awesome-mcp-security
by Puliczek
🔥🔒 Awesome MCP (Model Context Protocol) Security 🖥️
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Everything you need to know about Model Context Protocol (MCP) security.
Table of Contents
📔 Security Considerations
Official Security Considerations from the Official MCP Specification Rev: 2025-03-26
[!NOTE] 15.04.2025: The current MCP auth specification is in progress of being replaced by a more robust specification. Please join the conversation if you have concerns around the current auth specification.
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Servers MUST:
- Validate all tool inputs
- Implement proper access controls
- Rate limit tool invocations
- Sanitize tool outputs
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Clients SHOULD:
- Prompt for user confirmation on sensitive operations
- Show tool inputs to the user before calling the server, to avoid malicious or accidental data exfiltration
- Validate tool results before passing to LLM
- Implement timeouts for tool calls
- Log tool usage for audit purposes
[!WARNING]
For trust & safety and security, clients MUST consider tool annotations to be untrusted unless they come from trusted servers.
[!WARNING]
For trust & safety and security, there SHOULD always be a human in the loop* with the ability to deny tool invocations.Applications SHOULD:
- Provide UI that makes clear which tools are being exposed to the AI model.
- Insert clear visual indicators when tools are invoked.
- Present confirmation prompts to the user for operations, to ensure a human is in the loop.
[!NOTE]
*Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) means that user help monitor and guide automated tasks, like deciding whether to accept tool requests in Cursor.
📃 Papers
- (2025-08) Systematic Analysis of MCP Security
- (2025-05) Beyond the Protocol: Unveiling Attack Vectors in the Model Context Protocol Ecosystem
- (2025-05) Enterprise-Grade Security for the Model Context Protocol (MCP): Frameworks and Mitigation Strategies
- (2025-04) Simplified and Secure MCP Gateways for Enterprise AI Integration by Ivo Brett
- (2025-04) [MCP Guardian: A Security-First Layer for Safeguarding MCP-Based AI Syste...