ToolTrust
C40/100
Smithery

cyanheads-nhtsa-vehicle-mcp-server

mcpsmithery

@Smithery

Vehicle safety data from NHTSA — recalls, complaints, crash ratings, investigations, VIN decoding.

By Smithery | 18 findings | Scanned 6/3/2026 | tooltrust-scanner/v0.3.13

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Risk Summary

Needs Approval

Excessive Permissions plus Dep Visibility raises enough risk that this tool should not be auto-trusted.

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

Recommended action: Keep this tool behind manual approval and avoid unattended runs until the risky capabilities are narrowed or removed.

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

Security Findings (18)

  • HighAS-002

    ⚠️Excessive Permissions ×4

    tool declares network permission

    nhtsa_search_recallsnhtsa_search_complaintsnhtsa_search_investigations

    tool declares exec permission

    nhtsa_search_investigations

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

  • MediumAS-002

    ⚠️Excessive Permissions ×4

    tool declares fs permission

    nhtsa_get_vehicle_safetynhtsa_search_complaints

    tool declares db permission

    nhtsa_search_investigationsnhtsa_lookup_vehicles

    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 ×3

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

    nhtsa_search_recallsnhtsa_search_complaintsnhtsa_search_investigations

    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-014

    ℹ️Dependency Inventory Unavailable ×7

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

    nhtsa_get_vehicle_safetynhtsa_search_recallsnhtsa_search_complaintsnhtsa_get_safety_ratingsnhtsa_decode_vinnhtsa_search_investigationsnhtsa_lookup_vehicles

    Fix: Review and remediate the identified issue.

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