Twelvetake Gimp Studio — the complete, unedited output of the deterministic mcptrustchecker engine v1.7.0, scanned . Every finding, capability tag and score component below is exactly what the engine produced — no AI, no post-processing.
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"Tools were statically extracted from the published source (119 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": "Reads a sensitive credential path or dumps the environment (src/gimp_mcp/bridge/launcher.py)",
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"description": "In the server's implementation (`src/gimp_mcp/bridge/launcher.py:123`): Reading private keys / cloud credentials, or serializing the whole environment, is a sensitive-data source that becomes exfiltration when combined with any egress. 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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"description": "Tool \"gimp_exec\" appears to run shell commands or evaluate code (keyword \"exec\"). 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.",
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"title": "Shell/command execution in server code (src/gimp_mcp/bridge/client.py)",
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"severity": "high",
"confidence": "strong",
"description": "In the server's implementation (`src/gimp_mcp/bridge/client.py:126`): 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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"title": "Shell/command execution in server code (src/gimp_mcp/bridge/gimp_side.py)",
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"severity": "high",
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"description": "In the server's implementation (`src/gimp_mcp/bridge/gimp_side.py:134`): 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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"description": "In the server's implementation (`src/gimp_mcp/bridge/launcher.py:132`): 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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