ToolTrust
A4/100
brave

brave-search-mcp-server

mcp2.1.4

@brave

By brave | 27 findings | Scanned 10/26/2026 | tooltrust-scanner/v0.3.20 | 1.5k

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TypeScriptMITDeveloper Tools86.5k/mo npm downloadsLast scan Oct 26, 2026
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Risk Summary

Safe With Normal Controls

Excessive Permissions is the main signal, but overall risk remains within an acceptable range.

Potential impact: The agent may gain overly broad access to files, network, databases, or execution capabilities.

Recommended action: No high-risk findings were detected in this scan, but you should still apply least-privilege defaults and rescan after changes.

Suggested policy: keep this tool behind manual approval, do not allow unattended runs, and re-scan after narrowing risky permissions.

Security Findings (27)

  • LowAS-002

    ⚠️Excessive Permissions ×3

    input schema exposes 15 properties (threshold: 10)

    brave_web_search

    input schema exposes 14 properties (threshold: 10)

    brave_llm_context

    input schema exposes 13 properties (threshold: 10)

    brave_place_search

    Fix: Tool requests broad permissions (exec/fs/network). Validate input parameters using Enums where possible, and restrict file system operations to explicit allowed directories.

  • LowAS-011

    ℹ️Missing Rate-Limit / Timeout ×7

    tool performs network or execution operations but declares no rate-limit, timeout, or retry configuration

    brave_web_searchbrave_news_searchbrave_image_searchbrave_video_searchbrave_local_searchbrave_llm_contextbrave_place_search

    Fix: Declare explicit rate-limit, timeout, and retry configuration for all network and execution tools. Implement exponential back-off and surface resource state to the calling agent.

  • InfoAS-002

    ⚠️Excessive Permissions ×7

    declared capabilities: network access

    brave_web_searchbrave_news_searchbrave_image_searchbrave_video_searchbrave_llm_context

    declared capabilities: network access, database access

    brave_local_searchbrave_place_search

    Fix: Tool requests broad permissions (exec/fs/network). Validate input parameters using Enums where possible, and restrict file system operations to explicit allowed directories.

  • InfoAS-014

    ℹ️Dependency Inventory Unavailable ×8

    Tool did not expose metadata.dependencies or repo_url, so supply-chain coverage is limited.

    brave_web_searchbrave_news_searchbrave_image_searchbrave_video_searchbrave_local_searchbrave_llm_contextbrave_place_searchbrave_summarizer

    Fix: Review and remediate the identified issue.

  • InfoAS-010

    🔑Insecure Secret Handling ×2

    input parameter "maximum_number_of_tokens" accepts a credential (informational; not evidence of insecure handling)

    brave_llm_context

    input parameter "maximum_number_of_tokens_per_url" accepts a credential (informational; not evidence of insecure handling)

    brave_llm_context

    Fix: Avoid accepting raw credentials as input parameters. Use secret managers (e.g. 1Password CLI, AWS Secrets Manager) and ensure credentials are never logged or stored in agent traces.

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