Tip: Audit MCP Servers Against the NSA CSI and a VIPER-Style Taint Scan Before Exposing Them
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Before publishing or installing an MCP server, check it against the NSA's CSI design considerations (unverified task propagation, inverted client-server trust, RCE exposure) and run a taint-style scan, since VIPER-MCP found 67 CVEs across ~40,000 repos. Concretely: block public IP access, require authentication, sandbox the server, and treat external MCP config as untrusted input. These are now table-stakes given how many remote servers ship unauthenticated.