ToolTrust
A2/100
mikechao

mikechao-brave-search-mcp

mcp2.1.0

@mikechao

An MCP Server implementation that integrates the Brave Search API, providing, Web Search, Local Points of Interest Search, Image Search, Video Search, News Search and LLM Context Search capabilities

By mikechao | 15 findings | Scanned 6/22/2026 | tooltrust-scanner/v0.3.19 | 115

5 Low10 Info

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 (15)

  • LowAS-011

    ℹ️Missing Rate-Limit / Timeout ×5

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

    brave_web_searchbrave_image_searchbrave_news_searchbrave_local_searchbrave_video_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 ×5

    declared capabilities: code/command execution, network access

    brave_web_search

    declared capabilities: network access, database access

    brave_image_search

    declared capabilities: network access

    brave_news_searchbrave_video_search

    declared capabilities: network access, HTTP requests

    brave_local_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 ×5

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

    brave_web_searchbrave_image_searchbrave_news_searchbrave_local_searchbrave_video_search

    Fix: Review and remediate the identified issue.

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