6. Resource Exhaustion & Abuse
6. Resource Exhaustion & Abuse
MCP servers that call heavy tools like nmap, masscan, or pdfparser can be abused to cause DoS. Abuse Payload: { “task”: “scan”, “targets”: [“10.0.0.0/8”], “scan_type”: “udp”, “threads”: 50000 } Impact:- CPU/memory spike
- Exhaustion of API quotas
- Log flooding or disk fill-up
- Use job queue with concurrency caps
- Timeout and memory limit per execution
- Auto-ban abusive tokens/IPs
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