Agentic AI's Risky MCP Backbone Opens Brand-New Attack Vectors
ID: 15be1e27-dac9-54d5-ba52-529884a60e89
STIX ID: report--15be1e27-dac9-54d5-ba52-529884a60e89
Feed Name: Dark Reading
Threat Score
Two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities were disclosed in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem—CVE-2025-49596 in Anthropic's MCP Inspector and CVE-2025-6514 in the open-source mcp-remote proxy—both enabling attackers to execute arbitrary code on developer workstations or clients; fixes and version updates have been published but widespread misconfigurations and leaked secrets across thousands of MCP servers increase exposure.
Your team is not currently subscribed to this feed. You must subscribe to it in order to see this post.