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  "name": "mcp-server-fetch (npm, malware)",
  "url": "https://www.npmjs.com/package/mcp-server-fetch",
  "status": "dangerous",
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  "works": "Nothing tested. Do not install or run it.",
  "breaks": "Malicious name-squat. Per OSV MAL-2026-5476 (Amazon Inspector analysis), package.json runs `node index.js` on postinstall, and index.js is also main and bin, so it fires on `npm install`, `require()` and `npx mcp-server-fetch`. It POSTs os.hostname(), process.cwd(), the npm user-agent, process.version and os.platform() to hxxps://npx-canary-log.vulnerable-live.workers[.]dev/log (defanged) and silently swallows errors. Its README calls it a 'security research canary', but it beacons host identifiers off-machine without consent. GitHub GHSA-rh9p-4pg3-8628 rates it critical malware (CWE-506) for all versions (>= 0) and advises treating any machine that installed it as compromised and rotating secrets.",
  "last_tested": "2026-10-19T10:35:00-07:00",
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  "test_method": "Advisory review only: fetched https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-5476 and https://api.github.com/advisories/GHSA-rh9p-4pg3-8628. Package never installed, downloaded or executed.",
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  "tool_version_tested": "not tested; advisories cover 0.0.1 and 0.0.2 (GHSA: all versions)",
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  "scoring_note": "Not installed, downloaded or run, by design. This is the unscoped npm package `mcp-server-fetch`, which squats the name of the real Fetch MCP server. The real server is the PyPI package `mcp-server-fetch` (run with uvx/pip) and is listed separately as fetch-mcp-server. Verdict comes only from public advisories, read via the OSV and GitHub advisory APIs on 2026-10-19. Quality is null because the tool was deliberately not tested.",
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   "Agents that run `npx mcp-server-fetch` expecting the official Fetch MCP server get this package instead; install the PyPI `mcp-server-fetch` with uvx or pip."
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   "reason": "Name-squat of the fetch MCP server; install/npx beacons host identifiers to a third-party endpoint (GHSA-rh9p-4pg3-8628, MAL-2026-5476). Evidence: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rh9p-4pg3-8628 and https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-5476. Use the PyPI mcp-server-fetch instead. A second GitHub-reviewed malware advisory, GHSA-88f3-qjxp-rpp3 (critical, = 0.0.1 and = 0.0.2, published 2026-07-27, not withdrawn), was confirmed on the GitHub advisory API on 2026-10-19 (https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-88f3-qjxp-rpp3)."
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   "outcome": "confirmed",
   "by": "Checker 2",
   "tested": "2026-10-19T10:35:00-07:00"
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