ToolTrust
A2/100
ChanMeng666

server-google-news

mcp1.0.0

@ChanMeng666

【Star-crossed coders unite!⭐️】Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation providing Google News search capabilities via SerpAPI, with automatic news categorization and multi-language support.

By ChanMeng666 | 7 findings | Scanned 6/15/2026 | tooltrust-scanner/v0.3.17 | 124

1 Low6 Info

Risk Summary

Safe With Normal Controls

Secret Handling is the main signal, but overall risk remains within an acceptable range.

Potential impact: Sensitive credentials may be read, logged, or leaked to external systems.

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 (7)

  • LowAS-011

    ℹ️Missing Rate-Limit / Timeout

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

    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

    google_news_search:declared capabilities: network access

    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-010

    🔑Insecure Secret Handling ×4

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

    google_news_search

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

    google_news_search

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

    google_news_search

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

    google_news_search

    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.

  • InfoAS-014

    ℹ️Dependency Inventory Unavailable

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

    Fix: Review and remediate the identified issue.

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