ToolTrust
B15/100
IBM

mcp-context-forge

mcp1.0.10

@IBM

An AI Gateway, registry, and proxy that sits in front of any MCP, A2A, or REST/gRPC APIs, exposing a unified endpoint with centralized discovery, guardrails and management. Optimizes Agent & Tool calling, and supports plugins.

By IBM | 22 findings | Scanned 9/14/2026 | tooltrust-scanner/v0.3.19 | 4.5k

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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 (22)

  • HighAS-012

    🔄Tool Drift

    Tool set changed silently at v1.0.10: 8 tool(s) added, 2 tool(s) removed without a version bump.

    + 8 added

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    − 2 removed

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    Fix: The set of tools exposed by this server changed between scans of the same version — a sign the package was silently updated without a version bump. Audit the changelog and all tool definitions before trusting this server. Pin to a specific commit hash rather than a floating version tag.

  • LowAS-011

    ℹī¸Missing Rate-Limit / Timeout ×2

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

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    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.

  • LowAS-002

    ⚠ī¸Excessive Permissions ×3

    input schema exposes 15 properties (threshold: 10)

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    input schema exposes 16 properties (threshold: 10)

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    input schema exposes 19 properties (threshold: 10)

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    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-002

    ⚠ī¸Excessive Permissions ×8

    declared capabilities: network access, filesystem access

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    declared capabilities: filesystem access

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    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

    ℹī¸Dependency Inventory Unavailable ×8

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

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    Fix: Review and remediate the identified issue.

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