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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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[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Still looks like nonsense.

Why would you blame MCP for skipping good sense and allowing a stranger to run a remote shell in your machine? Because your description of an MCP that can run any process without any limits is for all purposes a remote shell.

No one is blaming ssh if you publish your server's login and password on social media.

[–] setsubyou@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 2 months ago

Yep, and the article was vibe slopped as well