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Show HN: We scanned 23 public MCP servers for CVEs - Here is what broke
With tens of thousands of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers published in 2026, AI agents now have direct execution bridges to local terminals, filesystems, and production databases.
Following 30+ CVE disclosures against MCP tools in early 2026 alone (including CVSS 9.4+ RCEs), verifying the security of MCP servers before plugging them into Claude Desktop, Cursor, or autonomous agent runtimes has become critical.
However, existing scanning approaches suffer from two fatal flaws:
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