⛔ Dangerous: avoid

Why: 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second GitHub-reviewed malware advisory, GHSA-88f3-qjxp-rpp3 (critical, = 0.0.1 and = 0.0.2, published 2026-07-27, not withdrawn), was confirmed on the GitHub advisory API on 2026-10-19 (https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-88f3-qjxp-rpp3).

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Check other package names before installing: Known malware look-alikes (npm and PyPI packages that squat MCP server and agent tool names).

mcp-server-fetch (npm, malware) ⛔ Dangerous: avoid

· Tool address (not linked on purpose): hxxps://www.npmjs.com/package/mcp-server-fetch

⚠ Security warning

Found during our hands-on test. Read before letting an agent use this tool unattended.

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.

How we tested

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.. Tester: Checker 2. Date: 2026-10-19T10:35:00-07:00.

Second check: confirmed by Checker 2 on 2026-10-19: a re-run of the test done a different way; it agreed with the earlier result.

Test log (from our notes)

What works

Nothing tested. Do not install or run it.

What 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.

Release claims checked

No release-note claims checked yet.

Test history

No prior results — this is the first recorded test.

Quality score

not scored — our hands-on rating on a 1–5 scale, scored by the published rubric.

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.

Ranking in category

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Where it was found

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