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",
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"caveats": [
"Tools were statically extracted from the published source (34 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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"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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"file": "src/scitex_scholar/_sphinx_html/_static/doctools.js",
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"title": "Shell/command execution in server code (src/scitex_scholar/_cli/gui.py)",
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"confidence": "strong",
"description": "In the server's implementation (`src/scitex_scholar/_cli/gui.py:107`): 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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"name": "src/scitex_scholar/_cli/gui.py"
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"evidence": "subprocess.Popen(",
"owasp": "LLM05:2025 Improper Output Handling",
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"file": "src/scitex_scholar/_cli/gui.py",
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"title": "Shell/command execution in server code (src/scitex_scholar/_cli/library.py)",
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"confidence": "strong",
"description": "In the server's implementation (`src/scitex_scholar/_cli/library.py:867`): 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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"name": "src/scitex_scholar/_cli/library.py"
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"title": "Shell/command execution in server code (src/scitex_scholar/_mcp/job_handlers.py)",
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"confidence": "strong",
"description": "In the server's implementation (`src/scitex_scholar/_mcp/job_handlers.py:33`): 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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"title": "Shell/command execution in server code (src/scitex_scholar/_utils/cleanup/_cleanup_scholar_processes.py)",
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"confidence": "strong",
"description": "In the server's implementation (`src/scitex_scholar/_utils/cleanup/_cleanup_scholar_processes.py:32`): 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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"confidence": "strong",
"description": "In the server's implementation (`src/scitex_scholar/browser/ScholarBrowserManager.py:274`): 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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"name": "src/scitex_scholar/browser/ScholarBrowserManager.py"
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"file": "src/scitex_scholar/browser/ScholarBrowserManager.py",
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"confidence": "strong",
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"name": "src/scitex_scholar/cli/handlers/project_handler.py"
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"confidence": "heuristic",
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