MCPScanner
MCPScanner is a command-line tool for analyzing MCP servers. It does the following:
- Discovers MCP Servers: It automatically searches for MCP server configuration files in well-known locations on the host system.
- Analyzes Tools and Resources: It connects to each discovered server to fetch the list of available tools and resources.
- Security Scanning with CrowdStrike AIDR: It uses the CrowdStrike AIDR service to scan the tools for malicious entities and prompts.
- Generates Reports: It creates a JSON report (default
mcpscanner.json) containing the analysis results. - Detects Changes: It can compare the current state of a server's tools with a previous report and display a diff if any changes are detected.
- Finds Similar Tools: It can identify tools with similar functionality.
Installation
pip install -U crowdstrike-aidr-mcpscanner
Configuration
Before using MCPScanner, you need to set the CS_AIDR_TOKEN environment
variable to a CrowdStrike AIDR API token and the CS_AIDR_BASE_URL_TEMPLATE
environment variable to the base URL of the CrowdStrike AIDR API.
export CS_AIDR_TOKEN="your_token_here"
export CS_AIDR_BASE_URL_TEMPLATE="https://api.crowdstrike.com/aidr/{SERVICE_NAME}"
Usage
The primary command is scan, which runs the analysis.
mcpscanner scan
Options
| Parameter | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
--input <PATH> |
The input file containing a previous report to compare against. | mcpscanner.json |
--output <PATH> |
The file where the new report will be saved. | mcpscanner.json |
--list-tools |
If set, the names of all tools for each MCP server will be listed in the output. | False |
--mcp-config-files <FILES> |
A list of files to discover MCP servers from. | A list of well-known paths for different operating systems. |
--similarity-threshold <FLOAT> |
The threshold (between 0.0 and 1.0) for two tools to be considered similar. | 0.96 |
--syntax-theme <THEME> |
The syntax theme to use for displaying JSON diffs. | github-dark |
--poll-result-timeout |
Timeout (seconds) for polling AIDR results. | 30 |
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