Scanning 25,267 MCP servers found 73% vulnerable, 143.5K vulnerabilities
anacondainc · x · 2026-10-30
Anaconda, with Enkrypt AI, published a practical introduction to MCP security alongside a vulnerability scan dashboard: 25,267 MCP servers and 268.2K tools scanned, 143.5K vulnerabilities found (5.7 per server on average), 73.1% of servers vulnerable, 7% critical risk rate.
- Vulnerability types: path traversal 31.7%, resource exhaustion 24.5%, prompt injection 21%, code injection 8.1%, command injection 7.9%
- Severity: 62,736 high, 67,088 medium, 7,852 critical, 5,569 low
- The article explains MCP's Tools/Resources/Prompts building blocks (open-sourced by Anthropic in Nov 2024) and argues enterprises must govern every tool call; OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Block are all platinum members of the ecosystem
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