mcpwatch@0.1.0
VERIFIED· not startedPublisher claims: "Security scanner for MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers — locally, no phone-home" Observed in sandbox: no network, touches nothing outside the project, writes no memory.
Coverage
Not started: dependency install failed; the server itself was not observed.- Tested
- the dependency install step · every file read, file written and host contacted by what ran
- Not tested
- server startup · the tool list · tool behavior
What this means for the label: Verified here covers what ran. The server's tools were not exercised with a real credential, so nothing about their behavior is asserted; the credential summary below says what to do with that.
Before you give it your token
- It will ask for
GITHUB_TOKEN- Where it talks to
- no vendor host named in the codeAlso githubusercontent.com — not the publisher's domain; check what for before connecting.
- What the honeypot saw
- no credential files read · no network
- What we could not test
- server startup · the tool list · tool behavior
Connect it with a scoped credential, under the guard, and read the third-party hosts first. The code names githubusercontent.com as well as its own vendor. The guard injects GITHUB_TOKEN only into requests to the host you bind (and its subdomains) and refuses the rest.
Never paste a credential into a chat, a ticket or a report, including ours. How the guard holds it.
Is [email protected] safe to install?
KillerSkills ran it in the KillerSkills honeypot sandbox (2 scenarios; not started: dependency install failed; the server itself was not observed) on 2026-11-11 and scored it 87/100 (Verified). In what ran, nothing we could detect went wrong: no undeclared network egress, no credential reads, no persistent instruction writes. What it does with a real credential was not observed; the static findings and the publisher carry the rest of the score. Summary: no network, touches nothing outside the project, writes no memory.
Behavior trace
Honeypot run · 0 s · 2 scenarios · 0 deviationsStatic findings
return subprocess.check_output(cmd, shell=True, text=True)Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.subprocess.Popen(self.command, shell=True, ...) where self.command is builtFix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.result = subprocess.run(Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.result = subprocess.run("uptime", shell=True, capture_output=True, text=True)Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.subprocess.run(["rmdir", "/s", "/q", str(dest)], shell=True, capture_output=True)Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.return subprocess.check_output(command, shell=True, text=True)Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.result = subprocess.run(command, shell=True, capture_output=True, text=True)Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.# FIXTURE: vulnerable — os.system() with a variable command (always uses shell).Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments; do not interpolate untrusted strings into a shell.os.system(cmd)Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments; do not interpolate untrusted strings into a shell.# subprocess.run(command, shell=True)Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.result = subprocess.run(Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out."""os.system(variable) must fire — shell is always invoked."""Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments; do not interpolate untrusted strings into a shell."""subprocess.run('uptime', shell=True) with a literal must NOT fire."""Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out."""subprocess.run(f-string, shell=True) must fire."""Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out."""subprocess.run(['nmap', target]) without shell=True must NOT fire."""Fix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.Cost to the agent
Tokens estimated at four characters each. The tool list is re-read by the agent on every turn, so it is the number to compare between servers that do the same job: ranked across the index.
Known vulnerabilities
No advisories in OSV for mcpwatch@0.1.0 as of 3d ago. This is the package itself, not its dependencies.