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  "url": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/filesystem",
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  "works": "npm pack @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem 2.0.0 + install --ignore-scripts, Node 24.22.0, sandbox-run + unshare -rn, one allowed dir. SDK client: serverInfo secure-filesystem-server 2.0.0, 14 tools; client without Roots falls back to the CLI allow-list (stderr says so). Denied with 'Access denied': ../ inside an allowed path, a bare relative ../ path, absolute outside path, prefix sibling allowed_evil/ (the fixed GHSA-hc55 case), ~ expansion, a null-byte path, an absolute symlink to an outside file, a file reached through a symlinked outside dir, list_directory of that dir, write_file through the symlinked dir, write_file to an absolute outside path, create_directory outside, move_file out and move_file in, edit_file through a symlink, get_file_info on a symlink. read_multiple_files returned the allowed file and a per-path error for the others. %2e%2e is treated literally (ENOENT). On-disk check afterwards: outside secret unchanged, no new files or dirs outside.",
  "breaks": "1) Hard link limit: a hard link inside the allowed dir to an outside file was readable (C2_OUTSIDE_SECRET returned). Hard links can't be told apart from normal files by path, so creating one needs write access outside the server; note it for shared machines. 2) Misleading errors: a relative symlink sub/rel_link \u2192 ../outside/secret.txt returned 'Parent directory does not exist: \u2026/allowed/sub' (it exists), and write_file to a dangling symlink pointing outside returned 'Parent directory does not exist: \u2026/allowed'. Both were correctly blocked, but the message is wrong. 3) (confirms) newline-delimited JSON stdio framing. 4) The engines >=24 point does not apply on Node 24. Not tested: real MCP host, Roots list_changed, read_media_file.",
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  "test_method": "Checker2 second method: sandbox-run checker2 + unshare -rn; Node 24.22.0; official @modelcontextprotocol/sdk 1.32.1 client; fixtures in a scratch dir (allowed/, outside/, allowed_evil/, absolute/relative/dir/dangling symlinks, a hard link); 24 tool calls across read/list/write/edit/move/mkdir/search/tree/info/read_multiple; on-disk state checked afterwards. Output: a scratch dir.",
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    "status": "verified",
    "source": "README; outside paths denied at runtime"
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    "status": "verified",
    "source": "Hands-on npx/node launch"
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    "status": "broken",
    "source": "engines field; ran on Node 22.20.0 with EBADENGINE only"
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    "status": "verified",
    "source": "initialize + tools/list + tool calls"
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    "claim": "Roots can replace allow-list at runtime (2025-era)",
    "status": "unverified",
    "source": "README; not tested"
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    "status": "verified",
    "source": "24 escape/edge cases via the SDK client; only the hard-link case crossed"
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    "claim": "Fixed: path-prefix collision bypass (GHSA-hc55-p739-j48w) and symlink bypass (GHSA-q66q-fx2p-7w4m)",
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    "source": "allowed_evil sibling and symlink cases denied on 2.0.0"
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  "scoring_note": "Agree with full / 4. Second method: official MCP SDK client on Node 24 and 24 escape and edge cases (the original listed symlink escapes as unverified). Every path, prefix-collision and symlink escape was denied, and nothing outside the allowed dir was read, written, created or moved. The only content that crossed was through a hard link, which is a limit of path-based allow-lists, not a bypass of this server's checks. Two misleading error messages on symlink edge cases are cosmetic. Not a 5: no real MCP host. Stars/age not considered.",
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