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A4/100
cyanheads

cyanheads-pubmed-mcp-server

mcp2.10.2

@cyanheads

Search PubMed/Europe PMC, fetch articles and full text (PMC/EPMC/Unpaywall), citations, MeSH terms via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.

By cyanheads | 17 findings | Scanned 7/28/2026 | tooltrust-scanner/v0.3.19 | 126

4 Low13 Info

Risk Summary

Safe With Normal Controls

Dep Visibility is the main signal, but overall risk remains within an acceptable range.

Potential impact: This finding indicates the tool should be reviewed before it is trusted.

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 (17)

  • LowAS-002

    ⚠️Excessive Permissions

    pubmed_search_articles:input schema exposes 14 properties (threshold: 10)

    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

    pubmed_search_articlespubmed_fetch_articlespubmed_fetch_fulltext

    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 ×4

    declared capabilities: network access, database access

    pubmed_search_articles

    declared capabilities: network access

    pubmed_fetch_articlespubmed_fetch_fulltext

    declared capabilities: database access

    pubmed_spell_check

    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 ×9

    No metadata.dependencies or repo_url were exposed by this MCP server, and no local project manifest could be inferred from the launch command.

    pubmed_search_articlespubmed_fetch_articlespubmed_fetch_fulltextpubmed_format_citationspubmed_find_relatedpubmed_spell_checkpubmed_lookup_meshpubmed_lookup_citationpubmed_convert_ids

    Fix: Review and remediate the identified issue.

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