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  "name": "mcp-server-sequential-thinking (npm, malware)",
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  "status": "dangerous",
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  "quality_scale": 5,
  "works": "Nothing tested. Do not install or run it.",
  "breaks": "Malicious name-squat. Per OSV MAL-2026-5484 (Amazon Inspector analysis, credited to OpenSSF malicious-packages), package.json runs `node index.js` on postinstall and maps the bin to index.js, so both `npm install` and `npx mcp-server-sequential-thinking` run it. index.js unconditionally POSTs os.hostname(), process.cwd(), the npm user-agent, Node version and os.platform()/arch to https://npx-canary-log.vulnerable-live.workers.dev/log, with a `trigger` field distinguishing install vs npx runs. The README frames it as 'canary' research, but installers don't consent. GitHub GHSA-w69h-vf37-j4w6 rates it critical malware (CWE-506) for 0.0.1 and 0.0.2 and advises treating any machine that installed it as compromised and rotating secrets. Same endpoint as the npm mcp-server-fetch squat.",
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  "test_method": "Advisory review only: fetched https://api.github.com/advisories/GHSA-w69h-vf37-j4w6 and queried api.osv.dev for npm mcp-server-sequential-thinking (MAL-2026-5484, aliases GHSA-hrmj-jj6j-m2m2, GHSA-w69h-vf37-j4w6). Package never installed, downloaded or executed.",
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  "tool_version_tested": "not tested; advisories cover 0.0.1 and 0.0.2",
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  "scoring_note": "Not installed, downloaded or run, by design. This is the unscoped npm package `mcp-server-sequential-thinking`, impersonating the official scoped @modelcontextprotocol/server-sequential-thinking, which is listed separately as sequential-thinking-mcp. Verdict comes only from public advisories read via the GitHub advisory and OSV 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.",
   "Agents that run `npx mcp-server-sequential-thinking` expecting the official server get this package instead; use the scoped `@modelcontextprotocol/server-sequential-thinking`."
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   "reason": "Name-squat of the Sequential Thinking MCP server; install/npx beacons host identifiers to a third-party endpoint (GHSA-w69h-vf37-j4w6, MAL-2026-5484). Evidence: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w69h-vf37-j4w6 and https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-5484. Use the scoped @modelcontextprotocol/server-sequential-thinking instead. A second GitHub-reviewed malware advisory, GHSA-hrmj-jj6j-m2m2 (critical, all versions >= 0, published 2026-08-20, not withdrawn; an OSV alias of MAL-2026-5484), was confirmed on the GitHub advisory API on 2026-10-19 (https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hrmj-jj6j-m2m2)."
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