# Security Audit Finds RCE Risks in 6.2% of MCP Servers

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Podcast: [Cybersecurity Tech Brief By HackerNoon](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cybersecurity-tech-brief-by-hackernoon-6365646)
Published: 2026-05-06T16:01:58+00:00
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## Resource

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/security-audit-finds-rce-risks-in-62percent-of-mcp-servers . An automated security audit of 2,000+ MCP servers reveals that 6.2% expose LLMs to Remote Code Execution (RCE) and data exfiltration. Here is the full report. Check more stories related to cybersecurity at: https://hackernoon.com/c/cybersecurity . You can also check exclusive content about #ai-security , #ai-data-exfiltration , #mcp-security , #rce , #prompt-injection-attacks , #data-security , #agentic-ai-vulnerabilities , #ai-system-hardening , and more. This story was written by: @arseniibr . Learn more about this writer by checking @arseniibr's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . We audited over 2,000 open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and found that 6.2% contain critical architectural flaws. Developers are exposing dangerous tools like subprocess.run and raw SQL executors directly to LLMs without Human-in-the-Loop (HitL) confirmations. This turns a simple prompt injection into a full host Remote Code Execution (RCE) or database wipe. It's time to shift from wrapper scripts to Agentic DevSecOps.

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