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MCP 'design flaw' puts 200k servers at risk and Anthropic won't fix it (www.theregister.com)

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A design flaw – or expected behavior based on a bad design choice, depending on who is telling the story – baked into Anthropic's official Model Context Protocol (MCP) puts as many as 200,000 servers at risk of complete takeover, according to security researchers.

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[-] setsubyou@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I personally wouldn’t blame MCP, it’s just a protocol. My theory is the feature was vibe coded in the vulnerable tools and nobody thought about it much.

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Yep, and the article was vibe slopped as well

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