2. Privilege Escalation via Misconfigured Shell Wrappers
2. Privilege Escalation via Misconfigured Shell Wrappers
Attack: An MCP server uses a wrapper script that unintentionally runs with escalated permissions or accesses system-level files. Scenario: A pdf_parser agent allows reading from any file path: {“task”: “parse”, “file_path”: “/etc/shadow”} Mitigation:- Use scoped working directories
- Enforce file access policies
- Run in non-root containers with strict mount controls
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