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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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