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Security of The Model Context Protocol Ecosystem: Emerging Threats, Empirical Attack Evidence, Trust and Authorization Failures, Supply-Chain Risks, And Defensive Strategies (Semantic Scholar)
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An evidence-informed review of the MCP security surface: trust boundaries, tool poisoning, privilege propagation, credential use, cross-tool exfiltration and supply-chain compromise. It leans on empirical results from 2025 and 2026.
In plain words
- Researchers reviewed how connecting artificial intelligence (AI) to outside tools can create security risks.
- These connections let AI use information and take actions in other services.
- The review examines how misleading tool descriptions can affect the AI's decisions.
- Developers using these connections face risks of stolen information or actions taken without proper permission.
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Oct 05, 2026 · in the sections
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