⛔ Dangerous: avoid

Why: 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= 0, published 2026-08-20, not withdrawn; an OSV alias of MAL-2026-5484), was confirmed on the GitHub advisory API on 2026-10-19 (https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hrmj-jj6j-m2m2).

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

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

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

⚠ Security warnings

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.
Agents that run `npx mcp-server-sequential-thinking` expecting the official server get this package instead; use the scoped `@modelcontextprotocol/server-sequential-thinking`.

How we tested

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.. Tester: Checker 2. Date: 2026-10-19T11:20:00-07:00.

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-2026-5484 (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.

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-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.

Ranking in category

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Where it was found

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